Facebook today has announced that it is expanding fact-checking for photos and videos to all its 27 partners in 17 countries around the world. The company says that this will help identify and take action against more types of misinformation, faster. Continue reading “Facebook expands fact-checking to photos and videos in 17 countries”
Since it is a tiring job for moderators to look at every image or video posted on the enormous platform, the company is building an AI to help them out. The system it built is called Rosetta and is said to extract text from more than a billion public Facebook and Instagram images and video frames in a wide variety of languages, daily and in real time, and inputs it into a text recognition model that has been trained on classifiers to understand the context of the text and the image together. Continue reading “Facebook introduces Rosetta AI to identify text in images and videos”
Social networking giant Facebook has filed a 118-page complaint against BlackBerry Ltd in San Francisco federal court. As per the complaint, Facebook claimed that Blackberry of stealing its voice messaging technology and other patented technology as well. Continue reading “Facebook sues BlackBerry over patent infringement”
A year after the launch in the U.S, Facebook has announced the global roll-out of Facebook Watch, a video platform similar to YouTube and Netflix. As per the company, this feature allows the people to discover and engage more with the videos of their choice. Continue reading “Facebook Watch starts rolling out globally”
Recently, some user reported that their cross-posted tweets disappeared from Facebook suddenly. However, it became clear after some that Facebook has removed all tweets that user posted through cross-posting from Twitter. Continue reading “Facebook removes cross-posted Tweets after recent API change”
Facebook said that it’s testing out a new feature “things in common,” that would allow non-friends to connect. This feature would be present in the comment section and shows the things that are in common like if you live in the same city as someone or went to the same college. Facebook will highlight things you have in common with non-friends who have left comments. Continue reading “Facebook testing ‘things in common’ label to try to connect non-friends”
Facebook today has announced that it has banned ‘myPersonality app’ which was mainly active prior to 2012 on Facebook and failing to agree for audit. Since the app has shared information with researchers as well as companies with only limited protections in place, the company will notify 4 million people who chose to share their Facebook information with myPersonality that it may have been misused. Continue reading “Facebook bans myPersonality app for potentially misusing user-data”
Facebook is said to be testing its own speech recognition with the new “Aloha” voice feature for both the Facebook and Messenger apps, as well as external hardware. This again is being spotted by the famous app investigator Jane Manchun Wong giving us the first look at a prototype for the Aloha user interface. Continue reading “Facebook said to be working on ‘Aloha’ speech recognition”
Facebook back in April announced its plans to bring more authentic and transparent ways to ensure secure connections between users and page and communities. Now it is introducing Page publishing authorization starting with people that manage a Page with a large audience in the US. It is also adding primary country location and Page merge details to the Page Info tab that it introduced in June. Continue reading “Facebook pages with large audience in the US to require more authorization”
Facebook today has introduced ‘Connectivity’ which is its new umbrella organization that contains the company’s various Internet-for-all projects including the Internet.org. The aim of Connectivity is to bring internet access to the 4 billion people who still don’t have it and improve internet infrastructure in less-connected parts of the world. Continue reading “Facebook merges its Internet projects under ‘Connectivity’ to improve internet infrastructure”
Facebook today introduced a new way to connect with your friends in a video chat with multiplayer video chat AR games. This feature will allow upto six people to play at a time making the gaming experience much more interactive and social. Continue reading “Facebook Messenger gets interactive video chat AR Games”
Facebook at the F8 event back in May has introduced its ‘Dating Service’ and months after the announcement, Facebook is said to be testing its dating product internally with employees, according to the independent app researcher Jane Manchun Wong who found evidence of the product the within source code. Continue reading “Facebook starts testing its ‘Dating service’”
Facebook today announced new tools to help users of Instagram and Facebook manage their time; an activity dashboard. It is a daily reminder using which you can limit notifications and keep your usage in check. Facebook says that it developed these tools based on collaboration and inspiration from leading mental health experts and organizations, academics. Continue reading “Facebook and Instagram activity dashboard time management tool announced”
Facebook today has introduced a new experience called Watch Party to all Facebook Groups, after testing it earlier this year. It is a new way for people to watch videos on Facebook together in real time. Once the watch party is launched, participants can watch videos, live or recorded, and interact with one another around them in the same moment. Continue reading “Facebook launches ‘Watch Party’ to let groups watch videos together”
Facebook today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2018. The company has reported a total revenue of $13,231 million with a 42% growth compared to the $9,321 million from the same time last year. Facebook’s advertisement reported a $13,038 million from the entire revenue. Continue reading “Facebook reports $5.1 billion net income, 31% YoY growth in Q2 2018, has 2.23 billion monthly active users”
