AI-generated accounts are coming to Facebook and Instagram, just what we all wanted
Here’s an idea for my colleagues in the media business that run news properties with declining readerships: You could always take a page from Meta, …
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Widespread outage takes down Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
Update: After an hour of this outage, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are working again. Users seem to be experiencing an outage with Meta products. At …
How to unlink your Facebook and Instagram profiles now that you finally can
The EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) is about to take effect. It’s not just iPhone sideloading that’s going to happen in Europe. Among other things, …
How to unlink Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger accounts: Move to Europe
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Meta Marketplace, and Meta. According to the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) law, these are all gatekeeper services. Meta …
How to turn off Facebook’s link history on iPhone and Android
If you’ve logged into Facebook on your phone recently, you might have seen a notification about a new privacy setting called “link history.” Facebook has …
Meta really doesn’t want you to buy its ad-free subscription for Facebook and Instagram
Meta’s ad-free subscription is rolling out for Facebook and Instagram, but that doesn’t mean the company wants you to buy it. Facebook and Instagram users …
You’ll soon be able to stop your Threads from showing up on Facebook and Instagram
Well, it appears that Meta has once again learned a lesson that, just because people like one of your products, doesn’t mean that they like …
Ad-free Facebook and Instagram might just be bait, so people let Meta track them for ads
Meta announced a few days ago that it introduced new ad-free Facebook and Instagram subscriptions for the European market. The service will only be available …
PSA: Meta is showing your Threads to your friends and family on Facebook
If you’ve been posting some especially strange messages Threads, thinking that only the few people who follow you will see them, I have some bad …
WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are gatekeepers in the EU – prepare to be confused
Earlier this week, the European Commission announced the first list of gatekeeper companies and services for the European Union (EU). That’s how we know Apple …
Instagram Reels is getting a chronological feed, but you probably can’t use it
If you’re ever watching Instagram Reels but wanted to only see Reels from people you follow from newest to oldest, you’re about to have that …
Last chance to claim your share of Facebook’s $725 million settlement
If you want your share of Facebook’s $725 million settlement over the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, you need to act fast. Anyone who had a …
Instagram, Threads, Facebook, and WhatsApp are all down right now
Well, it looks like Meta has finally figured out just how much growth it can handle before Threads brings the whole ship down. This evening, …
Twitter is so broken that we’re actually waiting for Facebook to launch its own copycat service
Weird times that we wait for Facebook’s parent company Meta to save us from the Twitter chaos. During the weekend, Elon Musk announced that it …
Facebook will start paying creators for actually posting on Facebook
Facebook is really getting desperate to compete with TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. In a blog post, the company announced that it is starting to test …
Meta hit with record-breaking $1.3 billion fine over Facebook data transfers
Facebook parent company Meta received a record-breaking $1.3 billion fine in Europe (€1.2 billion) following a privacy violation that regulators have been investigating for a …
Facebook is building a notification widget for Windows 11
Facebook is working on its next Windows 11 widget, and this one is trying to get you to open up — you guessed it — …
Here’s how Facebook wants to protect businesses from malware
In its quarterly threat reporting, Facebook announces what its team has been doing to help protect businesses against malware. The company says its security researchers …
How to claim your cash payment from the latest Facebook settlement
If you had a Facebook account at any point between May 24, 2007 and December 22, 2022, Facebook’s parent company Meta might owe you money. …
Meta Verified forces you to display your legal name on Facebook and Instagram
Meta’s paid verification service launched a little while ago, and while we have all generally laughed together about people paying to verify themselves on a …
Facebook and Instagram users can now opt out of tracking, but only in Europe
Meta will finally do the unthinkable and let Facebook and Instagram users opt out of user-tracking, which services like Facebook and Google use to serve …
You can now pay to be verified on Facebook and Instagram in the US
If you want to be verified on Facebook or Instagram, you can now pay Mark Zuckerberg some money to make it happen. The CEO of …
Meta announces 10,000 more layoffs
Meta is doubling down on layoffs after letting thousands of employees go last fall. On Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a post on his …
Meta is bringing Messenger back to the Facebook app
About a decade ago, Facebook (before it was Meta) made the controversial decision to extricate Messenger from the Facebook app. If you wanted to continue …
Facebook Reels can now last up to 90 seconds
In an attempt to catch up with TikTok, Meta announced a series of upgrades for Facebook Reels on Friday. Most notably, Reels are now 1.5x …
Facebook and Instagram profile verification costs $12 a month
One of the things Meta (formerly Facebook) does best to keep users on its social media platforms is to copy competitors exhaustively. Meta has done …
Facebook will tell you how it uses AI to determine what ads you see
If you’ve wondered why you are seeing an ad in your Facebook feed, Meta is looking to bring more transparency to that. In a blog …
