Running out of things to talk about? Facebook is starting to roll out a feature that will show you when more than one of your friends is discussing the same topic. While Google’s Circles make it easy to define people in the ways that you see them, this move from Facebook is more of an automated curation tool that should be based off of its search algorithm. As spotted byTipdesk, you can see here that Facebook is placing similar topics into a single, informational post that is generated by the site rather than by your friends themselves:...

Updates at the foot of the post. Facebook has begun testing a new real-time feature on a small number of user’s home feeds, displaying at-a-glance a list of what their friends are sharing, who they are adding as friends and displaying checkin notifications. The “Happening Now” sidebar currently sits on the right side of a user’s feed, displaying real-time updates below the dedicated spots for advertising, giving users the chance to see how their connections are interacting with one another without having to navigate away from their main feed....

Facebook blames COVID-19 for reduced action on suicide, self-injury, and child exploitation content Sending content reviewers home forced Facebook to rely more on AI More human moderation needed Facebookdid report some improvements in its AI moderation efforts. The company said the proactive detection rate for hate speech on Facebook had increased from 89% to 95%. This led it to take action on 22.5 million pieces of violating content, up from the 9....

Facebook has come under constant criticism for not doing enough to safeguard people, and particularly children’sprivacyon the vast social network. But what happens when an unsuspecting, grown man falls prey to a scam which takes advantage of Facebook’s anonymity? In February, a Belgian supermarket manager received a friend request from a young woman named Katrien Van Loo. An online relationship was cultivated through the site for five long months, before the manager was lured to an apartment for a blind date, only to find that Katrien didn’t really exist....

Update at the foot of the post. Reports have been coming in that the Algerian government has been partially blocking Facebook & Twitter from the Algerian people since sometime around 2300 GMT yesterday evening amid riots that have spread throughout the country over rising food prices. The riots which broke out last week are still going on strong with young men and women heading to the streets protesting the deteriorating economic situation in the Arab country....