What you need to know Facebook is adding how it handles satirical content in its community standards page. Decision comes after Oversight Board reviewed a comment that Facebook initially took down for violating community standards. The board recommended several points, and Facebook is assessing whether or not to adopt them. Facebook is updating its community … [Read more...] about Facebook to consider satirical content when judging hate speech violations
How to change your username in Facebook on iPhone
Like most social networking sites, Facebook offers its users the ability to change their username. If you made a mistake the first time, then you can choose a new name for your Facebook account. Facebook is one of the biggest social media service on the internet, and is used by pretty much everyone who has access to internet. It’s important that you have a username that … [Read more...] about How to change your username in Facebook on iPhone
Facebook Wav2vec-U learns to recognize speech from unlabeled data
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Facebook today announced that it trained an AI model to build speech recognition systems that don’t require transcribed data. The company, which trained systems for Swahili, Tatar, Kyrgyz, and other languages, claims that the model, wav2vec Unsupervised (Wav2vec-U), is an important step toward building … [Read more...] about Facebook Wav2vec-U learns to recognize speech from unlabeled data
How to Set Up Facebook Memorialization Settings
Social media is rarely one of the things people consider at the end of their lives or when a loved one passes away, but Facebook has created a world of memorialization settings and Facebook pages that belong to those that are no longer with us. These Memorialization settings help determine what happens to your Facebook account when you pass on. This article will help you set … [Read more...] about How to Set Up Facebook Memorialization Settings
Facebook Messenger becomes third non-Google app to garner five billion downloads on Play Store
To date only two non-Google apps ever succeeded in garnering over five billion downloads on the Google Play Store. Facebook Messenger this week achieved the milestone, taking the count of apps in the five billion downloads club to three. Including the Google apps, this is the fourteenth app to hit the five billion download mark, including other apps like YouTube, Google Maps … [Read more...] about Facebook Messenger becomes third non-Google app to garner five billion downloads on Play Store
Facebook starts testing ‘read first’ prompts to combat misinformation
Facebook is borrowing Twitter's approach to fighting misinformation. What you need to know Facebook is testing an informed sharing method on its platform. The app will prompt users to read an article before sharing it. The feature is similar to a prompt that Twitter introduced last summer. Facebook continues its crusade against the spread of misinformation by … [Read more...] about Facebook starts testing ‘read first’ prompts to combat misinformation
Facebook introduces new features for better interactions on Messenger, Instagram
Facebook aims to make conversations on its platform easier and better. For this, the social media giant has now introduced new features for Messenger and Instagram so that people can stay connected more than ever. The features include new themes, stickers, and more to fun chat exchanges between people. Here’s a look at what’s in store for us. New Facebook Messenger, … [Read more...] about Facebook introduces new features for better interactions on Messenger, Instagram
Facebook Uses Scare Tactics to Fight New iPhone Anti-Tracking Tools
The new iOS 14.5 update includes an “App Tracking Transparency” feature, which lets iPhone users ask apps not to track their activity across the web. But a new popup in the Instagram and Facebook apps suggests that Facebook services will not be free unless users allow the company to track their activity, a dramatic change from Facebook’s “free and always will be” … [Read more...] about Facebook Uses Scare Tactics to Fight New iPhone Anti-Tracking Tools
You can now listen to songs from Spotify from within the Facebook app
Spotify has announced that Premium subscribers can access a new miniplayer from inside the Facebook app. That means the next time you’re scrolling through your News Feed, you can control your music without switching between apps. The new integration is similar to what you’d find in Waze. Spotify said the new feature is rolling out in select market, and will allow users to … [Read more...] about You can now listen to songs from Spotify from within the Facebook app
Facebook to soon allow Messenger users to directly chat with WhatsApp users on the platform
We all know that the social media giant Facebook is working towards connecting all its apps together with the aim to deliver a seamless user experience. The social media platform has already released some features previously that integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook with one another. A new leak now shows another example of integration between the two biggest social media … [Read more...] about Facebook to soon allow Messenger users to directly chat with WhatsApp users on the platform