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FP TrendingAug 29, 2022 14:40:48 ISTInstagram has announced that it is rolling out new features and updates to Reels, including cross-posting from Instagram to Facebook. Taking to Twitter, Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram announced the new updates for Instagram Reels. “We are launching a few new Reels features to make it fun and easy for people to find + share more entertaining content — ‘Add Yours’ Sticker, IG-to-FB Crossposting, FB Reels Insights,” Mosseri captioned the video on Twitter. 📣 Reels Updates 📣We’re launching a few new Reels features to make it fun and easy for people to find + share more entertaining content: - ‘Add Yours’ Sticker - IG-to-FB Crossposting - FB Reels Insights Have a favorite? Let me know 👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/RwjnRu5om2— Adam Mosseri (@mosseri) August 16, 2022 With the tap of a button, the new update allows users to cross-post Reels from Instagram to Facebook.  » Read More

WEBSITE OF THE YEARAPP OF THE YEAR29 Aug, 2022 07:53 AM4 mins to readLabour MP Gaurav Sharma leaving after being expelled from caucus. Photo / Mark Mitchell.A former staff member of exiled MP Gaurav Sharma said he needs to move on with his life and not post lengthy social media essays about the alleged poor performance of his former staff.Sharma posted a 4700-word post about what he alleged was poor performance of his former staff and the way his complaints were handled by Parliamentary Service and the Labour Party.One former staff member speaking to the Herald anonymously urged Sharma to move on."Stop dragging this out," they said."This is a breach of our confidentiality. It's bringing up past trauma - we've already lived it once," they said.The staffer had previously spoken to the Herald about how Parliamentary Service, the employer of staff who work at Parliament and in electorates,  » Read More

Facebook has agreed "in principle", to settle the Cambridge Analytica lawsuit that claims damages from the social media company for allegedly giving third parties access to personal data of millions of users. As per a document filed by Facebook in a San Francisco court, the company said that it was submitting a draft "agreement in principle" and has requested a stay of proceedings for 60 days to finalize it. Facebook hasn't disclosed any amount or terms of the agreement. AFP quoted Facebook as saying that the company had "no comment to share at this time." The development has come up as date of court testimony of Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg approaches. He and Facebook's former chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg are due to testify in court in September. Watch | Lawsuit: Facebook violated consumer privacy laws, agrees to settle In a lawsuit initiated in 2018, Facebook users accused the social network of violating privacy rules by sharing their data with third parties including the firm Cambridge Analytica,  » Read More

NEW YORK (AP) — The MTV Video Music Awards are back Sunday with some of the biggest names in music vying for the network’s fabled Moon Person statue.Lil Nas X, Jack Harlow and Kendrick Lamar are tied for leading nominees with seven apiece. Harlow and Lil Nas X’s collaboration “Industry Baby” propelled their nominations, landing them in competition for artist of the year along with Drake, Bad Bunny, Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles and Lizzo.Closely behind are Harry Styles and Doja Cat, who received six nominations apiece, while Sheeran, Billie Eilish, Drake, Dua Lipa, Tayler Swift and The Weeknd each have five.Harlow is pulling double duty, joining LL Cool J and Nicki Minaj as the show’s emcees. The VMAs are being being held at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, and will air beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern.Minaj will perform hits from throughout her career and accept the show’s video vanguard award, which MTV has said she’s receiving for her artistry,  » Read More

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988.A Massachusetts woman suspected in a triple murder-suicide earlier this week reportedly wrote a Facebook post, accusing her brother-in-law and father of abusing other family members. Khosay Sharifi, 31, killed her father, Mohammad Sharifi, 66, her bother-in-law, Sanjar Halin, 34, and her brother-in-law’s father Abdul Halin, 56 on Tuesday before shooting herself, police say.Her father and brother-in-law were found dead at a home on Rockaway Street in Lynn, Massachusetts while her brother-in-law’s father was found in his car not far away. Sharifi’s body was also found nearby in her car outside of a supermarket.  On the same day, Sharifi, who died of a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound, made the abuse accusations on Facebook, according to the Boston Globe. 4 FAMILY MEMBERS DEAD IN APPARENT MURDER-SUICIDE INCIDENT IN MASSACHUSETTS Khosay Sharifi is accused of killing her father,  » Read More

Facebook has agreed to settle a lawsuit in the San Francisco federal court seeking damages for letting third parties including Cambridge Analytica access the private data of users.  So far the financial terms have not been disclosed and the judge will put the class action on hold for 60 days until the lawyers for both plaintiffs and Facebook finalize a written settlement. Facebook has however said its privacy practices are consistent with its disclosures and "do not support any legal claims". The case sprang from 2018 revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a firm with ties to Trump political strategist Stephen Bannon, had paid a Facebook app developer for access to the personal information of about 87 million Facebook users. That data was then used to target US voters during the 2016 campaign that culminated in Trump's election as the 45th president. The ensuring uproar led to a contrite Zuckerberg being grilled by lawmakers during a high-profile congressional hearing and spurred calls for people to delete their Facebook accounts. Even though Facebook's growth has stalled as more people connect and entertain themselves on rival services such as TikTok,  » Read More

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week told popular podcaster Joe Rogan that Facebook did limit stories on the news feed related to the New York Post story about President Biden’s son Hunter Biden and his laptop after warnings from the FBI, but defended the law enforcement agency as a “legitimate institution.” Zuckerberg said on an episode of Rogan’s podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” that was uploaded on Thursday that the FBI reached out to his company ahead of the 2020 presidential election to warn them to take note of potentially polarizing content. This warning came after Russia used social media platforms, including Facebook, to post content intended to be polarizing ahead of the 2016 election.  Zuckerberg said he took the warning seriously. He said the social media platform did not ban people from sharing the Post’s story, but it took action to limit how often the story appeared on feeds.  The Post reported shortly before the 2020 election that the FBI obtained a laptop that allegedly belonged to Hunter Biden as part of a federal investigation into him.   » Read More

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview released Thursday that Facebook suppressed the New York Post’s report about Hunter Biden’s laptop after the FBI warned the tech giant about misinformation. Asked by podcast host Joe Rogan about Facebook’s approach to the Hunter Biden report, published in October 2020, Zuckerberg said, “The background here is the FBI, I think, basically came to us … and was like, Hey, just so you know, like you should be on high alert. … We thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election. We have it on notice that basically there’s about to be some kind of dump … that’s similar to that.” The Meta CEO contrasted Facebook’s approach with Twitter, which completely banned sharing the Post article. “The distribution on Facebook was decreased, but people were still allowed to share it,” Zuckerberg said on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast. noting that the social media giant was waiting on fact checkers to give a verdict on the report “So you could still share it.  » Read More

SINGAPORE: Tech giants Twitter and Meta in recent weeks removed social media accounts promoting pro-Western narratives that supported the United States and its allies while opposing countries like China and Russia, according to a report released on Wednesday (Aug 24).  The joint study by the Stanford Internet Observatory - a programme at Stanford University studying the abuse of the Internet - and social media analytics firm Graphika points to the first time covert pro-Western influence operations have been identified and taken down on social media. "With few exceptions, the study of modern influence operations has overwhelmingly focused on activity linked to authoritarian regimes in countries such as Russia, China, and Iran, with recent growth in research on the integral role played by private entities," the report stated.  Data provided by Twitter and Facebook parent firm Meta to the researchers showed a series of covert campaigns that ran over a period of almost five years on various social media platforms, including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.  An "interconnected web" of accounts on those platforms used deceptive tactics to promote pro-Western narratives in the Middle East and Central Asia.   » Read More

Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet.Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have taken down a series of accounts that appeared to be running a Russian-language, pro-U.S. influence operation, according to researchers from the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) and Graphika, a private research company. The campaign lasted for almost five years, according to the researchers.The tactics used closely mirror those that the Russian government deployed in the United States during the 2016 election; this time, however, the memes, petitions, fake news, AI-altered profile photos, propaganda, and hashtags deployed were pro-U.S., anti-Russia, and seemingly designed to undermine Russia, China, Iran, and other authoritarian countries, according to the study.The news highlights an obvious fact but one that rarely receives substantial analysis: that U.S. leaning social media influence campaigns are, ultimately, very similar to those run by adversarial countries. “These findings unveil what we believe are the first major covert pro-America and Western operations identified and suspended by Twitter and Meta,” Renée DiResta,  » Read More