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Facebook lets you wish contacts a happy birthday with Stories

Facebook on Thursday revealed a new Stories feature that helps users celebrate birthdays on the platform. According to the company, birthday stories are “a…

F8: These are the updates coming to Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger

Among the many Facebook updates announced at the F8 conference this week, Facebook also revealed updates for Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram. Facebook Messenger Facebook…

A huge redesign, ‘Secret Crushes’, and all the new things coming to Facebook soon

At Facebook’s F8 conference this week, the company announced a host of new features coming to its family of apps. For the platform itself…

Facebook is preparing parties and users for South Africa’s 2019 elections

We’re little over two weeks away from casting our ballots, and Facebook is getting ready for South Africa’s 2019 National Elections. The social network…

Facebook Messenger’s dark mode is now available globally

Facebook has officially launched the dark mode feature for Messenger worldwide. Users across the globe can now activate the mode to experience the app…

Update: WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook down in South Africa

Update, Monday 10am: WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger and Instagram are now all functional once more for us. Update, Sunday 2pm: It seems that Instagram’s back,…

Messenger’s chat feature could be returning to the Facebook app

Remember the infant days of Facebook, when Messenger was a part of the company’s primary app? The company then split these two features into…

Facebook sees you when you’re creeping, rewards you with repeat content

Will Facebook ever stop trying to be the absolute creepiest it can be? Probably not. In a small update issued to the News Feed this…

Messenger doubled its real-time video chats to 17b in 2017

Facebook Messenger has had a pretty interesting 2017, despite some embarrassing mistakes like that Stories clone “Day” no one used. According to the company,…

New Facebook tool will tell if you liked Russian propaganda

Now that Facebook has acquiesced to the demands of US Congress and handed over its data, the company is focussing on helping those who were tricked by…

Facebook Creator app launches on iOS

Facebook has taken a leaf out of YouTube’s book and launched an app and website specifically geared towards “creators” (people who post videos to…

Facebook Stories and Messenger Day are now the same thing

Messenger Day — the Facebook Messenger version of WhatsApp Status and Instagram Stories — is no more. Instead, the feature has been rehashed and…

Russia to ban Facebook if it doesn’t comply with data storage laws

Russian communications regulator Roskomnadzor will check to see if Facebook is abiding by a Russian data storage law — and the result may lead to the company…

Facebook suggests users upload nudes to avoid revenge porn

Worried that an abusive ex may upload intimate images of you to social media? Facebook may have a solution for you, though maybe not in…

Facebook evens the playing field by discontinuing ‘dark posts’

At the end of October, Facebook broke the news that it planned to introduce a new advertising feature that would lead to any paid…

Facebook has more duplicate accounts than Snapchat has users

Facebook’s userbase is a curious number. Not only is it the largest of any social network on the planet at 2.07-billion users per month,…

Facebook’s AI led to the wrongful arrest of a Palestinian man

Facebook has been touting its artificial-intelligence services as a way to quickly identify those promoting terrorist content on the platform, but not all of these…

Don’t expect a separate Facebook tab for friends’ posts any time soon

Facebook has been testing a feature that separates friends’ posts from public pages’ in six countries, but it says there are no current plans to…

Videos of little girl robbing women in Cape Town goes viral on Facebook

Two videos of a little girl coerced into stealing items from shoppers’ handbags in Cape Town have gone viral on Facebook. Published on 19…

US customers can now order food through Facebook

If you’re too lazy to visit a restaurant, or even open your favourite food ordering app, Facebook now lets you place orders for delivery…

Facebook execs to get ‘candid’ about ‘hard questions’ in live interviews

Facebook executives are gearing up to “push [themselves] toward even greater transparency” in a series of live interviews with digital news site Axios. As part…

Yes, Facebook and Instagram are down for some users

Facebook and Instagram users across the world are today experiencing connectivity issues. Reports from users on Twitter and websites like DownDetector and Outage Report…

Zuckerberg promotes VR with footage of disaster-stricken Puerto Rico

Mark Zuckerberg has made some pretty tone-deaf moves in his time. Earlier this month, the Facebook CEO implied that people upset about Russian propaganda were as…

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