News & Reviews:   Facebook Malaysia

Facebook Malaysia announced their third-party fact-checking program today by partnering with Agence France-Presse (AFP) to review and rate the accuracy of stories, photos and videos on Facebook in Malaysia. When third-party fact-checkers like AFP rates a story or content as false it will appear lower in your News Feed and those who shared it will be notified.

Facebook Malaysia has just moved into a new, larger office. With it, it aims to bring much improvement and waves of development to the country by introducing high-speed internet via the Terragraph as well as empowering small businesses in Malaysia with the necessary skills and tools.

A shocking update has been added onto an article on Facebook’s Newsroom that was published 4 weeks ago. It mentions that millions of Instagram users’ passwords had been stored in a readable format for all of their employees to see.

Have you ever scrolled through Facebook and wondered why you’re seeing certain things on your timeline? Facebook has finally come through with an answer for you through their new tool called "Why am I seeing this?"

The horror! Facebook’s family of apps which include Instagram, Facebook, FB Messenger and Whatsapp has been down for the past few hours now. The problem not only affects us Malaysians but everyone around the world.

Dark mode is honestly such a blessing to the eyes, especially when you’re using apps so late at night. Apps like Youtube, Twitch, Twitter and more now have Dark mode on their apps. It’s only taken forever but FB Messenger finally has Dark mode.

Ever accidentally send a message to your crush on Facebook Messenger and reply “oops, wrong person” as a cover up? Yeah, we feel you. You won’t have to suffer that fate any longer as you can now delete messages on there (at least, within 10 minutes).

Despite the fact that WhatsApp, Instagram and FB Messenger all belong under Facebook, the social media platform has seen a huge decline in its user engagement on their platform compared to the rest. This probably has led to the reason why Facebook is looking to unifi Facebook with WhatsApp, FB Messenger and Instagram.

Facebook recently announced that they are introducing their Watch platform to select mobile, laptop, desktop and TV app users in the US and it will be a video-centric platform to watch and discover videos. In short, this is Facebook's answer to YouTube. According to them, curated content is being currently being created, and according to TechCrunch, content creators will get a 55% share of ad break revenue.

This week, the biggest news began with the cancellation of Intel processors for mobile, effectively announcing their withdrawal from the smartphone and mobile industry, at least for now. We might see some Intel 5G LTE processors in the future, but it basically means that there will likely be no Intel powered smartphones this year.

Second biggest was the regional announcement of the Huawei P9, P9 Plus and P9 Lite, due for a Malaysia release date after May 2016. The folks at honor celebrated their 2nd Anniversary to #seastheday while Huawei continued the streak by announcing the Huawei G9 Lite and MediaPad M2 7.0.