| 16 hours ago Facebook said it released 170 new open-source projects in 2019, bringing its total portfolio to 579 active repositories. Open-source developer advocate Dmitry Vinnik said in a blog post that the social network’s internal engineers contributed more than 82,000 commits in 2019, while some 2,500 external contributors committed over 32,000 changes. He ..
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| 17 hours ago Facebook director of product management for business integrity Rob Leathern turned to a different social network to share further details on a change introduced last week regarding custom audiences from lists. Leathern shared a series of tweets about the change, which will begin rolling out later this month. A promised thread for adtech ..
| 3 hours ago Facebook debuted a revamped Amber Alert format Monday to mark Amber Alert Awareness Day and the fifth anniversary of the day the initiative to help locate missing children rolled out on the social network. Since the feature debuted in January 2015, over 700 Amber Alerts have been issued via Facebook, and they ..
| 10 hours ago The trend of college admissions officers visiting the social media profiles of applicants is back on the upswing, according to the latest survey from Kaplan Test Prep. The educational and career-services provider polled nearly 300 college admissions officers and found that 36% of them turn to applicants’ profiles on social platforms ..
| 19 hours ago Reddit released a policy update on impersonation and deepfakes, saying that while neither currently represents a huge issue on its platform, it wants to nip potential problems in the bud. The company said in a Reddit Security post that impersonation is one of the rarest report classes it receives, so it does ..
| 15 hours ago Facebook quietly added a new way for page administrators to police each other. The social network added a Page Management History option to the left column of its page settings. Page Management History displays actions taken by page admins including added and removed admins, changes to rolls, changes to page settings and ..
| 15 hours ago Popular video creation application TikTok released its updated terms of service earlier this week, with significantly more meat than the previous version. The prohibition on harmful or dangerous organizations or content was expanded, and in addition to terrorists and terrorist organizations, it covers hate groups, violent extremist organizations and groups engaged ..
| 13 hours ago Twitter revealed the next steps in its ongoing effort to give people on its platform more control over their conversations in a session at CES 2020 Wednesday. The social network said it will begin testing a new conversation participants menu on its compose screen that will give the tweet creator four options ..
| 4 hours ago Facebook said at CES 2020 Tuesday that 4 million advertisers are now using Stories ads across Instagram, Facebook and Messenger. The company’s Stories advertiser total topped 3 million last May. The social network also highlighted recent Stories campaigns by two brands. Direct-to-consumer brand Grove Collaborative—which makes eco-friendly household products in areas including ..
| 8 hours ago Facebook vice president of consumer hardware Andrew Bosworth found himself in the familiar position of defending something he wrote for internal consumption at the company that ended up being publicly leaked. Kevin Roose, Sheera Frenkel and Mike Isaac of The New York Times obtained a copy of a memo Bosworth shared on ..
