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Meta suffers major outage at Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads

What the company is calling a “glitch” kept more than 500,000 users across the world from accessing the tech giant’s platforms. Constantine von Hoffman on March 5, 2024 Meta’s online properties were down for about two hours Tuesday, preventing more than half a million Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and Threads users from using their accounts, … Continue reading Meta suffers major outage at Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads

Meta makes AI-generated labels a standard across Facebook, Instagram and Threads

Meta makes AI-generated labels a standard across Facebook, Instagram and Threads Brian-Damien Morgan Features Writer   Meta has announced that across its social media platforms artificial intelligence (AI) generated images must be labeled going forward. The labeling system that will be titled “Imagined with AI” seeks to help users navigate the images that are created using … Continue reading Meta makes AI-generated labels a standard across Facebook, Instagram and Threads

Instagram head Adam Mosseri says sorry for all those trashy Threads recommendations

Instagram head Adam Mosseri says sorry for all those trashy Threads recommendations Threads is working on a fix for the ‘low-quality’ recommended posts that seem to have taken over recently. Cheyenne MacDonald   Sat, Jan 6, 2024 Whether or not you’ve actively been using Threads, you may have noticed — thanks to its integration into … Continue reading Instagram head Adam Mosseri says sorry for all those trashy Threads recommendations

Instagram reportedly served up child-sexualizing reels to followers of teen influencers

Instagram reportedly served up child-sexualizing reels to followers of teen influencers Employees knew about this problem internally, apparently. Richard Lai   Updated Tue, Nov 28, 2023 Photo by Richard Lai/Engadget Following X’s alleged ad controversy involving antisemitic content, it is now Meta’s turn to be put under the spotlight for its content algorithm. According to … Continue reading Instagram reportedly served up child-sexualizing reels to followers of teen influencers

Here’s how to stop your Threads posts from showing up on Instagram and Facebook

  By Emily Price November 13, 2023 Now you can decide whether or not you want your posts on Threads to be shared on Facebook and Instagram as well. Back in October, Threads launched an update that automatically shared posts on Threads with both Facebook and Instagram. The decision was likely made so that Meta, … Continue reading Here’s how to stop your Threads posts from showing up on Instagram and Facebook

Instagram will soon let you create polls in the comments section of your posts

Instagram will soon let you create polls in the comments section of your posts Instagram head Adam Mosseri said the platform has begun testing the new polls feature, and will soon expand it to everyone. Cheyenne MacDonald   Thu, Oct 19, 2023 Instagram/Adam Mosseri Instagram has started allowing some users to create polls in the … Continue reading Instagram will soon let you create polls in the comments section of your posts

Facebook and Instagram may offer paid, ad-free plans in Europe to sate EU privacy concerns

How GDPR is affecting the games you love The gaming industry had to comply with the EU’s privacy rules, too. David Lumb     Getty Images   How GDPR is affecting the games you love The tech world has been bracing for a new set of European privacy rules that   How GDPR is affecting … Continue reading Facebook and Instagram may offer paid, ad-free plans in Europe to sate EU privacy concerns