Facebook is banning all ads that promote cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, in an effort to prevent people from advertising what the company is calling “financial products and services frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices.” That means no advertiser even those that operate legal, legitimate businesses will be able to promote things like bitcoin and…
Social media companies Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube have accelerated removals of online hate speech in the face of a potential European Union crackdown. The EU has gone as far as to threaten social media companies with new legislation unless they increase efforts to fight the proliferation of extremist content and hate speech on their…
Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, now owned by Facebook Inc (FB.O), will leave the messaging service company to start a new foundation, he said in a Facebook post, Media reports on Wednesday. Acton spent eight years with WhatsApp, which Facebook bought in 2014 for $19 billion in cash and stock. A Stanford alumnus, Acton co-founded…
Facebook has launched an initiative in the UK to curb the spread of hate speech and extremist material online. The company’s Online Civil Courage Initiative, announced Friday, will offer funding and training to help local organizations track and counteract hate speech and terrorist propaganda. Facebook previously launched the program in France and Germany. This announcement…
Elon Musk has responded to criticisms leveled at him by Mark Zuckerberg, with the pair of billionaires having now publicly called each other out over their differing perspectives on the burgeoning threat of artificial intelligence. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has repeatedly gone on record to discuss AI’s threat to humanity. Earlier this month…
Snapchat is not the only company Facebook copies draws inspiration from in developing new features as the social media giant might soon be adding a new functionality that will make it look a little more like Twitter. Facebook is currently testing an experimental feature called ‘What friends are talking about’ that aims to get you…
With last week’s launch of Instagram Stories, there’s no question who Facebook’s trying to put out of business. It’s not the first time they’re taking aim at Snapchat, but it’s definitely the one that will have the heaviest impact. There are a few key reasons why Instagram Stories is Facebook’s biggest chance of winning the…
It looks like the new Instagram has features that are very very similar to SnapChat and social Media users world wide are talking about it. Instagram introduced a ‘new’ feature called InstaStories, where you can upload images and video which will not necessarily show on your timeline, but to a select few of your choice. Thats…
Facebook unveiled its $30,000 360-degree camera – the Surround 360 – few month ago and now it’s showing off just how useful it can be in a new specially-produced short film called ‘Here and Now.’ Using three 90-minute sessions in New York’s famous Grand Central Station, Facebook’s creative team (AKA The Factory) has managed to…
