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No one would argue that there are more options now for showing off your work than ever before. The only question is what platform to champion? After all, each has its strengths and weaknesses. But those that make it easy to share across multiple apps often tend to have a special place in our hearts […]

Facebook has cut off Russian access to Facebook following claims that the service is fact-checking state-run media and limiting access to its platforms for these same organizations. This is apparently against Russian law although all of this is seemingly in reaction to Facebook’s limiting access to these organizations outside of Russia. So, it’s a kind […]

European data regulations are becoming a big issue for a lot of companies that rely upon user data for their revenue, chief among them Meta’s apps Facebook and Instagram. In fact, if the company can’t process user information stateside, they might just pull the plug on their apps in the EU market entirely according to […]

There’s little doubt that Facebook is placing huge bets on virtual reality as being the future of almost everything, but we never quite got a sense of the scale behind those efforts until Meta revealed its most recent earnings report which showed that it spent no less than $10 billion on the VR division. That’s […]

Facebook and Instagram’s parent company Meta just announced a huge initiative to combat revenge porn on the Internet. Partnering with UK nonprofit group Revenge Porn Helpline, the system is pretty simple in theory though it could be somewhat complex in terms of getting buy-in from people that could be impacted. That’s because it relies upon […]

This is probably a good move from multiple perspectives but it looks like Facebook is saying “goodbye” to its facial recognition system used in tagging photos. In a blog post announcing the change, Facebook noted that “people who have opted in to our Face Recognition setting will no longer be automatically recognized in photos and […]