Your tax software may have shared your financial data with Facebook
If you have been using an online tax preparation website to file your income taxes, you might have had your information packaged up and sent …
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Facebook has a secret tool to delete your phone number from its database
Chances are that if you have a Facebook account, then Facebook’s parent company Meta has your contact information. Even if you chose not to share …
Facebook was making people feel like crap from the very beginning, new study reveals
Heading into the third-quarter earnings report that’s coming on Wednesday from Meta — the parent company whose holdings include the Facebook app as well as …
WhatsApp is down in a major outage
WhatsApp is one of the most popular chat apps, with about 2 billion users relying on it to exchange messages with their friends and family …
Facebook Groups adds Reels support, new communication features
During Facebook’s 6th Communities Summit, Meta announced new features coming to Facebook Groups such as the ability to add Reels to these pages as well …
Mark Zuckerberg takes a bizarre jab at Apple’s AR/VR headset
Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg have been throwing jabs at each other ever since Apple, with iOS 14.5, introduced its App Tracking Transparency feature. The …
Facebook found 400 malicious apps that steal your login – here’s how to protect yourself
In a blog post, Meta says that more than 400 malicious Android and iOS apps that tried to steal people’s Facebook login credentials in 2022 …
Watching Meta under Zuckerberg feels like reliving my days in the flailing newspaper business
A manic obsession with ads, shoving them in the face of users at every turn. Chasing relevance, instead of earning it. Flinging half-baked new features …
Facebook Feed adds ‘Show More’ and ‘Show Less’ customization options
Meta wants to revive the old Facebook days. After switching the news feed to prioritize Pages, ads, and posts its users aren’t interested to interact …
Instagram’s latest innovation: More ads
Instagram is in the middle of an existential crisis as its parent-company Meta has been seeing revenue decline due to Apple’s App Tracking Transparency policy …
WhatsApp will soon let you block screenshots of ‘View Once’ messages
Last year, WhatsApp added disappearing photos and videos to chats. Copying a trend from Snapchat – and other Meta-owned apps –, the application would only …
Meta sued for evading Apple’s privacy rules to track iPhone users
Facebook owner Meta is once again under fire, this time for allegedly building a workaround to Apple’s recent privacy rules. Bloomberg reported that two Facebook …
Facebook might lift Trump’s suspension in January, just in time for the 2024 election
After suspending President Trump from Facebook and Instagram back in 2021, following the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol complex, the social media giant …
Meta testing stronger Facebook Messenger encryption after Nebraska abortion case
Facebook parent company Meta on Thursday announced that it’s testing a new feature whereby users can back up end-to-end encrypted chats in Facebook Messenger. Additionally, …
Believe it or not, there’s one thing Facebook does way better than Apple
The last few weeks and months have brought into stark relief the degree to which Facebook parent Meta and Apple are engaged in something of …
Should Facebook worry about some users ‘starting to get tired of it’?
While Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook parent company Meta, has been proselytizing for months to anyone who will listen about the inevitability of our …
Facebook just announced a huge change that’ll make the old people so confused
The conventional notion about Facebook these days is that the users for whom the Facebook app is still a core part of their existence are, …
Amazon sues thousands of Facebook groups over fake review schemes
Amazon’s neverending war against fake reviews kicked into overdrive this week. On Tuesday, Amazon announced that it filed legal action against the administrators of over …
Facebook might soon let you have up to 5 separate profiles, because why not
The last several months have been particularly turbulent at Facebook, where Mark Zuckerberg’s social media juggernaut has been rattled by everything from a decline in …
This red flag may tell you if someone hacked into your Facebook account
For the umpteenth time in the life of the social networking giant, Facebook is preparing to implement a top-to-bottom overhaul of its signature blue app …
Facebook’s plan to copy TikTok and change the feed is a horrible idea
It’s no secret that Facebook, with Mark Zuckerberg steering the ship, has long been attuned to rival products capable of diminishing its social networking dominance. …
Facebook may owe you a $400 settlement check – here’s how to find out
The other day on Twitter, a business owner decided to ask his followers one of those questions designed to spark interaction and engagement: “What’s the …
Facebook is retiring several location-based features this month
Facebook recently began informing users that it will retire a few underused location-based features. Nearby Friends, weather alerts, location history, and background location are each …
Apple and Facebook gave user data to hackers pretending to be cops
Apple and Facebook’s parent company Meta provided user data to hackers posing as law enforcement officials, Bloomberg reports. Sources claim that the hackers forged emergency …
Instagram’s chronological feed is back – here’s how to enable it
The latest update for Instagram finally brings back the beloved chronological feed, as well as a new favorites feed. Instagram’s chronological feed has been missing …
Facebook now allows hate speech in some countries if it’s anti-Russia
Meta made a big change to the Facebook and Instagram hate speech policies to allow users to express violent thoughts targeting the Russian forces that …
Facebook Protect email may look like a phishing scam, but it’s real
In recent days, Facebook users have been receiving emails threatening to lock them out of their accounts unless they enable Facebook Protect. There is even …
