The Hacker-News-style web site Inbound.org is being shut down, despite what appears to be a record amount of traffic to the web site. The owners of Inbound.org are shutting down the web site and launching a new web site called Growth Hub, which will reside at Growth.org. [Read more…]
Facebook allows really long posts that completely fill up a Facebook user’s feed, virtually completely taking over all posts in someone’s feed. Someone who I’m Facebook friends with shared a Facebook post by someone else, and that post completely took up the Facebook feed (timeline), making me literally scroll for almost a minute until I saw another post. Here’s an example of that post: [Read more…]
Facebook is responding to fake news posts, right in your Facebook feed, by inserting fact checker posts right after posts from your friends that they believe is fake news. If one of your Facebook friends shares an article that Facebook thinks is fake news, then right after that post they will post a fact-checker post. Here is an example of this: [Read more…]
ManyChat is a popular service that allows you to create Facebook Messenger bots.
In light of the data security issues that Facebook has had lately, Facebook is pausing the addition of all new Facebook Messenger bots. If you currently are running a Facebook Messenger bot, then you most likely won’t have any interruption of service, and your bot will continue to work as usual. [Read more…]
The United States Federal Trade Commission has issued a statement about recent privacy concerns of Facebook users. Tom Pahl, Acting Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, issued a statement about Facebook’s privacy practices. [Read more…]
Have you liked a Facebook page or post that has been built by a Russian agency spreading fake news? Or, have you liked or followed a Facebook Page or Instagram account created by the Internet Research Agency? The Internet Research Agency has been identified by Facebook as an organization that apparently was paid to spread fake news Facebook and Instagram–in an attempt to influence the United States Presidential Election. [Read more…]