Facebook has introduced a new feature to support group admins. Right now, Facebook is piloting subscriptions with a small number of groups. Facebook says that group admins have said they are looking for ways to help them earn money to deepen engagement with their members and to continue to support their communities. Facebook states that many admins do this by
Facebook announced that it is removing Trending soon to make way for future news experiences. Trending was launched in 2014 as a way to help people discover news topics that were popular across the Facebook community. Facebook is exploring ways to help people stay informed on Facebook. However, it was only available in five countries and accounted for less than
Facebook announced changes to the way the company manages ads and pages on Facebook and Instagram. The purpose is to increase transparency and accountability – and to prevent election interference. Last October, Facebook announced that only authorized advertisers would be able to run electoral ads on Facebook and Instagram. Now, Facebook is extending that requirement to anyone who wants to
Mozilla has created the Facebook Container Extension It functions similarly to Mozilla's Multi-Account Containers. The Facebook Container Extension was designed specifically to help Firefox users have more control of their data on Facebook. The Facebook Container Extension helps people who are using Firefox to control more of their web activity from Facebook by isolating your identity into a separate container.
When I first heard about Facebook Live, I thought it would be a good thing for people who like to play video games and livestream it in a way that made it easy for their Facebook friends to watch. Unfortunately, there are some people out there who have been using Facebook Live to commit acts of violence. Mark Zuckerberg says
Facebook has introduced a new way to share your location in Messenger. The new Live Location feature makes it simple and seamless for you to choose to share where you are in the real world with your friends and family. This is rolling out globally and is available on both iOS and Android. In a blog post, Facebook said: We've been
Facebook announced some updates that will give Facebook users new ways to watch Facebook video. It appears that the idea is to give users more flexibility on how and when they watch videos on Facebook. Previously, Facebook users would have videos in their News Feed that silently played. Those that wanted to hear the sound had to click on an individual