Everything Facebook Launched At F8 and Why
ay 1 of Facebook’s F8 conference was packed with announcements and updates. Here are 10 big takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote on Day 1. You can find full coverage and analysis of F8...
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Is Social Media Causing Childhood Depression?
Rangan Chatterjee is a GP and says he has seen plenty of evidence of the link between mental ill-health in youngsters and their use of social media. One 16 year-old boy was referred to him after he...
NBC News Launches New Broadcast On Snapchat
The program "Stay Tuned," produced by a 30-person team, resembles a regular news broadcast in that it is presented by a journalist seen on-screen. But it lasts just three minutes and consists of a...
Ads Heading For Messenger Home Screens Globally
Facebook on Tuesday said that advertisements will begin popping up on Messenger home screens globally after promising tests with users in Australia and Thailand. "Messenger ads are going global," the...
Facebook To Start Showing Everyone Ads In Messenger
After testing Messenger ads in Australia and Thailand, Facebook announced on Tuesday that any advertiser will be able to buy ads in the app, which boasts 1.2 billion users. The ads won’t be shown...
Facebook Wants To Turn Campus Into A ‘village’
Facebook on Friday unveiled plans to transform its Silicon Valley headquarters campus into a "mixed-use village" complete with housing and retail shops. Impetus for the "Willow Campus" includes...
Instagram Enlists AI To Filter Nasty Comments
Instagram on Thursday said it is using artificial intelligence to filter nasty comments and spam at the popular Facebook-owned photo-sharing service. The move comes as Facebook and other internet...
Facebook Hits Two Billion Users
More than a quarter of the world’s population now uses Facebook every month, the social network says. “As of this morning, the Facebook community is now officially two billion people,” founder...
Facebook Deletes 66,000 Hate Posts; Gets Tough On Offensive Content
Facebook has recently been flooded with disturbing videos and other hate filled content, but the firm has revealed it is making great strides to combat these offensive ideas. The social media giant...
Snapchat Map Update Raises Child Safety Worries
An update to Snapchat that shows publicly posted images on a searchable map has raised safety concerns among parents. Snap Map lets people search for places such as schools and see videos and...
Facebook Launches Initiative To Fight Online Hate Speech
Facebook is launching a UK initiative to train and fund local organisations to combat extremism and hate speech. It comes a week after the social network announced steps of its own to remove...
Instagram Stories Now Has 250 Million Daily Users
Instagram’s Snapchat Stories clone, aptly named Instagram Stories, is now being used by 250 million users every day. Instagram revealed the new milestone Tuesday when it announced a minor update...
Man Jailed For Dangling Baby From Window In Algeria
A court in Algeria has sentenced a man to two years in prison for dangling his baby out of a window in order to attract “likes” on Facebook. The father posted a picture of himself holding the...
Man Jailed for Dangling Baby from Window to Attract ‘Likes’ on Facebook
A court in Algeria has sentenced a man to two years in prison for dangling his baby out of a window in order to attract “likes” on Facebook. The father posted a picture of himself holding the...
Man Jailed For Sharing Photo of Dead Grenfell Tower Fire Victim On Facebook
A man who posted pictures on Facebook of the body of someone believed to have leapt to his death from the Grenfell Tower fire has been jailed for three months. Omega Mwaikambo, 43, posted one...
A Plus Breaks Silence On Facebook Account Block
New Patriotic Party’s sympathizer, Kwame A Plus has said people jubilating over his suspension on Facebook should have a rethink because he is coming back stronger and rejuvenated. According to...
Harvard Cancels Students’ Admission Over Offensive Facebook Posts
They posted memes about rape and dead children and the Holocaust. They joked that hanging a Mexican child should be called “pinata time.” And now Harvard has decided it doesn’t want them...
Government Shuts Down Internet Links Circulating Videos; Issues Warning
The government has begun removing graphic pictures and videos capturing the gruesome murder of Captain Adam Mahama from all social media sites. The government has already shutdown some internet links...
Learn From Manchester Bombings; Stop Sharing Captain Mahama Pictures
The family of the late Captain Maxwell Mahama who was lynched at Denkyira-Obuasi has called on Ghanaians to stop sharing videos and photos of the deceased. They say people should be responsible and...
Instagram’s New Feature Helps You Clean Up Your Profile Without Deleting
Any dedicated Instagrammer knows that a carefully curated profile is extremely important. Sometimes, that means you may have to delete old photos that you no longer like or that don’t mesh with the...