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Based on a statement by bgr.com, it seems that a hip hop group called City Morgue recently released an update on their Instastory claiming that Grand Theft Auto 6 will be released somewhere around Summer of 2020. Furthermore, it seems that the game will most likely be released around the time Sony’s Playstation 5 or Microsoft’s new Xbox Project Scarlett will be available for consumers to purchase.

Social media have been playing a significant role in this time as it allows users to express themselves freely and be heard. However, there are also some accounts that are exploiting the use of social media to distribute negative content such as hate speech, violence, child nudity, terrorism and more. For Facebook, they have been working hard on this issue to take down irrelevant content for years.

It seems like Facebook is doing a good job of keeping its younger generation of users on Instagram. However, the social media company is not stopping yet. It has developed a new feature that is similar to the one on TikTok and it's already released to Instagram users in Brazil. 

Yesterday, Facebook introduced a unifying payment service that works across Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram to the public. The payment service called ‘Facebook Pay’ has started to roll out to users in the US after its announcement. It is said that they are working on bringing the service to more countries as well!

In a recent interview, head of Instagram Adam Mosseri has mentioned that they will be testing out a small change that hides the “likes” counter on Instagram in the US. Adam has mentioned that at the start of the test, only a selected number of users in the country will be tested for now.

Stalking days are over! After the following tab got removed recently, Instagram is trying to get rid of stalkers as you will no longer be able to dig into public accounts without signing in to your account.

The Huawei Mate 30 series certainly got a buzz over the news, not because of its entry in the Malaysia market but the concerns of Google apps usage. The US government and Huawei are still in a rocky relationship, but someone might have found a loophole to bypass that. 

Instagram is consistently having new updates recently and one of the major update is the removal of the following tab feature that allowed users to spy on their friend’s activities. This feature used to enable users to follow the activities such as liked posts, commented posts, new subscriptions and many more from their friends they followed.

Following the footsteps of Instagram, Facebook will begin hiding likes on users’ posts starting later today. Only the original poster (OP) will only be able to see the number of reactions, views and likes. Us Malaysians don’t have to freak out just yet, though, as the experiment will be taking place in Australia for now.

Facebook has confirmed that they are thinking about testing the waters when it comes to hiding like counts. App researcher Jane Manchung Wong had found the code inside Facebook’s Android app.