Instagram Is Considering Adding Video And Audio Calls To Its Website, And Is Also Working On Auto-Saves For Story Drafts

Instagram is testing the ability to make both audio and video calls with the platform’s website version. Its engineers are also working on integrating an auto-save feature for Drafts. Instagram is a platform that, while having a rich and robust mobile application that is literally miles ahead of...

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YouTube Is Adding Preview Thumbnails To Android TV and Google TV, While Also Testing Out Preview Comments For The Mobile App

YouTube is rolling out autoplay preview thumbnails for AndroidTV and GoogleTV devices hosting the platform. The site is also testing out preview comments on its mobile version. Previews on thumbnails have been a feature for quite a long time on YouTube. While they started out with the website, the...

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European Data Protection Board becomes more conscious about user privacy and how data is being collected for targeted ads

The European Data Protection Board which overlooks all the decisions made by the European lawmakers in terms of technology has released a set of rules which will further tighten the already imposed restrictions when it comes to privacy in Europe. The board had a meeting in which the law makers...

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Meta Hasn’t Changed Its Biased Algorithm Over a Year After Failing Civil Rights Audit

Back when Meta was still known as Facebook, it failed a civil rights audit that revealed that there were certain biases in its algorithm that needed to end up being changed. In fact, the auditor that conducted the audit went so far as to say that Facebook needed to make 117 changes in order to make...

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Facebook will give users a tad bit of control over what they will see on their news feed with its soon to be launched feature

Facebook has been stuck in a lot of allegations recently surrounding that they do not put user safety under consideration and also that a lot of misinformation circulates on their platform which Facebook doesn’t tend to control. While all this was keeping the social firm under hot waters, the...

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Metaverse, a virtual space far-fetched in the future is expected to generate a good sum, but analysts are concerned about these two associated factors

Metaverse. A term you must have heard a lot recently. This all began when Facebook launched its idea of a virtual reality space where users can create avatars and experience a virtual world with their friends and family, and do similar things they do in the present real world. While this idea is...

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Facebook has reduced the policy criteria surrounding social issue advertisements which it implemented back in 2016

Facebook during the 2016, US Presidential Elections and since after that had gotten pretty strict with the advertisement policies surrounding the social issues criteria. Any advertisements which highlighted social issues in their advertisement of any sort, needed to be fully authentic, verified and...

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