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September 3, 2024

Bitdefender Uncovers AI Scams Targeting Facebook Users

Cybersecurity company ‘Bitdefender’ has exposed a series of AI scams aimed at deceiving Facebook users by presenting counterfeit artificial intelligence (AI) features and services. In recent times, scammers have been taking over Facebook Pages and transforming them to resemble genuine AI services, such as OpenAI’s Sora for video creation and DALL-E for image creation. These

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July 20, 2024

Mastering Facebook Privacy: Essential Tips to Protect Your Data

Security audits, though tedious, are essential for protecting your online data. Numerous data breaches, such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal, highlight the importance of ensuring that social networks and apps aren’t collecting more information than necessary. Big tech companies profit from your data by either selling it or using it to target advertisements. Facebook, for

September 22, 2023

Facebook Embraces Multiple Profiles: Balancing Privacy and Personalization

Do you recall the time when Facebook made a significant fuss about using your real name? It seems like ages ago when usernames reigned supreme, and real identities were concealed for privacy reasons. However, Facebook is now revising this approach, albeit not entirely, as it introduces support for multiple profiles. To clarify, Facebook insists that

April 6, 2023

Facebook Messenger’s New Feature: Play Games While You Video Call

For a long time, Facebook Messenger has some games that can be played with your contacts. However, the latter were never very popular with users, despite their undeniable community potential. Meta intends to fix this issue with a new major update. In a post on its blog, the company actually announced that it will now

January 30, 2023

Facebook App Drains Your Phone’s Battery: The Hidden Truth

We all know that social media applications, together with Google services, are the main culprits for excessive smartphone battery consumption. They are largely responsible for much of the energy consumption of our equipment. Recent studies, and others not so recent, have shown that Facebook and Facebook Messenger are often among the most consumed applications on

January 25, 2023

Customizable encrypted chats come to Facebook Messenger

Meta, the company that owns Facebook, is working to make end-to-end encryption available on Facebook Messenger, which is Facebook’s instant messaging platform. This happens after having done the same in WhatsApp (for all chats) and Instagram (can be activated manually for individual chats). Added to this feature is also the possibility of customizing encrypted chats,

June 13, 2022

Meta developing New ‘Basic Ads’ Advertising for Facebook

Business Insider revealed on June 2 that Meta was working on a new advertising service for its social network Facebook. This new tool, referred to internally as Basic Ads, allows advertisers to promote their products without using users’ personally identifiable information. Rethinking Advertising As questions grow about the private information collected by applications, Facebook is

April 30, 2022

Why Facebook is unable to manage User’s Personal Data

Engineers in charge of the advertising system indicate in a document that they have no idea where the user data is, once it has been collected by the social network. It’s a new leaked document that won’t improve Facebook’s bad reputation when it comes to the security of its users’ personal data. A system too

February 23, 2022

Facebook Reels Launches Worldwide

Facebook Reels Launches Worldwide Facebook Reels already existed in some countries but now it reaches the whole world. It Offers creators new ways to monetize and popularize their content Starting today, Facebook Reels are now available for iOS and Android apps globally with more editing tools and new ways to help content creators monetize their

February 3, 2022

 For the First Time in 17 years Facebook Total User Base Dropped

According to the Quarterly Report Released by Meta, Facebook lost half a million (about 5 million) Global Daily Users in the Fourth Quarter of 2021 on a Quarterly Basis. Facebook was started in 2004. This is the first time since 2004 that there has been a decline in its Daily Active Users (DAU). The company’s

January 14, 2022

Facebook Antitrust Case: FTC can drag Meta to Court

Facebook may have become meta now, but its problem is not taking its name to end. Meta has long been accused of antitrust. There are allegations against him that he is not giving other small companies a chance to survive. She does not allow her competition to grow. If Facebook sees that someone is competing