In a posting Tuesday, Facebook announced an entity called The Oversight Board to give users a way to appeal Facebook’s decisions regarding content posted on Facebook or the Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform, Instagram.
The creation of the board comes as Facebook and other social media giants have been accused of censo
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Now Instagram's just rubbing it in.
In case the Facebook-owned company hadn't already made it abundantly clear that burying Snapchat under an endlessly growing pile of lookalike products was its top priority, Instagram has some fresh salt to rub into Snap's wounds: Instagram Stories now has 200 million daily active users — more than Snapchat's total daily active user base.
Put another way: In 2017 alone Instagram has added nearly as many daily
WhatsApp founders Brian Acton and Jan Koum at their headquarters in Mountain View. (PHOTO CREDIT: Robert Gallagher for Forbes)
Facebook says it has wrapped up its landmark $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp, a deal that was hashed out in Mark Zuckerberg’s house over the course of a few days in February and sealed over a bottle of Jonnie Walker scotch.
WhatsApp has continued to run its operation completely independently since then, but the closing of the deal marks the start of a gradual int
Facebook and WhatsApp icons (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg)
Facebook Inc. (FB) won European Union antitrust approval to buy messaging service WhatsApp Inc. for about $19 billion, its biggest acquisition to date.
The European Commission cleared the deal without seeking any concessions, saying a careful review showed the two businesses aren’t close competitors and consumers will continue to have a wide choice of communications apps.
“While Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp are two of the most popula
Protesters in Ferguson, Mo. (Photograph by Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images)
The weeks of late summer are usually devoid of major news. Not this year. The Aug. 9 slaying of unarmed teenager Mike Brown by police in Ferguson, Mo., has led to a week of protests, arrests, and the deployment of the National Guard.
At the same time, but seemingly in a different universe, there’s the “ice bucket challenge,” a series of videos in which celebrities and other people indicate their support of fighting AL
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook, at its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. (Noah Berger | Bloomberg | Getty Images)
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg blasted the U.S. government’s electronic surveillance practices on Thursday, saying he’d personally called President Obama to voice his displeasure.
“When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we’re protecting you against criminals, not our own government,” Zuckerberg said in a post
Erica Campbell has come under attack by many of her loyal fans for her recent photo-shoot cover of her upcoming album. Being released in March 2014, Erica Campbell one-half of Mary Mary announced last year she was launching a solo career. A preacher on Facebook wrote
“THIS IS NOT OKAY. Yes, you are a beautiful, curvy woman…but NO MA’AM YOU ARE SINGING THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. Saints…smh COME ON.”
Although Twitter and Facebook has had a lot of negative to say about the cover photo, so
Rovio CEO Mikael Hed says the immensely popular Angry Birds game is coming to Facebook next month with “completely new aspects to it that just haven’t been experienced in any other platform.”
According to All Facebook, Hed used the word “collaborative” to describe aspects of the game, adding that “the pigs will have a more prominent role.”
Take a look at the Angry Birds page on Facebook, and you’ll see that something is up. If you “like” the page, Rovio promises to keep you posted on all the lat
Following word yesterday about an HTC-made, Android-packing Facebook phone, more hot gossip about a blower built for the world’s favourite social network has hit the web.
A tipster has spilled the beans to the chaps at BGR, delivering deets on just what we can expect when a Facebook phone does get the official nod. And it’s all about using the cloud and your location.
The Facebook phone is unlikely to have any local storage,
One of the most important aspect of any person’s Facebook profile is the photo that is displayed on the left corner side of a page – also called asFacebook profile pic. Now, if you have updated your Facebook profile page, you must have seen the change. If you haven’t updated it yet, check this link to get newly revamped Facebook profile page.
The new Facebook profile page can now accommodate six images and some people are taking advantage to show some serious creativity and redesigning their F
