Facebook News & Updates

[Bapun]

Teens are ditching Facebook, study confirms

 

[sumitroy]

We’re removing Trending soon to make way for future news experiences on Facebook. We introduced Trending in 2014 as a way to help people discover news topics that were popular across the Facebook community.

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/06/removing-trending/

 

[sumitroy]

The company formed data-sharing partnerships with Apple, Samsung and dozens of other device makers, raising new concerns about its privacy protections.

Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends

 

[Bapun]

Facebook allows videos with copyrighted music, tests Lip Sync Live

 

[Bapun]

Facebook says it gave Huawei and other Chinese firms access to user data

 

[sumitroy]

Facebook is again at the center of a privacy controversy after revealing today that it had been inadvertently sharing private posts publicly for some 14 million users.
When attempting to test a feature on users’ profiles, developers introduced a bug that exposed the posts of some individuals who thought they were posting privately, Facebook revealed.

Facebook's latest blunder made private posts public for 14M users

 

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Facebook Messenger to scale back “You Are Now Connected on Messenger” alertsFacebook Messenger sends "You Are Now Connected on Messenger" alert every time the user makes a new friend on Facebook and has the Messenger app installed on their device.FacebookMessenger will reportedly stop sending “You Are Now Connected on Messenger” alerts to people who never open them to start a chat thread. According to a report in TechCrunch, thesocial media giant is already in the process of scaling back the alerts. Facebook will take advantage of machine learning to identify people who do not open the alert and send fewer them fewer of these over time.
Facebook Messenger to scale back “You Are Now Connected on Messenger” alerts

 

[sumitroy]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1006219533756063746

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[somnath chakraborty]

Facebook will soon let you track time spent on its app, set daily remindersFacebook is reportedly working on a new feature that will allow users to see and monitor the amount of time they spend on the mobile app.
Facebook will soon let you track time spent on its app, set daily reminders

 

[Bapun]

Letting People Know About a Blocking Bug | Facebook Newsroom
In the case of this bug:

• It did not reinstate any friend connections that had been severed;
• 83% of people affected by the bug had only one person they had blocked temporarily unblocked; and
• Someone who was unblocked might have been able to contact people on Messenger who had blocked them.

This issue has now been fixed and everyone has been blocked again. People who were affected will get a notification on Facebook encouraging them to check their blocked list.