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Meta announced today that it’s adding support for longer Facebook Reels of up to 90 seconds, along with some new creative tools. Up until now, Facebook Reels were limited to 60 seconds. The changes comes several months after Meta launched support for longer Instagram Reels of up to 90 seconds. The expansion followed TikTok’s move […] Meta rolls out new Facebook Reels features, expands max video length to 90 seconds by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch... →

Former Facebook exec turned VC Chamath Palihapitiya has long been a controversial figure in the investing world. Both brilliant and combative, Palihapitiya came to be known most widely by ushering in the era of special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, beginning in the fall of 2019, when he helped Virgin Galactic become a publicly traded […] Chamath Palihapitiya: it could take three years for the market to “accurately” reprice late-stage cos by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch... →

Google's John Mueller was asked if it would help with web rankings in Google to embed reviews from sites like Facebook, Bing, Google, etc on your web site. John said, no, not for web search and he also warned us about not using structured data on those third-party site reviews.... →

Новая опция – часть подписки Meta Verified... →

Facebook Messenger* сместился на третье... →

Ранее компания отчиталась о падении прибыли... →

Для тех, кто оплачивает её на iOS, — за $14,99 в месяц.... →

Facebook parent Meta has launched a subscription service, called Meta Verified, that will allow individuals to “verify” themselves on Instagram and the marquee Facebook service and get the coveted blue budget and other additional features, branching to a new revenue channel that has had mixed success for its smaller rival Twitter. The subscription service, first […] Meta will also sell blue badge on Instagram and Facebook by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

At its Investor Day event on Thursday, Snap shared a handful of new metrics about its business and teased its prospects. Notably, it said its social media app Snapchat has now grown to over 750 million monthly active users. While the number falls far short of the roughly 2.96 billion monthly active users Facebook reported […] Snapchat announces 750 million monthly active users by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch... →

Meta today announced it’s making changes to increase transparency around ads. The company says it’s updating a nearly decade-old Facebook feature “Why am I seeing this ad?” to better explain to consumers how an AI technique called machine learning may have played a role in the ad’s placement, among other factors. Specifically, it will now […] Meta improves its consumer-facing tool that explains why you’re seeing that ad by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch... →

As Meta gears up for its “year of efficiency,” the company announced today it’s exiting the livestream shopping business on Instagram, following a similar shutdown on Facebook. Starting on March 16, 2023, Instagram users will no longer be able to tag products while livestreaming — a capability that has been broadly available to U.S. businesses […] Instagram is killing live shopping in March, will focus on ads instead by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch... →

A Reddit thread, spotted via Areej AbuAli on Twitter, says that there is an SEO guy who travels across multiple regions in Europe to upload photos to Facebook from that local region. The SEO claims it helps with "better reach and ranking in the eyes of the algos."... →

GraphQL, developed internally at Facebook to help developers with API management before getting rolled out as an open-source query language in 2015, has gained traction as an alternative (or complement) to REST and other tools. Airbnb, Pinterest, PayPal and of course Facebook parent Meta are among the companies using it. Now, to raise its profile […] IBM acquires GraphQL startup StepZen to step up its game in API management by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

Facebook’s murky history of letting third party apps help themselves to user data which you may recall blew up into a major global privacy scandal back in 2018 (aka, Cambridge Analytica), gouging the company’s stock price, leading to its founder being hauled in front of Congress — and finally, in mid 2019, to a $5BN […] Senate committee presses Meta over data access by developers in “high risk” countries, per 2018 app audit by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch... →

Facebook announced today that it’s introducing more comment moderation tools and controls to make it easier for creators to manage conversations on the social network. Creators will now be able to search comments by keywords, including emojis, commenter names and dates, on their posts and take bulk actions, such as liking or hiding. These new […] Facebook rolls out new comment moderation tools for creators by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch... →

If you’re tired of unwieldy conversations on Discord, or abandoned Facebook groups that no one uses anymore, Frond has an alternative. Launching today, Frond is a tool for building communities online. At the helm are Matt Blackshaw, founder of Sold, and Jan Senderek, who founded Loom; both companies were sold to Dropbox. On Frond, you […] Frond is a witty cross between Discord and Facebook groups by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch... →

More drama is afoot for Facebook’s parent company Meta on the African continent. A Kenyan court today rejected Meta’s request to be removed as party in a lawsuit filed last year against it and Sama, its main subcontractor for content moderation in Africa. Together, the two are being accused of exploitation and union busting. Meta […] Meta fails in bid to be removed as a party from an exploitation lawsuit against it and moderation partner Sama in Kenya by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch... →

Meta судиться с компаниями, которые пытались заниматься автоматизированным собором данных о пользователях Facebook и Instagram, на при этом сама платила за такой же сбор информации с чужих сайтов. .... →

Online pharmacy GoodRx has agreed to pay $1.5 million in civil penalties for years of sharing the health information of consumers with third parties like Facebook, Google, and Criteo for advertising purposes, the Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday. In a complaint filed in a California federal court, the FTC accused the healthcare and telemedicine giant […] FTC slaps online pharmacy GoodRx for sharing users’ health data with Facebook and Google by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch... →

A bug in a new centralized system that Meta created for users to manage their logins for Facebook and Instagram could have allowed malicious hackers to switch off an account’s two-factor protections just by knowing their email address or phone number. Gtm Mänôz, a security researcher from Nepal, realized that Meta did not set up […] Hacker finds bug that allowed anyone to bypass Facebook 2FA by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai originally published on TechCrunch... →