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Meta is working on a way for you to view your messages from Messenger within the Facebook mobile app, according to a blog post from Facebook boss Tom Alison. Facebook reports that it has 2 billion active users who connect on its platform daily, and its team is working to enhance how people have online conversations.…

Photo: Nuchylee (Shutterstock)When you post on Instagram, you don’t expect to find it on other sites or platforms. After all, you posted it to Instagram, not Facebook. But Instagram posts are winding up on Facebook, to the surprise of many inactive Facebook users. So what’s going on?Meta may have tricked you into sharing your Instagram…

Screenshot: Jake PetersonWhen you unlock your iPhone or Android, you want quick access to essential functions, like your phone or messages apps, while limiting the number of distractions that can pull you in. Take some time, then, to simplify your home screen, keeping only the apps you think you’d need with any given phone pickup.If…

Drama is mounting, reader. I'm Diamond Naga Siu, and I'm not just talking about the Selena/Hailey 'mean girls' saga — I'm fascinated by the Salesforce spectacle. CEO Marc Benioff recently oversaw the departure of two leading candidates to inherit the Salesforce throne. And the succession crisis has caught the eye of antsy activist shareholders.Within months, multiple…

Enlarge / Facebook co-founder, Chairman, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Tomorrow is the day that Meta expected would finally end its Cambridge Analytica woes. That’s when a US district court in California is scheduled to preliminarily approve a $725 million settlement agreement that Meta believed would release the company of all related claims. However, just days…

Enlarge / The Meta Quest Pro at a Best Buy demo station in October 2022. The next Meta Quest headset, planned for launch this year, will be thinner, twice as powerful, and slightly more expensive than the Quest 2. That's according to a leaked internal hardware roadmap presentation obtained by The Verge that also includes…

Happy March, reader. I'm Diamond Naga Siu, and I need to up my phone security. I lazily use the pattern unlock feature on my Android phone, but my colleague Sam Tabahriti's story scared me. He chatted with a woman who was locked out of her Apple account minutes after her iPhone was stolen. $10,000 was…

Over the past few years, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) saw worrying trends indicating that teen sextortion is on the rise online and, in extreme cases, leads to suicides. Between 2019 and 2021, the number of sextortion cases reported on NCMEC’s online tipline more than doubled. At the start of 2022,…

After a jury unanimously decided last September that Meta owed $175 million to walkie-talkie app-maker Voxer for patent infringement, Meta tried to avoid paying up by requesting a judge either reject the jury's verdict or give Meta a new trial. This week, a federal judge denied Meta’s request, making it likely that Meta will have…

Facebook users get frustrated when the social network blocks them from posting on the platform, especially when they don't understand what rules they violated. Now Facebook's parent company, Meta, says it plans to do a better job of explaining to Facebook users why it removed their post before the company resorts to longer account restrictions."The vast…