It was just a few days ago that we wrote about anexperimental Facebook productthat resembled Clubhouse, but it turns out Facebook isn’t done with the audio space. The company todayannounceda series of features coming to the social network that will provide users and creators with a variety ofnew tools to make and share audio experiences. The gist of it is that Facebook wants to put a lot more audio in your News Feed....
Leaked internal documents suggest Facebook – which recently renamed itself Meta – isdoing far worse than it claimsat minimizing COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on the Facebook social media platform. Online misinformation about the virus and vaccines is a major concern. In one study, survey respondents who got some or all of their news from Facebook were significantlymore likely to resist the COVID-19 vaccinethan those who got their news from mainstream media sources....
Remember the time when Facebook forced us to download Messenger to chat with friends and make calls? Now, the company wants to bring video and voice calling back to the main app. According to a report fromBloomberg, starting this week, some users will be able to make voice and video calls directly from the app. While currently, this is just a test, the company said this feature will “reduce the need to jump back and forth between Facebook’s main app and its Messenger service....
Facebook, the social network that needs to haveevery product integrated into its all-singing, all-dancing app, is now into podcasting. The company will let page owners upload podcasts on their pages starting June 22. According to a report byThe Verge, Facebook sent an email to page owners notifying them of the feature. If you’re a page owner, you’ll be able to link the RSS feed of your podcast episodes, so they’ll eventually start showing up in the News Feed....
Updates at foot of post. Facebook appears to be suffering some serious downtime troubles right now. Twitter users arereportingthat the service has been unreachable for hours in countriesincludingSweden and Norway. When we try to access the service ourselves in the UK, we’re experiencing a white-out page that never loads. The issue doesn’t appear to be based on location. Fellow users in the UK are reporting a mixture of successful and unsuccessful connections forboththe website and iPhone app....
