Meta
Facebook to hire 10,000 new employees in 2020: Sheryl Sandberg
Facebook is expecting to hire 10,000 workers, by the end of 2020, for its product and engineering department. It is unclear at this time that how many new hires will join as full-time or the number include contractors. With the new hiring, the...
Business
Facebook says ads revenue is weakening due to COVID-19 outbreak
Facebook said it had seen its ads business weakening with the outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus, which accounts for nearly all of its revenue, despite more people are using its social platforms during the lockdown. The services which are seeing a surge, like a...
Amazon
How bad COVID-19 has hit the tech industry
The novel coronavirus COVID-19 so far has a devastating impact on the U.S. and many other state's economies. As all the affected countries are trying to stem the spread of the virus, life seems to be slowly grinding to a halt. This grind...
Meta
Facebook blocked some posts about coronavirus, due to a bug
Facebook undergoes a bug in its News Feed spam filter, which caused the platform to remove some posts with content about the Coronavirus (COVID-19) information mistakenly. Users complained that the links to their new-stories related to Cornavirus are being removed on the ground of...
Meta
Facebook sues Namecheap for registering deceptive domains
Facebook, the social network company, has filed a lawsuit against Namecheap, a domain name registrar, and WhoisGuard, Namecheap's proxy service, in Arizona for alleged cybersquatting and registering deceiving domain names that allegedly infringed on Facebook's trademark. Christen Dubois, Director and Associate General Counsel of...
Apps
Dark Mode for WhatsApp is now available for the latest versions of Android and iOS
WhatsApp has finally rolled out its dark mode for every iOS and Android user. The dark mode will operate on systems with iOS 13 and Android 10 levels. Android 9 users can also switch to it with a few settings. According to WhatsApp,...
Apps
Instagram “Latest Posts” feed sort is coming back, leaks suggest
Instagram will introduce to its users with an option to see all the content that they might have missed based on the sorting order of when they were posted. In other words, Instagram is about to roll out "Latest Posts" feature to sort...
Facebook
Facebook and Twitter refused to take down edited Nancy Pelosi video posted by Donald Trump
President Donald Trump posted an edited video of Nancy Pelosi on social media to show that Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, tears up his State of the Union speech repeatedly. Nancy Pelosi appears to make tiny tears in Trump's State of the Union speech...
Meta
Instagram rolls out new Following Categories feature
Instagram has just introduced a new feature in its platform called Following Categories. This feature, by the photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, in the followings list of a profile allows users to see updates from the people they love...
Business
Facebook and eBay following agreement to ban trading of fake reviews
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Facebook and eBay knocked down hundreds of accounts, generating fake and misleading reviews, according to a report by Britains' Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). About six months ago, CMA identified "troubling evidence" for fake and misleading online reviews. After struggling from the past eight...
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In 2024, several AI systems encountered significant gaffes. Chatbots provided misleading information on sensitive topics, and AI generated racially insensitive images. These incidents demonstrated the potential for serious consequences when...