[ad_1] has revealed more details about how third-party messaging apps can be interoperable with and . The company is being required to to a certain extent to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a new European Union law that comes into effect this week. “We think the best way to deliver interoperability is through … Read more
[ad_1] A group of 41 state attorneys general are demanding that Meta step up its support services for users who have been victims of hacks and account takeovers. “We refuse to operate as the customer service representatives of your company,” the group writes in a letter addressed to Meta’s chief legal officer. “We request Meta … Read more
[ad_1] Facebook, Instagram and other Meta platforms suffered a significant outage on the morning of Super Tuesday. Experts at two organizations that monitor internet traffic, Kentik and NetBlocks, confirmed that Meta’s various companies — Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Messenger — were experiencing a major drop in traffic. The outages are related to how users log in and … Read more
[ad_1] Instagram launched direct messaging tools way back in 2013, but there hasn’t been a way to edit them after the fact. That changes today. Meta just rolled out a software update for the Instagram app that with one major caveat. You only have 15 minutes to make any changes. Here’s how it works. Once … Read more
[ad_1] Meta is starting to bring the Threads API online, though it will still be some time before it’s widely accessible to developers. The company has begun testing its new developer tools with a handful of companies, Meta engineer Jesse Chen shared in on Threads. According to Chen, whose post was first spotted by TechCrunch, … Read more
[ad_1] Axios, a site known for political analysis and extensive use of bullet points, has joined the ranks of pundits fawning over Mark Zuckerberg’s PR strategy. The Meta CEO, they claim, is (as originally headlined) “having a PR moment” which is “casting a halo effect on the company itself.” That’s obviously untrue, but let’s say … Read more
[ad_1] In early April, the Facebook News tab will start disappearing for users in the US and Australia. Meta has announced that it’s deprecating the dedicated tab found in the bookmarks section of its social network as part of its efforts to “align [its] investments to [its] products and services people value the most.” The … Read more
[ad_1] Meta and LG to “expedite” the former company’s extended reality (XR) business. What does that mean exactly? We don’t know, but Meta’s current VR/XR business is fairly robust, with the LG says the ultimate goal of the partnership is “to combine the strengths of both companies across products, content, services and platforms to drive … Read more
[ad_1] Meta is currently testing a couple of capabilities for Threads, which Instagram head Adam Mosseri describes as some of the “most requested” features for the social network. One of these experimental features is the ability to save drafts. Users will be easily able to save a post they’ve typed as a draft that they … Read more
[ad_1] Despite quickly amassing more than 100 million users, Meta’s Threads hasn’t exactly broken through to the zeitgeist the way its main rival, X/Twitter, did. It’s arguably still awaiting its plane-on-the-Hudson moment. Nevertheless, Meta is doing what it can to bring attention to and keep eyes on the text-based platform, including by displaying popular threads … Read more