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Instagram’s group video chat is now live, and it’s not terrible

Jun27
by on June 27, 2018 at 6:05 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web


As promised at Facebook’s F8 conference last month, Instagram’s received an update with a group video calling feature. It lets you chat with up to three more pals at the same time; you can minimize the video screens to a thumbnail if you’d like to continue browsing your messages and feed. In my brief test, I found it to work just fine – albeit with a few seconds’ delay in initially connecting and starting up video streams. You can only call people you’re connected to, i.e. you follow them and they follow you back. That keeps things a bit more…

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Facebook relaxes its ban on some cryptocurrency advertisements

Jun27
by on June 27, 2018 at 12:39 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Hard Fork


Facebook today softened its stats on cryptocurrency ads by allowing a select few pre-approved advertisers to run advertisements on the network. Facebook, in January, banned all ads that promoted financial products and services. Included in the ban were products frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices, such as initial coin offerings (ICOs) and various incentive schemes by more established digital currencies. At the time, Facebook’s product management director, Rob Leathern had this to say: We will listen to feedback, look at how well this policy works and continue to study this technology so that, if necessary, we can revise…

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Trump’s anti-Muslim tweets may have caused an increase in hate crimes, study finds

Jun26
by on June 26, 2018 at 10:46 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media


A recently released research paper shows the age-old adage about saying something nice is true, even in the modern era, and especially with an unconventional president. University of Warwick researchers Karsten Müller and Carlo Schwarz found evidence that suggests Donald Trump’s tweets about Islam have led to an increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes over the past few years. Using the FBI’s hate crime database, the pair first took a wide view of any recorded hate crime between 1990 and 2016, before limiting the scope of the search to hate crimes against Muslims after Trump took office. The number of these…

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