Facebook reported revenue that beat Wall Street estimates as advertisers stuck with the social media company through a series of privacy scandals.
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Google’s social network, Google+, will start to disappear from next week, as the company prepares for the site’s eventual closure in April.
Facebook has been criticised for not acting quickly enough in the fight against fake news and lacking transparency on its progress.
The former UK deputy prime minister, hired by Facebook last year to lead the company’s lobbying efforts, used his first speech since taking the job to explain how it wants to repair its reputation and be accountable for its impact on society.
There will be grumbling about Facebook unifying its apps. But it was an obvious decision by a company that now has to try much harder to continue to lure more people and advertisers to its digital empire.
Facebook is planning to integrate parts of WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger, as part of a huge technical operation across the social network’s collection of messaging apps.
Facebook is giving up on its standalone Moments photo organiser app more than three years after launching it.
Researchers claim it is possible to profile people based on the social media activity of their friends, even if the person does not use the platform.
WhatsApp is to limit the number of times users can forward any single message to five in an attempt to stop false information spreading on the platform.
A bug on Twitter exposed the tweets of some Android users who chose to keep their accounts private for more than four years, the social network has revealed.