Facebook adds new AI features, animated profile photos, and backgrounds for text posts
Facebook’s new AI features let users animate their profile pics, restyle their Stories and Memories, and add backgrounds to text posts.
Facebook can animate your profile pic with AI
Facebook is rolling out new AI features that let you animate your profile picture and restyle Stories and Memories. You’ll also be able to add animated backgrounds to text posts to make them pop in the feed. With the animated profile pictures, you’ll be able to give a still photo motion with some preset types […]
Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp will test premium subscriptions
Meta is gearing up to trial new premium subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp in the coming months that will allow users to access expanded AI capabilities and additional features. TechCrunch reports that the upcoming subscription plans aim to “unlock more productivity and creativity” by providing premium users with “more control over how they share […]
Meta to test premium subscriptions on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp
In the coming months, Meta is going to explore a premium experience on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp that gives users access to special features and more control over how they share and connect, while keeping the core experiences free.
Meta’s Oversight Board takes up permanent bans in landmark case
For the first time, Meta’s Oversight Board is looking for specific policy recommendations around disabled accounts.
How to tweak your online platform algorithms
Love them or hate them, more than half of the world’s population interacts with algorithmic recommendations in some way every day. Algorithmic recommendations play an integral role in how users discover new content across platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. It can be nice to be fed a stream of fresh posts, pictures, and […]
Facebook is testing a link posting limit for professional accounts and pages
Meta said that the test impacts professional accounts and pages on Facebook.
Facebook Messenger’s desktop app is no more
The app remains usable via the web, Facebook app, and through the mobile app for iOS and Android.
Facebook’s redesign is making it more like Instagram
Continuing CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s plan to make Facebook “way more culturally influential than it is today,” Meta is announcing a bunch of new updates to help you “cut through the clutter” and make content in the app. The changes include tweaks to how you see and interact with photos in your feed that could make […]