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Reuters filed a lawsuit against Facebook owner Meta Platforms, alleging that the social media giant failed to prevent scammers from promoting fake ads featuring celebrities on its platform. The advertisements, which endorsed cryptocurrency or money-making schemes, may have led Facebook users to believe they were promoted by celebrities, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). The lawsuit filed in the Federal Court also alleges Facebook “aided and abetted or was knowingly concerned in false or misleading conduct and representations by the advertisers,” the ACCC said in a statement. “The…

Have you ever received a three-minute audio message from a friend and felt compelled to check your other texts because it was so boring? WhatsApp, on the other hand, will now make things easier for you, particularly when it comes to voice notes. Some Android beta users can now use the global voice player, which has shown in previous beta updates and was even tested on the WhatsApp desktop. The feature was previously given out to iOS beta testers, so they’ve already had a chance to try it out. The…

Twitter made one of its worst product decisions in a long time last week when it announced that the service would default to showing the algorithmically served Home feed, with the reverse-chronological Latest feed accessible in a different tab. The modification made it more difficult to view tweets in chronological order. It was first available on iOS and was set to arrive “soon” on Android and the web. Following widespread criticism, Twitter said on Monday that it would return to its previous state. “We heard you — some of you…

YouTube has added a very useful feature to its videos that will greatly simplify working with quotes and scripts. The platform hosts videos ranging in length from a few seconds to several hours, including podcasts, video essays, and more. And if you needed to find a specific quote or section from these lengthy videos, you’d have to sit through the majority of them until you found what you needed. This problem is now solved by the new transcription feature, which allows users to search for specific parts of a video….

YouTube Vanced, the popular ad-blocking tool, is shutting operations after getting legal threats from Google,. The app’s creator revealed the news with an official tweet. Vanced has been “discounted,” according to the statement, and the download links will be withdrawn soon. The ad-blocking app will continue to work for those who already have it installed on their phones, according to the same tweet. It will, however, cease to function at some point in the near future. The shutdown has yet to be given a definite start date. YouTube Vanced is…

Russia is about to prohibit Instagram, and the country’s president, Adam Mosseri, is furious. According to internal emails to Facebook’s content censors, the move to block Instagram in the country comes a day after Facebook permitted posts calling for the death of Russian President Vladimir Putin in countries such as Russia, Ukraine, and Poland. “On Monday, Instagram will be blocked in Russia. This decision will cut 80 million in Russia off from one another, and from the rest of the world, as 80% of people in Russia follow an Instagram…

WhatsApp is experimenting with new ways to improve the utility of the disappearing messages feature. The messaging app was spotted experimenting with the ability to save messages that were about to vanish. When you send a disappearing message, you don’t want it to stay in the recipient’s inbox for more than a set amount of time. However, if you have the feature enabled, you may accidentally send an important message, which will then vanish because you have it enabled. In such cases, WhatsApp’s soon-to-be-announced “Keep the disappearing message” feature will…

WhatsApp has been spotted testing a new feature that could revolutionise how we forward messages. Whatsapp will soon make it impossible to forward messages to multiple groups. The feature was found being tested by the chat app. If the feature is included in the final version, it will be problematic for many people who forward messages without reading them the majority of the time. This approach would also help to limit the spread of fake news and misinformation. Previously, WhatsApp released an update that allowed users to forward messages to…