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How to change your Messenger background and emoji
Facebook recently updated Messenger with new themes, which change your background color and signature emoji. Here's how to ...
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How to enable dark mode on all of your essential apps
The charcoal-colored Dark Mode settings are a favorite -- here's how you can enable it on all of your favorite social media ...
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Facebook and YouTube take action against QAnon — but they’re fighting a losing battle
Recent decisions by Facebook and YouTube to crack down on the far-right conspiracy theory movement known as QAnon will disrupt ...
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Instagram Threads is now basically a dedicated message app
Instagram has updated Threads to allow you to use it to message anyone on Instagram and not just your close friends, making ...
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Facebook will now let you message across Messenger and Instagram
eFacebook has finally taken the first step towards integrating its messaging services. The company will now allow you to ...
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Facebook patched a bug that let anyone find out which private groups you've joined
Facebook recently patched two bugs in its systems that let a non-member check if you're a part of a certain group and draw ...
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Facebook unveils prototype AR glasses that give you 'auditory superpowers'
Facebook has produced a set of AR glasses that give users "perceptual superpowers" by amplifying what they want to hear ...
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Facebook Messenger wants to curb misinformation by limiting forwards to 5 contacts at a time
In 2018, WhatsApp introduced a limit on forwarding messages to only five contacts at a time. Now, Facebook is bringing that ...
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7 lead generation lessons we learned by creating a Facebook quiz
Did you know we have an online event about digital marketing coming up? Join the Re:Brand track at TNW2020 to explore the ...
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Report: Facebook turned a blind eye to violence-inciting posts to appease India’s government
India is one of the biggest markets for Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook and Google. It's also a slippery slope in ...
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Get yourself off social media: A guide to deleting your accounts
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...
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Apple clashes with Microsoft, Google, and Facebook over cloud gaming
The big tech companies are having a fight over cloud gaming -- specifically, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook are angry at ...
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How to change your name on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms
Sometimes you just need a change. Here's how to change your username and display name on Facebook, Twitter, and other social ...
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Facebook gears up to take on TikTok with Instagram Reels' worldwide launch
Shortly after shutting down Lasso, Facebook is taking another stab at cutting into TikTok's userbase — but this with Instagram ...
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It's not just you: WhatsApp is down for many users [Update: It's back]
If you've been having trouble sending or receiving messages on WhatsApp, you're not alone. People around the world are reporting ...
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How to turn off political ads on Facebook
Facebook recently started offering the option for you to see fewer political ads on the platform. Here's how to find the ...
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Facebook issues $100K challenge to build an AI that can identify hateful memes
Memes are now an integral part of how people communicate on the internet. While a lot of these memes have an ability to cheer ...
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Indian Army asks its personnel to delete 89 apps including Facebook and Tinder
The Indian Army has asked its personnel to remove 89 apps from their phones including Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, and Tinder ...
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How to delete your old Facebook posts in bulk
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...
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Need a referral for a job at Google or Facebook? That’ll be $50
A startup has found a way to monetize your desire to work at the world's best companies — by selling job referrals from ...
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Research: political hashtags make online news discussions more extreme
Whether you’re a conservative or a liberal, you have most likely come across a political hashtag in an article, a tweet ...
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Facebook announces Workplace Rooms, basically Messenger Rooms for work
Facebook recently launched Messenger Rooms, one of its biggest new products in years. It attempts to provide an alternative ...
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Messenger Rooms, Facebook's 50-caller Zoom competitor, is now available
Messenger Rooms is now available and rolling out globally, supporting up to 50 video callers at once. Here's how to use Facebook's ...
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WhatsApp may soon support 50-person video calls through Messenger Rooms
Ever since Facebook bought WhatsApp back in 2014, the company has managed to keep the the mega-popular chat app quite separate ...
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Facebook just made it easy to copy images to Google Photos -- here's how
Facebook today made it easy for users in the US and Canada to transfer their images and videos to Google Photos. The tool ...
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Facebook challenges Zoom with Messenger Rooms, supporting 50 video callers at once
Video calling and virtual meetings have become our new normal during this pandemic, and everyone from Zoom, to Microsoft, ...
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Facebook’s political targeting machine should be cracked open by the DSA
Europe is about to overhaul its 20-year-old eCommerce Directive and it is a once-in-a-decade chance to correct the power ...
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Facebook built a map that tracks COVID-19 symptoms by county
Mark Zuckerberg today revealed Facebook has teamed up with Carnegie Mellon University to help track the spread of potential ...
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Facebook launches gaming app in the US to take on Twitch and YouTube
Facebook can't seem to help trying to infiltrate every possible iteration of social media, and since its acquisition of Oculus, ...
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Facebook just introduced a 'Quiet Mode' to help you stop using Facebook
'Digital wellbeing,' the movement to limit our times on devices so we can focus on other things, has been one of the biggest ...
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How to make the switch to Facebook’s new design right now
Facebook's recently rolled out its sleek new site design. If you haven't already tried it, here's how you can switch over. ...
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Why Facebook is thinking about investing in India's biggest network
India is home to Facebook‘s largest user base on the planet, with hundreds of millions of people using its digital services. ...
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Instagram now lets you share posts with your friends directly in video chats
Instagram wants you to feel cozy as you video-call friends during the coronavirus outbreak, so it's adding a feature that ...
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Instagram is testing self-destructing messages too
Facebook appears to be going all-in on the whole ephemeral messaging shindig. Recently, we reported that the company is apparently ...
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Facebook just canceled its F8 developer conference because of coronavirus
Facebook today announced the cancellation of its annual F8 developer conference due to fears over the COVID-19 (coronavirus) ...
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SXSW has officially been canceled amid coronavirus concerns
South by Southwest, the huge music, technology, and film festival in Austin, has been canceled for the first time in 34 years. ...
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What the world’s biggest tech companies are doing to fight coronavirus
Coronavirus is having a ripple effect on every part of the world. Here's what the biggest tech companies are doing to help. ...
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How Facebook's new AI system has deactivated billions of fake accounts
Facebook has unveiled a new machine learning model called DEC that has already detected hundreds of millions of fake accounts ...
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15 hedge fund managers earned $12B last year — thanks to bullish tech stocks
Five hedge fund managers earned more than $1 billion each last year, and they did it (partly) by investing in big players ...
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Telcom companies are using Facebook fake news against each other
Facebook uncovered another fake news campaign, this time apparently started by telcom companies in Southeast Asia to discredit ...
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MasterCard CEO on Facebook's Libra: 'I don't understand how that works'
MasterCard chief exec Ajay Banga has revealed exactly why he decided to leave Facebook's 'cryptocurrency' project Libra back ...
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Facebook refused to remove a business Page dedicated to a woman's butthole
Buzzfeed yesterday published an article about a woman who'd spent the past five years trying to get Facebook to take down ...
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How to use Facebook's 'Off-Facebook Activity' tool
Facebook's finally rolled out its Off-Facebook tool to everyone. Here's how to use it to manage what other sites are sharing ...
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Report: Japan is working on its own digital currency in retaliation to China’s
A group of lawmakers in Japan are reportedly working on a plan for the country to create its own digital currency in retaliation ...
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Facebook has reportedly shelved its plans to show ads on WhatsApp
Good news! Facebook is dropping its plans to show ads on its popular messaging service WhatsApp. According to a report by ...
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UK money saving expert featured in fake cryptocurrency ads on Instagram — AGAIN!
It's 2020, you'd think by now cryptocurrency scammers would have moved on from using unendorsed celebrity images to peddle ...
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Even Facebook's employees don't trust it with their financial info
Facebook is not exactly a platform that's engendered a lot of trust over the last couple of years. Its users have shown an ...
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Facebook tests tool that allows users to export photos to Google
Facebook today announced a new tool that would allow users to transfer their photos and videos from Facebook to other storage ...
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Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger are down — go back to work
Yep, it's not just you: Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger are all down right now — and nobody knows why. Find something ...
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Bitcoin fraudsters target head of $230B fund in latest Facebook scam
The CEO of Singapore's Temesek has been used to peddle Bitcoin scams on Facebook, the latest incarnation of a long-running ...
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Facebook wants to pay you to answer social media questions
We already know apps like Facebook try to learn as much about you as possible, so why not at least get paid for it? Facebook ...
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How Facebook crammed all its major features into a 2MB Lite app
Over the past few years, several major mature tech companies including the likes of Google, Uber, Spotify, and Twitter have ...
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Instagram cracks down on app that allowed users to stalk private profiles
Instagram is cracking down on Ghosty, an Android and iOS app that allowed users to look into private profiles without their ...
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Facebook is quietly testing an Instagram feed-like feature
Facebook is trying to really hard to tell people it owns Instagram and WhatsApp. Earlier this month, the company introduced ...
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Facebook fixed that bug that opened your camera without permission
It was just yesterday we reported on a disconcerting bug in Facebook's iOS app that would sometimes open your camera in the ...
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Facebook’s black employees say the company has a racism problem
A group of anonymous black Facebook — past and present — employees have published an open letter stating the company's ...
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Facebook is finally testing Dark Mode
Facebook is finally testing a dark mode for its Android app afeter sitting out for long. Reliable app leaker Jane Manchun ...
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Apple's AR headset will reportedly arrive in 2022, its glasses in 2023
We've been hearing rumors Apple is working on some sort of augmented reality headset for ages, but today a report from The ...
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Facebook spelled 'password' wrong in new Instagram renders
Hundreds of brand designers and communications reps worked on Facebook's new look — and nobody spotted this embarassing ...
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Facebook has a new logo (but the app will look the same)
Facebook is making a major change to its visual identity, differentiating Facebook the company from Facebook the app. The ...
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Q4 digital report: Pinterest gains on Instagram and TikTok don’t stop
Catch up on the global state of digital in October 2019 with data highlights from the new Digital 2019 Q4 Global Digital ...
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Facebook pledges $1B to help fix California's housing crisis (good luck with that)
Facebook today announced it was partnering with the state of California to try and fix the state's housing crisis. It's promised ...
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Facebook’s Libra ‘cryptocurrency’ gets desperate as it considers stablecoins
Facebook's controversial 'cryptocurrency' Libra could be based on national currencies such as the dollar, the tech giant ...
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US Fed Reserve: Facebook’s ‘cryptocurrency’ dream faces core legal, regulatory challenges
The US Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said yesterday that Facebook must overcome a “core of legal and regulatory ...
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How to watch Mark Zuckerberg's 'free expressions' speech
Buckle up for some snarky headlines later this night – Mark Zuckerberg is going to stream a speech about his views on free ...
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Facebook removes accounts used to distribute malware since 2014
Facebook has shut down more than 30 accounts that were found to be spreading malware through malicious links that claimed ...
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Facebook is reportedly locking users out for reporting fake accounts
In a completely bizarre incident, Facebook is locking people who report scammers, fake accounts, and impersonators out of ...
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Zuck says he’s ready for a fight if Elizabeth Warren is elected
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is getting his employees ready for what could turn out to be the biggest threat his company's ...
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3 things the leaked Zuckerberg tapes taught us about Facebook's Libra 'cryptocurrency'
Facebook's "cryptocurrency" Libra has been dragged over the coals many times. And now it seems staff at the Big F are also ...
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Ready Player What? Facebook announces a new VR social network
Facebook today revealed Horizon, it's virtual reality social media space. We're taking bets on how long until it's wallpapered ...
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Facebook scores big, gets rights to air highlights from major cricket tournaments
The International Cricket Council (ICC), the governing body for the sport, announced today it's partnering with Facebook ...
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Russian Facebook hit with fake Telegram token ads using Pavel Durov's face
When new cryptocurrencies are announced it doesn't take long for scams to follow. Telegram's incoming TON token is the latest ...
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How to edit Facebook’s list of your presumed interests
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...
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Facebook now asks for consent to scan your photos (but only on new accounts)
Facebook today announced it'd be rolling out its facial recognition settings to everyone -- and that and that it'd be turned ...
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Facebook to test removing the 'like' counter from posts
Facebook is finally testing a much-needed change to its social network - hiding Like counts on posts. App researcher Jane ...
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Opinion: Facebook's brain computer interface will be the instrument of society's collapse
Anyone else think giving Facebook literal access to our brains is a catastrophically stupid idea? If you missed it: Facebook's ...
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Facebook's 'technical error' in Messenger Kids allowed children to chat with adults, unsupervised
Facebook has admitted to a design flaw in Messenger Kids that allowed kids to participate in group chats with adults, without ...
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Facebook lets you (sorta) control what info it gets from other sites
Facebook rolls out a new feature that will allegedly let you control what data it collects on you from other sites -- except ...
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Sex toy companies unite to protest double standards of Facebook's ad policy
Dame and Unbound, a sexual wellness company that has also faced censorship, are working together to tackle Facebook's ad ...
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15 nations are reportedly banding together to monitor suspect cryptocurrency transfers
Some 15 countries, including Australia and Singapore, are reportedly banding together to create a data collection and sharing ...
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Face filter bug reveals this young vlogger is actually a middle-aged woman
In a bizarre turn of events, a technical glitch during a livestream revealed this young vlogger to be a middle-aged woman, ...
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The best way to make money out of Libra? Put a bet on it not launching on time
With every passing week, the future of Facebook's digital currency Libra is looking less and less certain to launch next ...
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US watchdog preps BitMEX probe over alleged illegal cryptocurrency trade
Cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX is being investigated by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
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TikTok is testing a WhatsApp shortcut to let you share videos with your best friends
TikTok is testing a bunch of new features, including a new Discover tab, account linking with Facebook and Google, and a ...
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Report: Bitcoin outperformed all other coins in Q2 2019
According to a recent report, Bitcoin increased its market dominance from 54.6 percent to 65 percent in Q2 2019.
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Research: The best way to stop the spread of fake photos is education
It can be hard to tell whether a picture is real. Consider, as the participants in our recent research did, these two images ...
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Secret US Border Patrol hate group exposed on Facebook
Investigative journalist A.C. Thompson from ProPublica today exposed a secret Facebook group for US Border Patrol agents ...
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Facebook revives its mobile data gathering program with a new app
Facebook today announced a new app called Study, that'll collect your data in exchange for monetary benefits.
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Dutch billionaire and Big Brother creator sues Facebook over fraudulent Bitcoin ads
Cryptocurrency fraudsters used Dutch billionaire John de Mol to peddle Bitcoin scams. Now, he wants revenge, and Facebook ...
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Moonday Mornings: Bitcoin flash-crashed to $75, SIM-swapping on the rise, and more
It’s time for another edition of Moonday Mornings! Hard Fork’s wrap-up of the weekend's top cryptocurrency and blockchain ...
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Facebook is so insanely big, it had to design a brand new DHCP server
In awe at the size of that server infrastructure. Absolute unit.
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Fake Facebook accounts are influencing African elections
Facebook has issued a statement on how it removed fake accounts originating from Israel that ran Facebook Pages, Groups ...
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Moonday Mornings: Banks pour $50M into blockchain, Bitcoin gets on CBS' 60 Minutes
In this weekend's top blockchain stories: Facebook sets up house for its cryptocurrency project in Geneva, and banks pour ...
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Facebook's approach to fighting fake news is admirable, but not sustainable
With the huge EU elections around the corner, the issue of fake news has started to crop up again in headlines -- and Facebook ...
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Facebook contract workers look at your private posts to help train its AI
A new report from Reuters has revealed how contract workers for Facebook and Instagram are looking at your private posts ...
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Q2 Digital Statshot 2019: TikTok peaks, Snapchat grows, and we can’t stop talking
It’s only been three months since I published our first round of Digital 2019 reports here on TNW, but our new Q2 Global ...
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How to mute spoilers on Twitter and Facebook
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice on how to get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...
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Facebook may soon let you chat with friends on mobile without Messenger
It's been years since Facebook booted out the messaging functionality from it's main app to boost Messenger, but now it might ...
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Facebook's AI prevents deceased users' profiles from popping up in your suggestions
It's hard to cope with the loss of a loved one, and it's harder when their profile pops up on Facebook as a suggestion, as ...
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Facebook is cracking down on fake accounts before India's election
The first phase of the Indian Assembly’s election kicks off on April 21, but the increase in propaganda has already begun. ...
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Apps are stealing your attention — here's how to break up with your phone
On average, people spend almost six hours on their phone everyday. But it's not all their fault, phones and apps are designed ...
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Facebook's reportedly been storing millions of user passwords in plain text since 2012
Facebook revelaed last night that it stored password of millions of users in plaintext. What's more shocking is that this ...
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Bitcoin scammers used Facebook ads to swindle Chinese businessmen out of $250K
Authorities have sentenced three cryptocurrency criminals for robbing $250,000 from a group of Chinese businessmen in Dubai. ...
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4 Facebook Ad tips for selling more e-commerce products overnight
When building an e-commerce brand, social media should play a vital role in helping you get the word out so you can reach ...
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Mark Zuckerberg plans to make Facebook more private with 6 key changes
Mark Zuckerberg wants to make Facebook less like a town square, and more like a living room. So he declares in a massive ...
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Facebook and Instagram will hide pages that spread 'vaccine misinformation'
I'd like to think that everyone who reads TNW knows that vaccines work. That they don't cause autism, as demonstrated time ...
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How to stop Facebook from tracking your location
Facebook is know to be notorious to track your data. You can at least limit the location data the social network collects ...
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What is a Facebook 'legacy contact' and why do you need one?
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice on how to get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...
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Facebook lets you search for pictures of your female friends, but not your male ones
Well, this sounds familiar.
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Why Germany wants to block Facebook's Messenger-Instagram-WhatsApp merger
Facebook made a splash recently when CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plans to integrate its messaging platforms on Instagram, Messenger, ...
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Facebook's totally not listening to you, its new ad disclosure feature screams desperately
Remember hearing about - or worse, feeling like - people seeing ads related to topics they've merely talked about with friends ...
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A look at Facebook.com's homepage over the last 15 years
It is a statement of fact that Facebook turned 15 today. You might call that a birthday. Perhaps Facebook's employees are ...
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Facebook convinced teens to sell their privacy for $20
Another day, another Facebook controversy
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Facebook now lets you create petitions for social causes
In the past few years, Facebook's been concentrating on community-based features like Candidate Info and Town Hall to increase ...
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Study shows Facebook users still don’t understand tracking
The Pew Research Center today released the results of its latest survey of Facebook users, this time about the ad categories ...
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5 of the worst security missteps by major tech companies in 2018
2018 marked the year that governments, businesses, and other organizations around the world started implementing GDPR — ...
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No, Samsung isn't pre-installing Facebook on your phone
Early this morning, Bloomberg reported that Samsung doesn't let users uninstall the Facebook app from some of its phones. ...
