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A New Facebook Setting Tells Meta Not to Use Your Data for AI
Meta, the maker of Facebook and Instagram, introduced a new privacy setting Thursday that lets you ask, pretty please, for the company not to use your data to train its AI models. Buried in the nether regions of Facebook’s Help Center—a part of the website most people probably never visit—you’ll find an entry called Generative…
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How to Export All Your Photos and Videos Out of Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and Messenger
You’ve probably got a ton of photos and videos in your social media and messaging apps at this point—pictures of sunsets posted to Instagram, pictures of the kids posted to family WhatsApp groups, and so on—but you might not necessarily have those pictures and videos saved anywhere else. That can be a problem, should something…
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The Threads Web App Is Now Live
After rumours of an incoming web version of Meta’s struggling Twitter-clone Threads, the web app for the social media platform is now live. Beginning this morning at 9 a.m. Eastern, Threads users will be able to post, view their feed, and interact with Threads all from the comfort of their desktop. The release comes after…
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Threads Is Finally Getting a Web Browser
As the cold war between Elon Musk’s Twitter (recently rebranded as X) and Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads rages on, the latter is preparing to launch a new offensive. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri announced that Threads was finally getting a bona fide browser version. Mosseri announced the new version of Threads in an update on his…