A new feature available on Facebook profiles now lets profile owners tag non-friends in the comments threads of their public posts. This comes in response to therecently revealed Subscribe button, a feature meant to eliminate the desire for any other social network. For those familiar with the friend-tagging text feature in comments and posts, it was previously impossible to tag users who you hadn’t friended back on the service, a minor but notable annoyance....

Inside Facebook reported todaythat Facebook has revealed about how it will makeTimelineavailable to public, as well as how developers can expect theOpen Graph Appprocess to go. The blog spoke to Facebook Product Manager Carl Sjogreen, and he had this to say: We’ve tried to be mindful about the lessons we’ve learned As we’ve reported, Facebook’s Timeline feature isdue in the “coming weeks”, and now we know what that roll-out will be like for users....

Facebook became the second most popular website in the UK last month, overtaking Microsoft websites for the first time as large numbers of older users took to the social network, a new report from UKOM/Nielsen suggests. Facebook saw 26.8 million Britons visit its website in May, a new record for the social network, increasing 7% year on year. Microsoft’s MSN, WindowsLive and Bing sites saw 26.2 million visitors but Google still dominated in the UK with 33....

Facebook’s Oversight Board — something akin to a supreme court for the company — will decide whether to reverse the controversial Trump ban on Wednesday at 9:00 AM ET. The Trump ban went into effect on January 7, a day after the Capitol riot. Zuckerberg said Trump wasbanned “indefinitely”from Facebook and Instagram, but the matter was thensubmittedto the company’s Oversight Board on January 21. The Oversight Board was originally slated to make a decision within 90 days, but the ruling was delayed after receiving over9,000 commentson the case, which it needed time to review....

Facebook’s Oversight Board has upheld the platform’s decision to ban Donald Trump’s accounts, but saysthe company broke its own rules by imposing an indefinite suspension. Trump’sFacebook and Instagram accounts weresuspended indefinitelyin the wake of the US Capitol riots over fears that he would use the platforms to encourage further violence. The social network had already blocked Trump from posting for 24 hours, but then extended the ban until at least Joe Biden replaced him as president on January 20....