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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…

Facebook to add info on news articles in the hopes you start re-trusting the media

US President Donald Trump and his administration have made it their mission to sow a distrust for the media throughout the US — and the…

Russian propaganda ads reached 10m US Facebook users

Facebook has revealed that 10-million US users were shown Russian propaganda ads that may have interfered with the 2016 US election — and that…

Twitter addresses Russian bots as Zuck faces the web’s wrath

Twitter has finally broken its silence on the role its platform played in enabling Russian interference in the 2016 US election, but it’s staying…

Instagram ‘advertises’ itself on Facebook with rape threats

Instagram has come under fire for advertising itself on parent company Facebook’s platform with a screenshot of an email that read “I will rape…

Russian Facebook pages may have organised pro-Trump rallies

Suspected Russian Facebook page Being Patriotic organised pro-Trump and anti-Clinton rallies in the build-up to the 2016 US election, The Daily Beast has found. On 20…

Facebook to reward small business advertisers in 2016 Facebook Awards

Facebook on Tuesday announced that entries are open for the 2016 Facebook Awards. The awards, now in their fifth year, are designed to celebrate…

Mark Zuckerberg’s New Year’s resolution is to build his own Jarvis-style personal assistant

The beginning of the year, amongst other things, means making New Year’s resolutions. Mark Zuckerberg, known for setting himself some difficult goals, has come…

Paris, Pluto, #BlackLivesMatter: Facebook’s 2015 year in review

Facebook has released its 2015 year in review, with the upcoming US presidential elections, the recent terror attacks in Paris, and the ongoing Syrian…

Cricket South Africa Facebook page hacked, flooded with softcore porn

On Tuesday night, South African cricket fans looking for updates from Cricket South Africa (CSA) got more than they bargained for. Rather than the…

What does Facebook Pixel mean for Marketing (and Google Analytics)?

I run a Digital Agency where, among other things, we manage our client’s social media marketing. As I was running an ad for one…

Facebook introduces live video streaming, photo collages features

Facebook has introduced its own live video and photo collages features to take on the likes of Periscope and Meerkat. The social media giant…

Mark Zuckerberg explains $45b pledge following skepticism

Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO and co-founder, and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan, announced that Zuckerberg was going to donate 99% of…

Zuckerbaby parody open letter is all kinds of awesome

This week, the world has been celebrating the birth of Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s daughter Max. The couple also achieved massive kudos from…

Mark Zuckerberg to donate 99% of his Facebook shares to ‘advance human potential’

Facebook CEO an co-founder Mark Zuckerberg plans to cash in 99% of his Facebook shares to “advance human potential and promote equality for all…

Facebook’s Internet.org, Praekelt Foundation team up to launch Free Basics incubator

Facebook’s Internet.org on Monday announced a partnership with the Praekelt foundation that will see the two launch an incubator for the Free Basics platform….

Facebook introduces Notify, an iOS app that pushes notifications to locked screens from publishers

Facebook has released yet another app, this time aimed at pushing notifications from a user’s preferred content sources to their mobile screen. Notify is…

Facebook Results: social network crushes Q3 as WhatsApp nears a billion users

Facebook on Wednesday announced its Q3 results and while they were financially impressive — revenue for the quarter was up 45% on the same…

Facebook thinks its AI could do amazing things for blind people

There are plenty of very clever people out there, Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking among them, who think that artificial intelligence could be a…

Facebook revamps notification tab, makes it more Google Now card-ish

Facebook has announced that starting today, Android and iOS users in the US will see an updated Notifications tab. The new notification tab has…

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