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This month we’re celebrating Messenger’s 10th birthday! 🎂 We’re grateful to everyone who’s joined us in creating 10 years of memories built from countless chat threads, late night video calls, sharing the latest meme GIFs and picking out the perfect emoji or sticker to capture the mood.  We’ve pulled together a birthday bundle of 10 product features — many of which are starting to roll out today — that will help you create more memories with your friends and family and feel closer together. Poll Your Friends with “Most Likely To” Games Today, we’re introducing Poll Games on Messenger. You can now play “Most likely to” in polls to help you discover what your friends really think about topics like who is “most likely to give gifts on their own birthday? 🥳”, “most likely to fight zombies while everyone else runs away? 🧟‍♀️” and “most likely to miss their flight? ✈️”, or you can write your own prompt. To play a poll game in your group chat, tap Polls and select the “Most likely to” tab to pick a question and select the names of chat participants to be included as potential answers.  » Read More

By David Cohen4 hours ago Messenger From Facebook is celebrating its 10th birthday this month with a bundle of 10 new features, most of which will debut Wednesday (Aug. 25). David Cohen @9Number9 david.cohen@adweek.com David Cohen is editor of Adweek's Social Pro Daily. Recommended articles  » Read More

Linda Almond drowned in the Tennessee floods after she livestreamed it on Facebook. Facebook A Tennessee woman drowned in the rising floodwaters after she livestreamed the deluge on social media. The death took place during the catastrophic flash flooding in Tennessee that has left at least 22 people dead. Linda Almond went live on Facebook around 10:15 a.m. on Saturday morning, showing the deadly situation developing around her home in Waverly, Tennessee. The one minute video would be her final words to the world before she was carried away. “Well, if anybody’s seeing me on Facebook Live, we’re being flooded right now in Waverly, Tennessee. Really scary,” Almond’s quivering voice says in the video. She shows the mud-brown water filled with debris ripping past her home. She then lights a cigarette. “Whoa. Whoa,” she says at one point, after something seems to have suddenly changed. The Facebook video showed the deadly situation developing around her home.Facebook “I think something just hit the side of the house,” a male voice says off-camera,  » Read More

Hey Facebook Fix your System Today I got myself banned on Facebook for 24 hours. The reason was that Facebook’s algorithm thought I was posting pornographic pictures. In my defense any human being can quickly see that this is not porn. It is a slide of NASA Astronauts in Skylab. It was part of a talk that I was attending. This is what I posted that got me banned from Facebook: I didn’t realize it until now that the FB community considered the picture of NASA astronauts as nudes!! I was offered a chance to dispute this. I did dispute it. I wanted it to know that a human being disputed the machine. (Rage against the machine). By sending the dispute, I had hope to send a signal to the algorithm that it needed to recalibrate. So I chose that option to let FB know that its algorithm is way off. However, “due to the covid pandemic”, there wasn’t going to be enough reviewers to get to my case and remove the lock.  » Read More

by: Nexstar Media Wire Posted: Aug 20, 2021 / 02:06 PM CDT / Updated: Aug 20, 2021 / 02:06 PM CDT CHESTERFIELD, Mo. – The name Terrell Moore might not ring a bell. But the 27-year-old is well-known to police throughout the St. Louis area, particularly in communities where there’s a shopping mall. “There are people who we arrest every day for shoplifting. Everyone knows who Terrell Moore is – he’s the biggest booster in St. Louis,” Chesterfield Police Officer Jason Bromwich told KTVI. Bromwich is a member of the department’s Special Enforcement Unit (SEU). Since 2017, he’s been tracking Moore’s move at both stores and online. As it turns out, Moore’s presence on social media is big, and it’s led to big money. Bromwich said Moore is a habitual shoplifter who would steal from stores throughout Missouri and then sell the items over Facebook. That’s why investigators launched an investigation and began examining Moore’s Facebook page, which was open to the public.  » Read More

TechCheckChris Kelly, former Facebook general counsel and head of public policy, joins 'TechCheck' to discuss Facebook's latest antitrust battle with the U.S. government.03:499 minutes ago  » Read More

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image captionLizzo spoke out after the release of her latest video prompted negative reaction onlineFacebook and Instagram have removed several hateful comments on US singer Lizzo's social media accounts.The move comes after the singer spoke tearfully about the "hurtful" abuse she'd received on social media. A spokesman for Facebook told The Hollywood Reporter the comments which had been removed broke the company's rules about hate speech and harassment.Earlier this week, Lizzo said she had received attacks online which were "fatphobic" and "racist".Lizzo, real name Melissa Jefferson, has become a successful recording artist in recent years thanks to hits such as Juice and Good as Hell.However, the release of the video for her latest single Rumours, a collaboration with Cardi B, prompted some negative reaction online.During an Instagram Live on Sunday, Lizzo said: "On the days when I should feel the happiest, I feel so down. Sometimes I feel like the world just don't love me back. It's like it doesn't matter how much positive energy you put into the world,  » Read More

Facebook said Wednesday it's seeing signs that resistance to the COVID-19 vaccine is weakening both in the United States and abroad, though it acknowledged it still doesn't have hard numbers on how frequently misinformation is being shared on its platforms.Why it matters: Facebook touts a survey showing improved attitudes toward the vaccines, but that survey finding raises questions, as other polling has shown significant and entrenched hesitancy, especially in the U.S. It also doesn't show that Facebook or other social media can be credited for the shift. When it comes to the spread of hate speech, child exploitation and other types of problematic content, Facebook says the key metric is prevalence — that is, how often such content is shown — and points to declines in such information appearing on its site. Hate speech, for example, represents just five posts in 10,000.However, Facebook said it doesn't yet have data to share when it comes to COVID-19 misinformation.Instead, Facebook points to other statistics, such as how many times people viewed authoritative content about the vaccine,  » Read More

Facebook and its entities Instagram and WhatsApp reaffirmed their ban on Taliban-related accounts Wednesday, citing the company's "Dangerous Individuals and Organizations" policy, the New York Times reports.Why it matters: How social media companies choose to handle the Taliban's victory in Afghanistan will impact how effectively the group is able to communicate to the people it will now govern.Stay on top of the latest market trends and economic insights with Axios Markets. Subscribe for free“The decisions that are made by Facebook and Twitter in the next couple of days will have a direct impact on the lives on the many people who find themselves under the Taliban’s rule,” the Atlantic Council's Emerson Brooking told Bloomberg Monday.Between the lines: Taliban leaders have sought to dial down their rhetoric since the days of their totalitarian rule in the 1990s, vowing to grant "amnesty" to supporters of the Afghan government and honor women's rights within the "frameworks" of Islamic law.  » Read More