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The latest Facebook news and guides, all in one place. Navigating one of the largest social media networks and keeping up with everything Mark Zuckerberg up to is no easy task, but Digital Trends offers in-depth coverage to help keep you informed. Here’s everything you need to know about Facebook.

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Facebook debuts Seller app for Marketplace and tests a TikTok-style video feed

Facebook is rolling out a standalone Seller app for Marketplace power users and testing a video-first home screen that mirrors TikTok's format.
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Facebook is getting a free verified badge to help spot real people

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Instagram is finally going after Ray-Ban Meta-wearing creeps

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Suck at bedtime stories? Meta has an AI to tuck kids in

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Meta AI will bring parents into the loop when teens mention self-harm

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Apple doesn’t want to share this AirPods feature with Meta, but the EU may force its hand

Cuddle-Fish is an innovative soft-bodied, lighter-than-air robot created by researcher Mingyang Xu at Keio University in Japan.

This floating AI robot looks like it escaped a Studio Ghibli film, and that’s exactly the point

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The days of unrestricted social media for children may be coming to an end

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Meta’s detection tool fails to identify photos generated by its own Muse Image AI

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Meta’s addictive Instagram and Facebook design could lead to billions in fines and a forced redesign

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Instagram is letting people generate AI images of you. Here’s how to stop it.

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Meta’s latest AI model is Muse Spark 1.1 and it can run your computer for you

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AI image generators have escaped nightmare fingers and entered the fake premium era

I tested Meta Muse, Gemini Nano Banana 2, and ChatGPT Images 2.0. The obvious AI failures are fading, but the new flaws are harder to laugh off.
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Meta could be working on always-seeing, always-hearing smart glasses with AI super sensing

Meta is reportedly testing “super sensing” AI glasses that will collect all the information about your life and feed it to an AI agent that will assist you.
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Meta will disable the camera on AI smart glasses if you tamper or cover the indicator light

Meta is rolling out an update, starting with its second-generation smart glasses, that will disable the camera capture system if the LED light is covered or physically tampered with.
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Meta’s new AI can generate images of you from your Instagram, and you’re opted in 

Meta's Muse Image lets anyone use your public Instagram photos to generate AI images of your likeness, without notifying you, and it's switched on by default.
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Meta’s new image and video AI tools let you turn Instagram into your creative mood board

Meta's Muse Image is live now on meta.ai, Instagram, and WhatsApp with agentic image generation, and Instagram-handle prompting.
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Meta under scrutiny after Instagram approved child abuse advertisements in India

Instagram approved and displayed advertisements promoting child sexual abuse material in India before removing them following an investigation.
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Meta just launched a vibe-coding app for games, and it’s called Pocket

Meta has quietly launched Pocket, a new AI-powered app that lets users create, play, and share mini-games simply by describing them in plain English.
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Meta will now charge you for the best AI feature on its smart glasses, and there’s a limit even if you pay

Meta has capped free use of Conversation Focus, the Ray-Ban Meta glasses feature that amplifies a speaker's voice in loud settings, to three hours a month. Unlocking more requires users to subscribe to a $19.99 monthly Meta One Premium subscription.
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Meta’s Brain2Qwerty v2 turns thoughts into text, and it doesn’t need brain implants

Meta has unveiled Brain2Qwerty v2, an AI system that converts brain activity into text without surgery, bringing assistive communication a step closer to reality.
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Meta was sneakily tracking its employees, but soon shut it down after an internal leak

Meta halted its employee tracking program, which collected keystrokes, screen content, and mouse movements, after sensitive data was leaked internally.
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Meta launches its own smart glasses and one of them is designed by Kylie Jenner

Meta has unveiled its first self-branded smart glasses, including a special Kylie Jenner edition and the debut of the company's new MuseSpark AI platform.
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The race to make smart glasses look less awkward has begun, and I love what I see

An Italian startup called Lorika just launched Ontop, brightly colored clip-on covers that make your Ray-Ban Meta glasses pop.
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Instagram lands on Samsung TVs, with episodic series and live TV coming to your screen soon

Meta is testing interest-based channels, phone-to-TV casting, and a horizontal video hub as Instagram for TV expands beyond Samsung's launch.
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A US state wants to ban smart glasses while driving, and it could open Pandora’s box

Smart glasses are rapidly evolving from niche gadgets into mainstream consumer technology. Devices from companies such as Meta, Google, Apple, and Snap are increasingly capable of displaying notifications, providing navigation, recording video, and even running AI-powered assistants directly in a user’s field of view. But one U.S. state is already asking an important question: Should […]
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Threads makes it easier to find your community and tune out what you don’t want to see

Threads is rolling out upgrades to its Communities feature and a new feed personalization tool called Your Algo.
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Facebook now has an answering genie for all your burning questions, just like Google Search

Meta is rolling out AI Mode on Facebook, a new feature that uses Meta AI to answer questions by pulling from public content across Meta apps, rather than returning standard search results.
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Meta is testing smart glass facial recognition tech that’s also used by police and military: Report

An investigative report reveals that Meta licensed face recognition from Rank One, a Pentagon contractor, and built a system called NameTag into an app on 50 million phones before deleting it.
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Meta employees are revolting against its AI rules and it’s a lesson for us all

Meta’s AI restructuring has sparked employee frustration, petitions, and public outbursts, highlighting the growing tension between rapid AI development and workplace morale.
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Meta’s creepy smart glasses just found their best use case yet

The gadget often criticized for seeing too much is about to help thousands of blind veterans see the world a little differently.
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Facebook and Messenger outage sparks logout panic as Meta services stumble

A brief Meta outage logged users out of Facebook and Messenger, sent Downdetector complaints surging, and also affected Instagram while Threads remained less clear in available reports.
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WhatsApp’s new iPhone update makes juggling two accounts much less annoying

WhatsApp is rolling out multiple accounts on iPhone, letting users add a second number in the main app while keeping chats, calls, notifications, and settings separate.
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Instagram’s new voice message effects let you sound like a pirate, a grandma, or a World Cup fan

Instagram is expanding its AI-powered effects for voice notes to more users, growing the feature from eight effects at its India launch in March to 15, including a new Goal! filter tied to the FIFA World Cup.
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The Social Reckoning trailer is out, and Jeremy Strong feels like the perfect choice to play Mark Zuckerberg

Aaron Sorkin returns with The Social Reckoning, a companion piece to The Social Network centered on the Facebook whistleblower scandal and Jeremy Strong as Zuckerberg.
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Meta denied face scanning tech on AI smartglasses, and then silently wiped the evidence

Dormant face-recognition code reportedly appeared in Meta’s smart glasses app, then disappeared after scrutiny. That has put Meta’s AI eyewear plans back under the privacy spotlight.
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Meta’s AI feed is starting to sound like a late-night internet rabbit hole

Meta’s AI app is reportedly being flooded with clickbait, fake stories, and engagement-driven AI-generated posts as the company pushes toward a more social AI experience.
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Snap sent alerts to students during class hours despite knowing the risk of distraction

Internal documents from lawsuits filed by 1,400+ school districts reveal how Meta, Snap, TikTok, and YouTube deliberately targeted students, even during school hours.