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Facebook is testing a new Instagram app called ‘Threads’

A new messaging app called Threads is being developed by Facebook and planned for Instagram, a report by The Verge revealed on Monday. According…

Off-Facebook Activity will help you manage Facebook ad targeting

Facebook on Tuesday launched a new feature to help users see and manage their activity information third-parties share with the platform. “Off-Facebook Activity lets…

Facebook Group privacy settings are now a lot less confusing

Facebook on Wednesday announced the rollout of simplified Group settings to help users better understand their privacy on the platform It’s now condensing the…

Facebook can now fact-check news in African languages

Facebook on Wednesday announced a partnership with fact-checking company Africa Check to bring local African language support to its third-party Fact-Checking programme. The programme…

Facebook had real people transcribing your Messenger audio messages

Facebook is joining the list of companies that have been exposed for using real people to do jobs better suited for artificial intelligence. A…

Create your own Instagram AR effects with this new Facebook app

Now you can make your own AR camera effects and publish them on Instagram thanks to Facebook’s Spark AR, a new app the company…

Facebook is working on a dark mode for its mobile app

Jane Manchun Wong is at it again. After leaking Twitter’s upcoming Snooze button, the feature leaker on Tuesday revealed that Facebook is working on…

Fb.gg: Facebook’s game streaming portal to rival Twitch is now live

Facebook today debuted its own game streaming portal dubbed Fb.gg, in a bit to compete with Microsoft’s Mixer, Google’s YouTube Gaming and Amazon’s Twitch….

It’s 2018, and fake Facebook sites are still fooling people online

People are still falling for fake sites pretending to be Facebook, research from Kaspersky Labs suggests. In 2018 thus far, the Russian security company…

Report: yet another Facebook app leaked personal info of 3m people

Are you still taking personality tests on Facebook? Stop. Actually, throw your computer out the window and set it on fire, because you should…

‘Around 200’ apps banned thus far in Facebook’s massive app audit

Earlier this year and in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg suggested that a host of apps prior to…

Facebook’s turning itself into a covert dating website

Facebook wants to become that dating site your grandparents can be comfortable using. In an announcement that seemingly no one expected, Facebook’s aimed a…

Facebook’s adding AR and translation tools to Messenger

It’s F8 week, and that means plenty of Facebook news. The company’s annual developer conference is also pretty important for users of the social…

2.2bn people now access Facebook on a monthly basis

Facebook remains the largest country on the planet in terms of monthly active users. This after it released its user figures and financial balance…

Affected by the Cambridge Analytica data scandal? You’ll know today

Brace yourselves if you plan to login to Facebook today, because you might be in for an uncomfortable surprise. The social network announced that…

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is deleting his Facebook account

What does WhatsApp’s co-founder Brian Acton, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Playboy’s CEO Cooper Hefner, and now Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak all have…

You can now send and receive 360 degree video and pics in Facebook Messenger

If you’re still using Facebook Messenger, you can now send 360 degree photos and videos — in addition to 720p video — from the…

Too little too late? Facebook tweaks its Privacy Settings, adds ‘Access Your Information’ page

The sleeping social media giant has finally woken up. After offering users lip-service through its nightmarish past two weeks, Facebook is now physically addressing…

Facebook’s ‘local news’ timeline tweak is now live globally

Facebook wants you to forget about its woes just for a moment, and remind everyone that people do in fact still use it. Notably,…

How to download your Facebook data (and why you should)

It’s the F-word you’ve been hearing an awful lot of this week, and its one everyone should be using. Yes, Facebook. Please forgive me…

Facebook ‘clarifies’ creepy call, text logging claims

After the Cambridge Analytica scandal piqued public panic last week, Facebook is again coming under fire for another user data issue. After the above…

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