Свежие новости и отзывы о Facebook

In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between people using Snapchat’s app and its servers. The goal was to understand users’ behavior and help Facebook compete with Snapchat, according to newly unsealed court documents. Facebook called this “Project Ghostbusters,” in a clear reference to Snapchat’s ghost-like logo. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The European Union has given its strongest signal yet that a controversial tactic rolled out by Meta last November to extract consent to tracking from regional users of Facebook and Instagram — by forcing them to choose between paying a monthly subscription or else agree to tracking — won’t wash under the bloc’s updated digital […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Remember when you would “poke” your friends on Facebook to get their attention, annoy them or just start a poke war? Well, Facebook is trying to bring back that experience with some small updates to the poking feature. The company announced on Tuesday that it recently improved the platform’s suggestions on who to poke and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Meta has proposed to drop the price of an ad-free subscription in the European Union — currently the only way regional users of its social networks, Facebook and Instagram, can avoid its tracking and profiling. Meta’s lawyer Tim Lamb revealed the detail at a workshop taking place in Brussels today to discuss its approach to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Случайно замеченный пост в Facebook привел к интересным наблюдениям — и про стартапы, и про менеджмент, и про, извините, своеобразное мышление некоторых личностей. Итак, вот встреченный пост — автор Илья Красильщик, который начинал карьеру руководителем группы асессоров в Яндексе, потом поруководил Медузой, а потом вернулся в Яндекс и занялся проектом Лавка (доставка свежих продуктов, аналог Instacart, если я правильно понимаю), а теперь эмигрировал из рф, осел в Берлине и ищет себе применение…... →

Meta is facing a call from lawmakers in the European Union to scrap its controversial “consent or pay” tactic on Facebook and Instagram. Currently, the company demands a per-account fee of €9.99/month on web or €12.99/month on mobile for users in the region wanting to avoid its tracking. No other choice is offered — meaning […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The European Commission has sent a series of formal requests for information (RFI) to Google, Meta, Microsoft, Snap, TikTok and X about how they’re handling risks related to the use of generative AI. The asks, which relate to Bing, Facebook, Google Search, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, and X, are being made under the Digital Services […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Several social media websites are experiencing outages on Tuesday morning. YouTube confirmed that some users are having trouble loading videos on the platform; meanwhile, platforms like Discord and Meta’s Threads, Facebook and Instagram are down as well. According to a post on Google’s support page, users may be experiencing an empty home page, error messages, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

As Meta’s Instagram, Facebook and Threads and went down this morning, Discord is now also experiencing issues and is down for some users. The company’s status website states that it is currently looking at the issue. According to third party monitoring website DownDetector, the issues began at around 10:50 AM ET. Users are reporting that […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Reports are coming in that a number of Meta’s top social apps, including Facebook and Instagram, as well as its new app Threads, are all experiencing an outage on Tuesday morning. When loading the apps or websites, users receive an error message that “something went wrong” and to try again later, or, in the case […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Meta’s controversial pay or be tracked ‘consent’ choice for users the European Union is facing questions from the European Commission. Today the bloc said it’s sent Facebook and Instagram’s owner a formal request for information (RFI) under the Digital Services Act (DSA), asking it to provide more detail on the “Subscription for no Ads options” […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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Meta is trying to distance itself from news media-related regulations and payment complexities as it is planning to remove the news tab on Facebook in the U.S. and Australia. The company said today that it will sunset the product in April 2024. Last year, Meta discontinued Facebook News in the UK, Germany, and France saying […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

A technology company that routes millions of SMS text messages across the world has secured an exposed database that was spilling one-time security codes that may have granted users’ access to their Facebook, Google and TikTok accounts. The Asian technology and internet company YX International manufactures cellular networking equipment and provides SMS text message routing […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

A controversial move by Meta last year, when it switched to charging users in the Europe Union for an ad-free subscription for access Facebook and/or Instagram unless they agreed to be tracked and profiled so it could keep running its attention-mining microtargeting ad business, has triggered a set of complaints from consumer rights groups. The […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The Supreme Court is considering the fate of two state laws that limit how social media companies can moderate the content on their platforms. In oral arguments on Monday, the justices grappled with a thorny set of questions that could reshape the internet, from social networks like Facebook and TikTok to apps like Yelp and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Facebook, Instagram, Snap, YouTube, and other social networking companies offer programs to connect creators with brands, and now Spotify is doing the same. The company announced the launch of AUX, its new in-house “music advisory agency” for brands. While not necessarily a creator marketplace, the program has a similar aim — it will facilitate connections […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The New York-based startup collects data via profile attributes specified by the brand in order to personalize the homepage, product description pages, emails and SMS.  © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Meta’s external advisory group, its Oversight Board, announced today that it is expanding its scope to Threads along with Facebook and Instagram to scrutinize Meta’s content moderation decisions. This means if users on Threads are unsatisfied with Meta’s decision on issues like content or account takedown, they can appeal to the Oversight Board. “The Board’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Threads may be about to get another big boost from parent company Meta…at least in terms of sources of new content. The company has been spotted testing a cross-posting feature that would allow Facebook users to post to both platforms at the same time, using the same feature that was originally available for cross-posting from […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →