Bangladesh
The photo of tourists sleeping on Cox’s Bazar beach was generated by AI, and four detectors agree
An image of stranded holidaymakers bedding down on the sand spread through Facebook and TikTok this week. The hands give it away, the…
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Two hours a day, nothing after midnight: Meta’s teen limits — and why the age check decides whether any of it works
The time caps will get the headlines. The feed change matters more, and the age-verification piece matters most, because a limit only…
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No manual of psychiatry recognises social media addiction. That argument is now being had in a courtroom, which changes what is at stake
The DSM-5 and ICD-11 do not list it. Stanford’s Anna Lembke has testified that platform features are designed to be compulsive. Both of…
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The PMO page passed 562,000 followers in five days — what a follower count actually measures, and the dependency nobody costs
Fast growth, a regional scoreboard, and a real benefit: one verified place to check whether something is genuine. Also a channel the…
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Meta starts Community Notes on 18 March, replacing fact-checkers with users — what changes, what doesn’t, and why Bangla is not on the list
Facebook, Instagram and Threads begin testing X-style Community Notes in the US on 18 March, the first concrete step in Meta’s decision to…
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Nobody was made to follow the new president. The accounts changed hands, and the followers came with the account
Meta says no one was auto-followed. @POTUS and @VicePresident are institutional accounts that transfer at each inauguration, carrying their…
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Meta fired about two dozen Los Angeles staff for spending their $25 meal credits on toothpaste and wine glasses
Engineers on $400,000 salaries were among those dismissed after Meta found its Grubhub and Uber Eats meal allowance — $20 for breakfast…
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Messenger turns on end-to-end encryption for everyone — a billion users, four years late, and the first time Meta cannot read what Bangladesh’s biggest chat app says
Since 2016 Messenger’s encryption has been an opt-in “secret conversation” almost nobody used. Meta is now making it the default for all…
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Your Facebook account is the most valuable thing you own online. Here is the ten-minute checklist that stops most of the ways it gets stolen
Identity theft, blackmail with private photos, phishing links dressed as prizes, and creative work reposted as someone else’s — the four…
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Facebook gives creators a comment manager: search comments by name and date, sort praise from abuse, and hide the worst before anyone sees it
In the Professional Dashboard, a new Comment Manager lets pages and professional-mode profiles filter comments by sentiment, find a…
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Cyberbullied in Bangladesh? What to do in the first hour, and exactly where to go
Two real cases, one resolved in 24 hours through 999 and one in three days through the cyber crime unit, plus the numbers, pages and…
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How does Facebook know what you are thinking? It is not the microphone
You thought about buying an air conditioner, told no one, and your feed filled with AC ads. Here is the actual mechanism, why the "it…