Social Media•30 October 2019•1 min readFacebook Planning Major WhatsApp ChangesA recent announcement revealed some big plans on the cards for Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp, some which users will no doubt be pleased about, and others, not so much. New…Read more→
Social Media•29 October 2019•1 min readFacebook's PTAT ScoreOne of the many metrics that Facebook makes available to you is the "PTAT" score, or "People Are Talking About This," but it's a metric that is not always well understood. It can…Read more→
Social Media•30 September 2019•3 min readFacebook Testing Hiding LikesAfter reverse engineer Jane Wong recently discovered some test Facebook code, and Facebook confirmed that it was considering hiding "likes," the popularity metric that they…Read more→
Social Media•30 August 2019•1 min readFacebook Rebrands Instagram & WhatsAppIn a move that appears to be quite widely derided, Facebook has decided that it is going to forcibly remind everybody who owns Instagram and WhatsApp, by officially rebranding…Read more→
News•31 July 2019•3 min readFacebook Currency A Potential Economic ThreatLate last month, following an on-going series of leaks about the project, Facebook officially announced its plans to launch their own, in-platform cryptocurrency, to be known as…Read more→
Social Media•28 June 2019•2 min readFacebook Shareholders Vote Against ZuckerbergAt the beginning of this month, Facebook revealed that outside investors had voted overwhelmingly in favour of a series of proposals to fire Mark Zuckerberg, owner and CEO of the…Read more→
News•31 May 2019•2 min readFacebook to Get Biggest Ever RedesignAt the end of last month, Facebook announced that it would be getting what will probably be the biggest ever redesign of the platform in 15 years. The new look was officially…Read more→
News•31 May 2019•1 min readFacebook CEO Facing Unprecedented ThreatMark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, Facebook Chairman, and controlling shareholder, has always made a point of ensuring that his power over Facebook is effectively unassailable, an…Read more→
News•29 April 2019•2 min readFacebook Facing Possible 5 Billion Dollar FineAfter the relatively recent Cambridge Analytica scandal which saw Facebook user data being harvested and used for political campaign purposes, the Federal Trade Commission in the…Read more→
Social Media•28 March 2019•1 min readFacebook Sues Chinese Companies for Selling Fake AccountsAccording to a report earlier this month, Facebook, and more specifically its Instagram division, are suing 4 companies based in China for promoting the sale of fake accounts,…Read more→
Social Media•30 January 2019•2 min readThe Facebook Anti-Suicide AlgorithmFollowing on from recent scandals surrounding the live-streaming of suicides on Facebook, the company last year launched an ambitious project to use artificial intelligence to…Read more→
News•29 October 2018•2 min read50 Million Facebook Accounts HackedAt the beginning of this month, Facebook announced that as many as 50 million user accounts had been compromised by hackers who took advantage of a vulnerability in the "View As"…Read more→
