News & Reviews: meta
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Feb 17, 2023
Meta has announced a new feature on Instagram that should be familiar to Telegram users. Essentially Meta’s take on Telegram channels, Instagram users can expect to see a “broadcast channels” feature on the mobile app soon.
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Feb 02, 2023
Meta-owned social media platform Facebook reached a milestone recently after it recorded 2 billion daily active users (DAU) for the very first time. The matter was revealed by Meta in its fourth-quarter earnings report.
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Jan 26, 2023
After being suspended for 2 years, Meta has decided that Donald Trump can use Facebook and Instagram once more in the next few weeks. This comes after he was not only suspended from Facebook and Instagram but also supposedly banned for life from Twitter back in 2021.
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Jan 20, 2023
Instagram has introduced a new feature called ‘Quiet Mode’ on its mobile app which the platform dubbed as ‘a new way to manage your time and focus’. When turned on, the feature will mute all notifications and send an auto-reply to anyone sending you a direct message (DM) on the app.
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Jan 10, 2023
Meta-owned social media platform Instagram has announced that it will be making a few changes to the app’s navigation to make it easier for people to share and connect with their friends and interests. Interestingly, the refresh also meant the complete removal of the Shop tab which is currently part of Instagram’s main menu tabs.
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Dec 07, 2022
Previously, we reported that Avatar is coming soon to WhatsApp and now, lo and behold, the feature is now available on the popular messaging platform. Announced by WhatsApp today, Avatar is a new and personalised way to express oneself on the app.
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Dec 06, 2022
Meta has announced that it is currently testing age verification tools on Facebook Dating, the dating feature on its Facebook app. The move was made so as to make the platform safer, more age-appropriate and to ensure that all users are 18 years old and above.
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Nov 29, 2022
WhatsApp is currently in the midst of rolling out a new feature to all its users that would allow them to chat with themselves. Aptly called ‘Message Yourself’, the feature was previously spotted on the beta version of WhatsApp by WABetaInfo but has now been officially ported to the full version of the messaging app.
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Nov 15, 2022
Previously, we reported that Meta is laying off more than 11,000 employees amidst a decline in revenue and now, more details have come out regarding the company’s workforce reduction. One of the more interesting detail that emerged from the whole situation is that Meta had an ongoing project to develop a smartwatch that would compete with the Apple Watch but the development has been scrapped as part of the company’s cost-cutting effort.
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Nov 09, 2022
Meta is about to follow Twitter's footsteps to have a big-scale employee layoff. Recently, CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared that the company would cut off about 13% of employees, around 11,000 jobs, through a blog post.
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