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With the increasing popularity of social media platforms, security is of paramount importance. While choosing a strong password helps, 2FA improves your security further. Advertisement To add an extra layer of protection, you should enable two-factor authentication on all of your social media accounts. And in this article, we’ll show you how to do just

Facebook is acquiring Giphy, a popular website for making and sharing animated images, or GIFs, and will integrate it with its rapidly growing Instagram photo-sharing app, Facebook said in a blog post on Friday. The cost, which Facebook and Giphy declined to disclose, was placed at around $400 million (roughly Rs. 3,035 crores) by news

Whatever your reasons for using Telegram, it’s a solid messaging app. It makes for a great alternative to WhatsApp and SMS messaging, and if you can persuade your friends to join, Telegram is well worth using. However, if you haven’t moved beyond the basics, you’re missing out on a lot of the best Telegram features.

France will tax big digital businesses this year whether there is progress or not towards an international deal on a levy, its finance minister said on Thursday, adding such a tax had never been more legitimate or more necessary. Nearly 140 countries from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) are negotiating the first

The best way to secure your Facebook account is to enable two-factor authentication (2FA), formerly known as login approvals. Once enabled, you will need a login or verification code every time you want to log into your Facebook account from a new device. This feature will protect your account from hackers, even if your password

Social networks and other online content providers will have to remove paedophile and terrorism-related content from their platforms within the hour or face a fine of up to 4 percent of their global revenue under a French law voted in on Wednesday. For other “manifestly illicit” content, companies such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and

Instagram has introduced more new ways to fight back against online bullies. The headline feature lets you delete Instagram comments in bulk. However, you can also now pin positive comments, and control who can tag and mention you on Instagram. Online bullying is a serious problem, especially on social media. This is especially true on

Launched amid the mounting scare over the coronavirus, a Japanese video chat website designed for hosting virtual drinking parties has soared in popularity while bars and pubs remain shut. Nomikai, or drinking gatherings, are seen by many Japanese as central to building strong relationships among friends and workmates to bond. Tapping into that culture, Tacnom

A Facebook Watch Party is a great way to watch Facebook videos with friends. The Watch Party happens in real time, so that everyone sees the same thing and can comment on it while watching. In this article we show you how to create your own Facebook Watch Party. Allowing you to watch Facebook videos

Throw a global pandemic at the world’s religions, and you get confessions via Skype, virtual seders, and recitations of the Quran over Facebook. The world’s three leading religions have survived famines, plagues, pestilence, and wars. Now, in the 21st century shutdown, New York-area Jewish, Islamic, and Christian clerics are turning to technology to help their

With popular Twitter users boasting hundreds of thousands of followers, it is hard to find out who follows who. Or if a specific user is following another specific user. If you have too much time on your hands you could scour their list of followers. However, if you have a life and want to do

Facebook-backed Libra Association on Wednesday named as its new top executive Stuart Levey, a former US Treasury official who headed team fighting financial crime. Levey, who has most recently been chief legal officer at HSBC Holdings, will lead the group founded by Facebook to manage a global digital payments system. Levey, who turns 57 in

Facebook on Wednesday announced the first 20 members of its independent oversight board that can overrule the company’s own content moderation decisions. Here are some key facts about how the board will work: What will the oversight board review?The board, which some have dubbed Facebook’s “Supreme Court,” will rule on whether some individual pieces of

If you’re going on a virtual date, watching Netflix together is a good option. However, it can be difficult to decide what to watch when Netflix offers so many licensed and original shows. So, to help you out, we’ve put together this list of Netflix shows to watch on a virtual date. These shows are

Zoom Video Communications on Wednesday named former White House National Security Adviser HR McMaster to its board and hired the policy chief of one of the tech world’s big lobby groups to drive governmental relations as it poured more money into improving its image on security. Jonathan Kallmer, who takes over as head of Global

One of the more interesting aspects of Facebook is the ability to create and join groups. There are groups for everything on the social network, including groups for dating, groups to sell unwanted items, groups for hobbies, and more besides. Advertisement In addition to open groups, there are also closed and secret Facebook groups. In

WeChat, a popular messaging app with more than 100 crore users on board worldwide, is monitoring documents and images shared by users registered outside China, to censor these materials from its Chinese users. The app, backed by Internet giant Tencent, silently subjects its international users to surveillance, analysing files shared by them using a remote

The COVID-19 pandemic has sent the world scrambling for ways to stay in contact. And video chat apps are one of the easiest ways you can keep in touch with friends and family. Two video chat apps are making more headlines than most: Zoom and Houseparty. Both video chat apps promise to keep things simple,

Here is a list of the members of the Facebook “supreme court” announced Wednesday who will consider difficult decisions on what content to allow or remove from the world’s largest social media platform. According to Facebook, the Oversight Board members have lived in more than 27 countries, and speak at least 29 languages among them.

Facebook invites can get annoying quickly. While you probably don’t mind someone inviting you to like a page every once in a while, getting spammed with game or page invites constantly is a huge hassle. So, in this article, we’ll show you how to turn off Facebook invites. While it’s not possible to flip a

Facebook, in an attempt to promote its Free Basics programme, has introduced a new app called Discover. This app allows users to browse any website using a daily balance of free data that is given by mobile operators. Discover is currently in trial phase and is being tested in Peru, which is among the more

Tumblr is removing all reblogs promoting hate speech. With a particular focus on hate speech from white supremacists. Furthermore, the social media platform has committed to continue deleting reblogs found to be in violation of its community guidelines. Tumblr Was Late Cracking Down on Hate Speech In August 2018, Tumblr updated its community guidelines Tumblr

Instagram on Tuesday said it has removed the objectionable content featuring minor girls on its platform, amid the outrage over the content. In a statement, the photo-sharing platform also asserted that it takes such issues very seriously and accords top priority to ensure that its users can express themselves in a “safe and respectful way”.

When trying to stay in touch with friends, you aren’t limited to video chats. You can actually spend time in the same room as your friends without seeing them in real life. Do you want to hang out with your friends in a virtual space? Then convince them to invest in a VR headset, and

Reddit is rolling out a new feature that lets users engage in private group chats with each other. Reddit is a discussion forum made up of many different communities called subreddits. The new feature, named “Start Chatting”, randomly sorts users from a subreddit into a private group chat, where they can, well, start chatting! Reddit

Since June 2019, Skype has let you share your screen on mobile. This was a popular feature on desktop, which led Microsoft to add screen sharing to the Skype mobile app for Android and iOS as well. And in this article we’ll show you how to do it. Microsoft has allowed you to share your

TikTok has been making continued efforts in the fight against coronavirus. It has donated medical equipment as well as money to help medical workers and curb the spread of the virus. Now, the video-sharing social networking service has introduced an enhanced in-app reporting feature to prevent the spread of misinformation in these trying times. TikTok

For the uninitiated, Zoom is a video and audio conferencing tool. Its primary focus is on enterprise meetings, but it also works as a platform for catching up with family and friends. Advertisement While everyone knows how to simply sit and chat on Zoom, there are lots of other fun things to do with Zoom.

Reddit has “fully rolled back” the Start Chatting feature from subreddits that allowed users to engage in private group chats with each other. The announcement was made almost 24 hours after launching the feature. Reddit has indicated that the feature came with a major bug that made the Start Chatting button appear on subreddits where

Whether you have multiple Facebook accounts or share a computer with friends and family, you’ll need to know how to switch Facebook accounts. Thankfully, the social network makes it easy to quickly switch between profiles using the same browser. How to Switch Between Facebook Accounts (Classic Facebook) While logged into Facebook, you should see an