With a COVID-19 vaccine nearing release, the major tech platforms have agreed to partner on a new program, in conjunction with fact-checking organizations, in order to formulate new, improved approaches to combatting vaccine misinformation. As reported by BBC: “Taking part in the effort alongside Facebook, Google-owned YouTube and Twitter are the UK’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media…
The CEOs of Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple all fronted the House Judiciary Committee in the US today as part of a five-hour hearing which intended to establish whether the tech giants have been operating in an anti-competitive manner. The subsequent rulings based on the hearings could, eventually, result in new regulations restricting, or even reducing, the…
While the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has dampened enthusiasm for event days in 2020, the 17th of July marks the World Emoji Day, which aims to celebrate those small, cartoonish characters than have now become a significant part of the way people communicate. Indeed, according to research, some 92% of people have used, and/or regularly now use, emojis…
If you’ve tapped on the Facebook options menu in the mobile app in the last few days, you may have noticed this. The listing has been changed from the all-white layout to a blue gradient background, along with bubble tiles for each individual option, with alerts for recent activity beneath each. The team over at Android…
Over the last few years, Facebook has provided regular updates on clusters of accounts that it’s detected which have been engaged in what it calls “coordinated inauthentic behavior” – essentially, broad-scale operations designed to misinform and mislead Facebook users. Following the 2016 US Presidential Election, and revelations of foreign interference in the political process, Facebook has been taking a…
Facebook this week launched a new, mobile version of its Creator Studio tool, with a separate Creator Studio app to help better manage your Facebook Pages on the go. The new app will be able to manage and edit Page posts, view performance analytics and respond to messages – with the added capacity to manage multiple Facebook Pages through…
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton thinks you should delete Facebook as he was seen telling a crowd at Wired’s 25th-anniversary summit that while people have to make their own decisions about the social network, he stands by his decision to leave. “If you want to be on Facebook and you want to have ads thrust in front…
Facebook is the most used App in terms of communication and business purposes. It is the wish of many to communicate through facebook but storage space is sometimes a barrier. Follow these simple steps and chat without installing the App.
To post to a facebook group: From your News Feed click <Groups> in the left menu and select your group. Click <Write something…>>
From the top of your timeline/news feed, click <MAKE POST> You can add text update or click the type of post you’d like to share (for instance: Photo/video, Feeling/activity). You can equally: Add a location Add a photo or video Add a sticker Tag friends Add your feeling at the moment Choose where you would…