Tag: facebook

• Why Messenger is Facebook’s key to the future of communication

  May 16, 2021

  The reason why messaging apps are so popular and continue to grow, and more and more people are spending more and more time on them, is just because communicating with… more ›

• Apple robbed the mob’s bank

  May 16, 2021

  Last week, Apple introduced a new ad unit to the App Store: a paid placement on its Search page. https://mobiledevmemo.com/apple-robbed-the-mobs-bank/ more ›

• Five Years of VR: An Oral History from Oculus Rift to Quest 2

  April 2, 2021

  Oculus Rift launched in March 2016. Depending on who you ask, it’s “already” been five years or it’s “only” been five years since we shipped that first consumer VR headset.… more ›

• PressClub with Mark Zuckerberg, Daniel Ek, and Tobi Lütke – transcript & recording

  March 21, 2021

  Today’s PressClub featured Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, and Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke. In our biggest show yet, we dug into why creators are crucial to the… more ›

• Making Sense of the Facebook Menace

  January 2, 2021

  Every day, a Twitter account run by Kevin Roose, a technology reporter for The New York Times, posts a list of the top 10 sources of the highest-performing links on… more ›

• French and Russian Influence Operations Go Head to Head Targeting Audiences in Africa

  December 22, 2020

  On December 15, Facebook announced that it had taken down three separate networks that it had discovered for “coordinated inauthentic behavior” that targeted communities across Africa. One, centered on the Central African… more ›

• Big Tech’s censorship shame in Viet Nam

  December 18, 2020

  Imagine if you spent years and years growing your Facebook account, posting and writing about your passions for democracy, but then in one easy act, Facebook just erases all the… more ›

• Why WhatsApp Matters

  December 1, 2020

  WhatsApp is being remodeled in front of our eyes. Watch what happens because even if you don’t use the messaging app, the changes could reshape the direction of the internet.… more ›

• Toomas Hendrik Ilves: West is losing Informational war against Russia

  November 15, 2020

  Toomas Hendrik Ilves is the former president and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia, former Radio Free Europe journalist, a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University,… more ›

• How Facebook Entrenches Itself

  October 3, 2020

  For example, Facebook is starting to let people use Instagram to send a photo to someone using Messenger, and vice versa. In the future, you might be able to text… more ›