Facebook finally reveals the reason behind Monday’s six-hour global outage
Oct 5, 2021
Dunja Đuđić
As I believe all of you have noticed, Facebook was down for quite a lot of time yesterday. The outage was global, and Facebook took…
Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are down globally
Oct 4, 2021
Dunja Đuđić
Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp have been hit by a global outage. The DIYP team noticed the issue earlier today, and Facebook has confirmed that it’s…
Instagram Reels are now available on Facebook too
Sep 30, 2021
Dunja Đuđić
It’s not strange for Instagram to get new features, and then we see them on Facebook as well. After Stories, now it’s Reels’ turn. From…
Facebook’s camera glasses raise privacy concerns as you may not know when you’re being filmed
Sep 29, 2021
Dunja Đuđić
Earlier this month, Facebook debuted its first pair of “smart glasses” make in partnership with Ray-Ban. Of course, they have already raised privacy concerns because…
Facebook teams up with Ray-Ban to make Snapchat wanna-be camera glasses
Sep 10, 2021
Dunja Đuđić
Facebook has teamed up with Ray-Ban to bring you Ray-Ban Stories, its first pair of “smart glasses.” They combine the recognizable Ray-Ban frames, Facebook technology,…
Facebook apologizes after its AI mislabels a video of Black men as “primates”
Sep 6, 2021
Dunja Đuđić
Facebook recently found itself in the middle of yet another scandal. This time, it’s not about the data leak, but about a racist message users…
Facebook will pay influencers $1 billion to encourage them to use its products
Jul 15, 2021
Dunja Đuđić
Competition is fierce in the social media world, both between major platforms and people who use them. As an attempt to fight competition, Facebook plans…
Facebook only needs one photo with the one word to copy your handwriting
Jun 14, 2021
Dunja Đuđić
Facebook has introduced a new research project that’s impressive and scary at the same time. TextStyleBrush uses AI to recreate your handwriting based on a…
You can now hide like counts on both Instagram and Facebook
May 26, 2021
Dunja Đuđić
Last month, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri confirmed that hiding like counts was soon to become optional. Now the feature is officially being rolled out for everyone,…
Advertising experiment shows Instagram’s personal data collection is 100% for their benefit, not yours
May 12, 2021
John Aldred
After Instagram (and Facebook) recently put out notifications in the app stating that they wanted access to your data to “Help keep Instagram free of…