Roblox is using M&A to bulk up its social infrastructure, announcing Monday morning that they had acquired the team at Guilded that has been building a chat platform for competitive gamers. The service competes with gaming chat giant Discord, with the team’s founders telling TechCrunch in the past that as Discord’s ambitions had grown beyond […]
Facebook adds four new branches to its 2Africa subsea cable network
Facebook today announced that it would extend the “most comprehensive” subsea cable to serve the African continent and Middle East region to four more branches. Facebook will do this in collaboration with the 2Africa consortium that includes China Mobile International, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, STC, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone, and WIOCC. The new branches are Seychelles, the […]
Google and Facebook’s New Cable To Link Japan and Southeast Asia
Alphabet’s Google and Facebook announced their participation in a new subsea cable system for 2024 set to improve internet connectivity across the Asia-Pacific region. Bloomberg: Dubbed Apricot, the infrastructure project will link Japan, Singapore, Ta…
Russia-Linked Ad Agency Smeared Vaccines Using Hundreds of Fake Instagram Accounts
An anonymous reader shared this report from NBC News:
Facebook said Tuesday that it has removed hundreds of accounts linked to a mysterious advertising agency operating out of Russia that sought to pay social media influencers to smear Covid-19 vaccine…
TikTok is the new Facebook – and it is shaping the future of tech in its image | Chris Stokel-Walker
The swift rise of the Chinese video-sharing app could have ramifications for all of us and how we live, both online and offAgainst the backdrop of a global pandemic that has kept millions of people inside with nothing but their phones for company, the …
英市場・競争庁、Facebook に GIF ライブラリサービスの GIPHY 売却を命じる可能性
headless 曰く、英市場・競争庁 (CMA) は 12 日、Facebook による GIPHY 買収が競争に悪い影響を与える懸念があるとする暫定的な調査結果を発表した( プレスリリース、 The Guardian の記事、 The Register の記事、 The Verge の記事 )。
CMA では Facebook が GIPHY 買収計画を発表した直後の昨年 6 月に調査を開始し、意見募集を行っていた。CMA によれば、ソーシャルメディアでは GIF を含むメッセージが毎日多数投…
Facebook shut down our research into its role in spreading disinformation | Laura Edelson and Damon McCoy
The company’s hostility to academic scrutiny limits our ability to understand how the platform amplifies political falsehoods Last week, Facebook disabled our personal accounts, obstructing the research we lead at New York University to study the sprea…
Facebook Shut Down German Research on Instagram Algorithm, Researchers Say
Researchers at AlgorithmWatch say they were forced to abandon their research project monitoring the Instagram algorithm after legal threats from Facebook. From a report: The Berlin-based project went public with the conflict in a post published Friday …
Facebook is bringing end-to-end encryption to Messenger calls and Instagram DMs
Facebook has extended the option of using end-to-end encryption for Messenger voice calls and video calls. End-to-end encryption (E2EE) — a security feature that prevents third-parties from eavesdropping on calls and chats — has been available for text conversations on Facebook’s flagship messaging service since 2016. Although the company has faced pressure from governments to […]
Facebook is bringing end-to-end encryption to Messenger calls and Instagram DMs
Facebook has extended the option of using end-to-end encryption for Messenger voice calls and video calls. End-to-end encryption (E2EE) — a security feature that prevents third-parties from eavesdropping on calls and chats — has been available for text conversations on Facebook’s flagship messaging service since 2016. Although the company has faced pressure from governments to […]