Category: Facebook

Instagram is helping users avoid phishing scams

[ad_1] The list displays security-related emails that instagram has sent within the past two weeks. A secondary tab lists emails that aren’t security-related, such as announcements about new features or direct message notifications. If you received an email from Instagram with a subject prompting you to change your password, for example, you could open up […]

EU grills Facebook over Libra’s financial and privacy risks

[ad_1] The questioning is part of a larger EU effort to determine if and how Libra should be regulated, provided it’s even allowed to operate in the region. There are significant hurdles to that happening. The European Central Bank’s Benoît Coeuré has warned that the standards for approval “will be very high,” and the French […]

Instagram tests Group Stories after Facebook ditched them

[ad_1] Like other tests, there’s no guarantee this will make the cut. That’s particularly relevant given the fate of the equivalent feature in Facebook. However, it might stand a better chance of survival in Instagram. Simply put, Stories are more of a staple here than they are in Facebook — it makes more sense to […]

Instagram takes its first steps into becoming an AR changing room

[ad_1] The feature allows you to experiment with different colors and models as well. Using lipstick as an example, you can see how different shades look by tapping through a color selector toward the bottom of the interface. Once you’ve tried on a product, you can purchase it without leaving Instagram. It’s also possible to […]

Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency loses backing from PayPal

[ad_1] A few days after the Wall Street Journal suggested that some companies announced as initial backers for Facebook’s cyptocurrency were reconsidering support, PayPal has announced it will end its participation in the Libra Association. Founding members invest $10 million to fund the association, and as CNBC notes, it’s unclear what happens to that money […]

Instagram’s Threads is compelling, but kind of creepy

[ad_1] On the surface, Threads is essentially an extension of Instagram’s Close Friends feature for Stories, which was introduced in 2018. Close Friends, in case you’re not familiar with it, lets you share pictures, videos and message only with groups of people you’ve carefully selected. In fact, if you haven’t created a Close Friends list […]

Facebook pulls hundreds of propaganda accounts linked to PR firms

[ad_1] In particular, the firms created fake accounts and used them to post anti-Qatar, anti-Iran and pro-UAE propaganda. Egypt and the UAE cut off their ties with Qatar a couple of years ago, accusing the country’s government of supporting terrorism. Here’s a sample post by one of the fake Pages: BuzzFeed News, which previously discovered […]

DOJ will ask Facebook to halt end-to-end encryption plans

[ad_1] Attorney General William Barr is set to make the request in an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday. Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel and Australian Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton also signed the draft letter, which BuzzFeed News and the New York Times obtained […]

Europe’s top court rules that Facebook can be ordered to remove illegal content

[ad_1] The decision by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) comes after former politician Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek sued Facebook Ireland in the Austrian courts, in a bid to have an insulting comment removed which she believed was harmful to her reputation. The Facebook user in question had shared an article on their Facebook page, accompanied by […]