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5 votes
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Facebook - An update on our use of face recognition
15 votes -
CBC is keeping Facebook comments closed on news posts
21 votes -
John Carmack Facebook Connect 2021 Keynote
14 votes -
Facebook changes name to Meta: Mark Zuckerberg announces company rebrand as it moves to the metaverse
30 votes -
John Carmack: An unlocked OS for Oculus Go will be provided
@John Carmack: Something I have been pushing on for years is going to come to pass soon: We are going to make available an unlocked OS build for the Oculus Go headset that can be side loaded to get full root access.
15 votes -
Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
13 votes -
Facebook banned someone for developing a Chrome extension designed to reduce its addictiveness
27 votes -
Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp are all down
47 votes -
More details about Facebook's October 4th outage
10 votes -
Telegram founder says over seventy million new users joined during Facebook outage
15 votes -
Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet
11 votes -
Facebook thrives on criticism of “disinformation”
11 votes -
Microsoft, Google, Facebook and other tech firms are pressing lawmakers to stop prosecutors from secretly snooping on private accounts
3 votes -
Facebook paid FTC $4.9B more than required to shield Mark Zuckerberg, lawsuit alleges
11 votes -
Hands-on with Facebook and Ray-Ban’s first pair of smart glasses
9 votes -
Regulators and reality: The FTC's case against Facebook
5 votes -
US FTC: Facebook was bad at business, so it “illegally bought or buried” competition
14 votes -
Facebook's new "Widely Viewed Content" report doesn't provide meaningful transparency, and seems to be full of errors and spam
5 votes -
Inside Facebook’s metaverse for work
4 votes -
Sophie Zhang risked everything to expose how Facebook enables global political manipulation. Now she’s telling her story.
14 votes -
Zoom to pay $85M for lying about encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google
28 votes -
Facebook cracks down on discussing ‘hoes’ in gardening group
12 votes -
Big Tech is trying to disarm the US FTC by going after its biggest weapon: Lina Khan
8 votes -
How to download photos from Facebook?
So my spouse is getting fed up with Facebook and would like to download all of her photos and ideally any photos others have taken that she’s tagged in. She’d like to do a single bulk download,...
So my spouse is getting fed up with Facebook and would like to download all of her photos and ideally any photos others have taken that she’s tagged in. She’d like to do a single bulk download, but is having trouble navigating Facebook’s intentionally confusing settings to do this. I don’t have an account and have never used Facebook beyond reading the occasional post a friend has sent me, so I don’t really know how to help in this case.
This guide claims to be from 2021. Following the steps in section 3 we see something that looks very similar but not exactly the same under her settings. Where they have a list containing items like “Posts”, “Photos and videos”, “Comments”, etc. We see a different list and it doesn’t have any option for “Photos and Videos.” There is one section titled, “Short videos”, but nothing about photos at all. Has Facebook changed this recently, or does she have some weird setting that’s causing it not to show up? Or is the guide just wrong? (Or maybe they’re A/B testing something and that’s why she isn’t seeing it?)
Any help appreciated. Thanks!
EDIT: I think we figured it out. It looks like Posts and Photos have been combined into just "Posts" with no mention of photos whatsoever. When you get the resulting .zip file, it contains the photos, though. It's typically shitty of Facebook.
12 votes -
Trump files lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter and Google
14 votes -
Judge tears Florida’s social media law to shreds for violating First Amendment
16 votes -
The internet feeds on its own dying dreams
4 votes -
US Democrats circulate draft antitrust bills that could reshape Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google
15 votes -
China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media
13 votes -
96% of US users opt out of app tracking in iOS 14.5
35 votes -
The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
26 votes -
Florida bill would fine social media platforms for banning politicians— with exemption for Disney
14 votes -
How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower's account
11 votes -
Life’s a Bitche: Facebook says sorry for shutting down town’s page
6 votes -
533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
29 votes -
Facebook makes it easier for users to see News Feed stories in chronological order
8 votes -
Facebook built the perfect platform for Covid vaccine conspiracies
9 votes -
Tim Berners-Lee: We need social networks where bad things happen less
10 votes -
How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation
10 votes -
Data Transfer Project
6 votes -
Facebook is a global mafia
10 votes -
Facebook to lift Australia news ban after government agrees to amendments to proposed legislation requiring them to pay publishers
6 votes -
Facebook will ban Australian users from sharing or viewing news
18 votes -
Facebook's Oversight Board announces its first decisions, overturning Facebook's decision in four out of five cases
8 votes -
Are there any viable alternatives for Facebook?
A lot of people are currently switching over from WhatsApp to Signal right now, and the two are comparable enough that Signal can pretty much act as a drop-in replacement for WhatsApp. They have...
A lot of people are currently switching over from WhatsApp to Signal right now, and the two are comparable enough that Signal can pretty much act as a drop-in replacement for WhatsApp. They have very comparable features, and Signal is easy enough to use that it's adoptable by non-techy people.
Does something similar exist for Facebook? I'm fully aware of the network effects that keep people on Facebook, but let's pretend a lot of people wanted to leave that platform and migrate elsewhere. Is there anything that has a similar featureset and that is usable by the general population?
22 votes -
Nearly 1.6 million Illinois Facebook users to get about $350 each in privacy settlement
7 votes -
WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using the app
28 votes -
Facebook bans Trump "indefinitely" with Mark Zuckerberg explaining that "the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service... are simply too great"
36 votes -
Tim Cook responds to Facebook on Twitter: "[..] Facebook can continue to track users across apps and websites as before, [..] we just require that they ask for your permission first."
@Tim Cook: We believe users should have the choice over the data that is being collected about them and how it's used. Facebook can continue to track users across apps and websites as before, App Tracking Transparency in iOS 14 will just require that they ask for your permission first. pic.twitter.com/UnnAONZ61I
13 votes