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Meta Removes 63k Instagram Accounts Linked to Sextortion Scams
Meta’s announced a major action against a known sextortion group operating out of Nigeria, which has led to the removal of around 70,000 cumulative profiles, Pages and groups from Facebook and IG, as well as improved measures to keep them from returning. Meta says that these accounts were associated with a group called “Yahoo Boys”, a known scam collective. Yahoo…
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TikTok Adds Custom Thumbnail Option for Clips
Big news for TikTok creators, with TikTok adding the capacity to upload custom thumbnail images for your clips. As you can see in this example, posted by social media expert Matt Navarra, now, within the upload flow in the app, you can either choose a specific frame from the video to be your thumbnail image, or you can tap on…
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Instagram Shares Tips on How to Maximize Your IG Live Streams
Instagram has published a new guide to live streaming in the app, which could be another consideration for your brand outreach, and raising awareness among your IG audience. Instagram’s live guide covers all the basics of how to go live, including how to schedule a broadcast, and how to incorporate co-hosts to facilitate live chat and engagement. Instagram also provides…
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Can Threads Avoid Political News During the US Election?
Can Meta maintain its planned political distance in the upcoming election campaign? Apparently, this is a question that even those within the company are now debating, following a weekend in which political news dominated the headlines. In the wake of President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from his re-election campaign, many pointed to the fact that Biden first posted his…
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X Rolls Out New Ways to Use its Grok AI Chatbot
X has rolled out some new ways to use its Grok AI chatbot, with profile analysis now available to paying X Premium subscribers, as well as the capacity to ask Grok about any term or phrase by highlighting it in the app. X first previewed its profile analysis option earlier this month, which adds a new “More about this account”…
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Meta Removes 63k Instagram Accounts Linked to Sextortion Scam
Meta’s announced a major action against a known sextortion group operating out of Nigeria, which has led to the removal of around 70,000 cumulative profiles, Pages and groups from Facebook and IG, as well as improved measures to keep them from returning. Meta says that these accounts were associated with a group called “Yahoo Boys”, a known scam collective. Yahoo…
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Threads is Developing an Easier Way to Access Likes and Saved Posts
Okay, this one may be something, or it could be nothing, at least not what some expect. Back in May, app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi uncovered a back-end code element on Threads which refers to a section called “Your Feeds”. As you can see in this example, “Your Feeds” would enable users to easily access different elements of the app, including…
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Meta Expands AI Chatbot to More Regions, Adds New Functionality
Despite regulatory challenges in Europe, Meta is moving forward with the next stage of its AI development plan, with the company today announcing an expansion of its Meta AI chatbot to seven more languages, as well as new creative functions in-stream, and the capacity to choose which Meta AI model you use for different functions. Which, really, provides a path…
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Meta Open Sources Its Llama AI Models To Facilitate Broader Development
As it continues to expand its AI push in its apps, Meta’s also taking steps to become a leader in the broader AI space, by announcing that it’s open-sourcing its latest Llama AI models, in order to facilitate expanded development and collaboration. Meta will release its Llama 3.1 40B and Llama 3.1 70B models, which will enable developers to build…
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YouTube Adds Option To Save Music From Shorts
YouTube will now enable creators to save music from the Shorts feed, so that you can reuse Shorts audio in different applications. As you can see in this example sequence, now, you’ll be able to “Save Music” direct from the Shorts UI, which will then add that audio to your chosen sounds folder. Up till now, creators have had to…
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