Facebook has released its annual ‘Topics and Trends’ report, the report outlines the main topics that saw increased discussion across both Facebook and Instagram in 2020. The addition of Instagram data is new for this year’s report – as explained by Facebook: “We explored thousands of topics that grew on Facebook and – for the …
Facebook has announced new resources in order to better support black-owned businesses, as part of the company’s huge effort to address racial inequality in the US. In light of that Facebook explains: “Black-owned businesses have faced systemic barriers for generations – and the huge amount of interest we received from these businesses has confirmed just …
Recently, Facebook launched a new video series, and it was showcasing interviews with internal experts who are working on specific platform tolls to provide more insight into how each tool works, and how users can make use out of the different functions Facebook has to offer. The first video in the series looked at Creator …
Recently, Facebook has reported that she invested more than $1 billion to develop a new sub-sea cable link which is designed to improve the connectivity in Africa, besides connecting more people to the internet, that means when people connect to the internet that will also encourage them to become Facebook users. Facebook Internet Sea Cable …
Facebook is approaching community reviewers to help outsourced organizations of fact checkers address false claims faster. After conducting a test run in the United States in the next few months, Facebook is hiring a “diverse group of community reviewers” as contractors through one of their program partners. The community reviewers will submit their initial review …
Facebook announced an initial commitment of $130 million to launch its new Oversight Board, which is designed as a way for users to appeal the social giant’s content decisions, but the entity is behind schedule with initial board members to be announced in 2020. The Oversight Board — which has been dubbed Facebook’s “Supreme Court” …
Two months ago, Facebook published a white paper that sought to address some of the key issues involved in making data portable between online services. Now, Facebook has launched a tool to free media stored on the platform. The new image transfer tool will let users copy all their photos and videos from Facebook to …
A March 2019 legal settlement between civil rights groups and Facebook has consequences that are coming to light. Advertisers, including auto dealers and anyone linking to credit or APR financing offers, will suffer major changes and restrictions to the way Facebook ad targeting is done. The settlement resulted from accusations of unlawful discrimination against minorities, …