Tag: Mark Zuckerberg

April 18, 2023

Instagram is adding what Mark Zuckerberg describes as “one of the most requested features we’ve had.” Starting today, you can now add up to five links to your Instagram bio, resolving a long-standing feature gap that forced Instagram users to […]

December 30, 2022

Most signs point to the fact that the hypothetical future described in cyberpunk novels is already here—almost everything is now digitalized and people conduct most of their activities online. Today, alternative virtual realities are just a click away, and gaming […]

October 14, 2022

Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg have been throwing jabs at each other ever since Apple, with iOS 14.5, introduced its App Tracking Transparency feature. The feature essentially allows users to control which apps and websites can track their behavior. And […]

September 6, 2022

Meta has announced that its Connect Conference will be livestreamed on October 11th at 1PM ET / 10AM PT. In a post on the Oculus blog, the company says it’ll cover the progress it’s made on the metaverse and offer […]

August 31, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg is betting his company’s future on the metaverse — a virtual space in which people interact with each other using avatars and developing AR / VR technology — investing tens of billions of dollars in an attempt to […]

July 27, 2022

Earlier this week, Instagram head Adam Mosseri shared a video on Twitter (yeah, the irony) to tell people that Instagram will “continue to support photos” as multiple users have been complaining about how the platform is pushing random videos into […]

July 27, 2022

If you already have strong feelings about your Instagram feed increasingly showing Reels from accounts you don’t follow, just wait until next year. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company will more than double the amount of content from recommended […]

June 20, 2022

Meta’s Reality Labs division has revealed new prototypes in its roadmap toward lightweight, hyper-realistic virtual reality graphics. The breakthroughs remain far from consumer-ready, but the designs — codenamed Butterscotch, Starburst, Holocake 2, and Mirror Lake — could add up to […]

February 2, 2022

Facebook was one of the main companies affected by Apple’s new privacy policies, which now require iOS apps to ask users if they want to be tracked by third parties. During the Q4 2021 earnings report on Wednesday, CEO of […]

October 6, 2021

Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp are now back. However, this was one of the longest downtime moments for Mark Zuckerberg’s social media and messaging empire. Yes, in case you didn’t know – all four apps (amongst others) are under the […]

February 11, 2021

It’s been less than a week since Mark Zuckerberg made a guest appearance on audio-chat app Clubhouse and now, according to a report from The New York Times, Facebook is building its own version. Two sources “with knowledge of the […]

January 29, 2021

Facebook and Apple’s public brawl over privacy concerns and monopoly power just got even more intense. Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke at the European Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference on Thursday. He seemed to deliver harsh words for Facebook […]

July 2, 2020

Facebook will pin a box with information about voter registration on the top of the News Feed for every US user who is of voting age starting tomorrow, July 3rd, the company announced today. The box, once it’s live, will […]

June 17, 2020

Critics say Facebook is actively enabling the spread of political misinformation online, but the social network has now come up with its own idiosyncratic solution: shift responsibility to the public at large by letting users “turn off” political ads they […]

April 22, 2020

With kids at home and schools closed, the use of apps for communication between friends and family has understandably increased. One such app, Facebook’s Messenger Kids, was launched on Android, iOS and Amazon’s Appstore in early 2018, and is now […]

April 20, 2020

Two weeks after beginning to survey users about disease symptoms in an effort to track the spread of COVID-19, Facebook said Monday that early results showed promise — and that the effort will roll out internationally beginning Wednesday. Carnegie Mellon […]

March 19, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is now surging around the world, and each hour brings more developments than a full day seemed to bring just a few weeks ago. On Wednesday morning, Facebook held a call with CEO Mark Zuckerberg to update […]

March 4, 2020

Facebook is letting the World Health Organization (WHO) advertise for free in an effort to combat misinformation on the global coronavirus outbreak. The social network wants you to feel confident that updates are “credible and accurate,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said […]

January 29, 2020

If you’ve ever wanted more control over the data Facebook collects about you, then you can pretend to have it, just as Facebook is pretending it’s giving that control to you. Facebook announced that it let you decouple all the […]

October 10, 2019

Yesterday here we talked about whether politicians should be able to lie in their Facebook ads. I argued that they should be: Facebook ads are public and searchable, and if a politician or political party is out there telling lies, […]