Facebook rolls out TikTok-like app called Collab that lets users create music by repurposing people’s short video clips The app lets users record short video clips of music and piece them together Videos are recorded in three parts and are posted to a feed From their other users can borrow clips to create their own … Read more
Facebook bans adverts from London-based Muslim campaign group Cage who glorified Jihadi John and claim coronavirus is a punishment from god Cage has been using Facebook and YouTube to raise £400k during Ramadan Facebook data shows the group ran 16 adverts, four of which have been banned The advocacy group has previously been accused of apologising … Read more
The woman who prompted online outrage for reprimanding a carer for wearing her uniform and ’spreading germs’ is a nurse who works on the corona virus frontline and says she would do the same thing again, MailOnline can reveal. Marina Kendrick, 53, told friends that she had been enforcing the ‘nursing code’ and could not … Read more
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new data protection law that entered into force on May 25, 2018. It aims to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European Union (EU). This means cracking down on how companies like Google and Facebook use and sell the data they collect … Read more
Facebook to scan private chats in Messenger for signs of scams and deliver pop-up notifications to users who appear to be falling for them Machine learning will detect unusual behaviour and warn people of scams In-app notification will warn people and offer formation on how to avoid scams Similar feature will be used to help users spot potential … Read more
Social media giant Mark Zuckerberg has revealed Facebook is in a fake news ‘arms race’ against Russia, Iran and China. The 36-year-old made the comments in his first broadcast interview in five years. He addressed the company’s previous rows including state-sponsored interference and tens of millions of users’ data landing in the hands of political interest … Read more
Facebook’s new AI will trawl users’ pictures in an attempt to identify consumer goods and ‘make everything shoppable’ The new AI will crawl Facebook to identify products that appear on the platform It will help make shopping on Facebook easier and more precise The AI can identify attributes on products as well as specific brands By … Read more
Facebook takes on Amazon with new ‘Shops’ feature that turns business pages into online storefronts to help rebuild the economy during the coronavirus pandemic Facebook launched ‘Shops’, which lets business owners sell their products The feature is an online storefront that can show the businesses’ brand The storefront is on Instagram as well and items … Read more
Facebook building a 23,000-mile-long undersea cable to bring high speed internet to 23 poorly served countries in Africa and the Middle East The social media giant aims to increase internet access in Africa with new cable The 23,000-mile cable will circle the continent and triple its network capacity It will reportedly cost $1billion, though Facebook … Read more
Facebook buys major GIF-making site Giphy for $400 MILLION but says the animated images will still be available on Twitter and other platforms The animated image sharing service is currently open to a range of platforms Facebook said they will invest in Giphy and that it will join the Instagram team Giphy’s library of animated … Read more