Skip to main content
  1. Home
  2. Facebook

Facebook

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.

Body Part, Finger, Hand

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.
Meta Glasses

Meta launches its own smart glasses and one of them is designed by Kylie Jenner

Lorika glass clip ons

The race to make smart glasses look less awkward has begun, and I love what I see

instagram-samsung-tv

Instagram lands on Samsung TVs, with episodic series and live TV coming to your screen soon

Snap Specs AR smart glasses

A US state wants to ban smart glasses while driving, and it could open Pandora’s box

Threads Communities upgrades and Your Algo release featured

Threads makes it easier to find your community and tune out what you don’t want to see

Screenshots showing Facebook's new AI-powered Search results

Facebook now has an answering genie for all your burning questions, just like Google Search

Meta Glasses

Meta is testing smart glass facial recognition tech that’s also used by police and military: Report

Meta Connect 2025

Meta employees are revolting against its AI rules and it’s a lesson for us all

Meta Ray Bans Display close up shot

Meta’s creepy smart glasses just found their best use case yet

Meta featured image

Facebook and Messenger outage sparks logout panic as Meta services stumble

WhatsApp Logo

WhatsApp’s new iPhone update makes juggling two accounts much less annoying

Instagram voice message filters featured

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.
the-social-reckoning-jeremy-strong-mark-zuckerberg

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.
Meta Ray-Ban Gen 2 Smart Glasses

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.
iPhone showing Meta AI Support Assistant

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.
Snapchat-App-Store-open-on-iPhone

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.
facebook-Creator-Assistant

Facebook’s new AI Creator Assistant wants to be your personal content strategist

Meta has launched Creator Assistant, a conversational AI tool built into the Facebook creator dashboard that analyzes your content performance, explains why it worked, and suggests new ideas based on trending content.
Meta Ray-Ban Gen 2 Smart Glasses

Meta accused of preparing facial recognition features for AI smart glasses

A WIRED investigation claims Meta quietly embedded facial recognition technology into its smart glasses ecosystem, reviving privacy concerns around biometric surveillance and wearable AI.
iPhone showing Meta AI Support Assistant

Don’t hold your breath for Meta’s Muse Spark AI to pop up in your phone apps anytime soon

Meta’s next big AI model may not be arriving as quickly as the company originally hoped. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Meta has repeatedly delayed the release of its upcoming flagship AI model, internally known as “Muse Spark,” raising fresh questions about the company’s AI ambitions and readiness. The delays reportedly […]
meta-instagram-global-teen-protections

Instagram will stop bombarding teens with the same kind of obsessively unhealthy content

Meta is testing a new Instagram feature to prevent teens from being repeatedly served the same content, as it expands 13+ content settings globally.
AI Chatbots

It’s not just you. Research says people don’t like overtly friendly AI chatbots

New research suggests users prefer AI chatbots that match their personality instead of assistants that sound excessively cheerful or emotionally exaggerated.
meta-ai-chatbot-threads

After smart glasses, Meta apparently wants you to wear its all-listening AI pendant

After putting AI in glasses, Meta reportedly wants to bring it even closer. Not everyone will be comfortable with the idea.
Instagram

Instagram Plus may tempt creators, but WhatsApp Plus is an easier skip

Meta is bringing paid features to Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. Instagram Plus may appeal to creators and heavy users, while WhatsApp Plus looks harder to justify.
A busy office

Google, Meta and Microsoft are getting worker data from sneaky bossware tools, report says

The software tracking your work hours may also be feeding data to Big Tech. A new Northeastern study shows how bossware is becoming a wider privacy problem.
Animal, Bear, Mammal

Meta built a Reddit rival out of Facebook Groups

Meta’s new Forum app turns Facebook Groups into a standalone hub for questions, recommendations, and AI-powered search, giving the company a Reddit-like test built from communities it already owns.
Meta Ray-Ban Display and EMG Band.

Meta’s Ray-Ban Display now types messages from your finger movements

Meta's latest update brings Neural Handwriting to all Ray-Ban Display owners, which unlocks typing messages via subtle finger movements using the included Neural Band.
ai-agent-handling-office-tasks

Wowed by computer-use AI agents? Research says they’re “digital disasters” even for routine tasks

New research from UC Riverside found computer-use AI agents often push ahead with unsafe or irrational tasks, raising questions about whether today’s desktop agents are ready for sensitive everyday workflows.
OpenAI Sam Altman and LoveFrom Jony Ive with Laurene Powell Jobs

Bombshell OpenAI lawsuit claims your ChatGPT convos were shared with Google and Meta

A new class action claims OpenAI shared ChatGPT prompts and user identifiers with Google and Meta trackers, raising fresh privacy concerns around intimate chatbot conversations.
Meta Ray Bans Display close up shot

Meta will allow third-party apps for Ray-Ban Display glasses. Your eyes must stay glued to digital reality.

Meta is opening up the Ray-Ban Display glasses to third-party developers, and it could change how useful smart glasses actually are in your daily life.
meta-ai-chatbot-threads

Meta is testing an AI bot to unleash the same online stupidity that is AskGrok on X

Meta is testing an AI bot on Threads that works just like Grok on X, responding publicly to user mentions in conversations.
A verified account on Instagram Threads.

You can’t block Meta’s AI bot on Threads. I don’t know what we did to deserve this.

Threads users are furious after discovering Meta's new AI chatbot cannot be blocked like any other account on the platform.
whatsapp-incognito-chat-with-meta-ai

Meta says WhatsApp is now the safest app to chat… with an AI

WhatsApp now has a private incognito mode for Meta AI chats, where messages disappear and even Meta cannot read your conversations with the assistant.
Electronics, Mobile Phone, Phone

Instagram’s teen crackdown moves from DMs to feeds

Instagram’s new supervision tools will show parents which topics shape teen recommendations, moving Meta’s safety push beyond private messages and deeper into the feed that keeps young users scrolling.
WhatsApp Plus screenshots.

WhatsApp Plus is here, and you can safely ignore this subscription

WhatsApp Plus has arrived on iPhone, but when Telegram Premium offers functional upgrades, and Signal gives everything away free, does Meta's new subscription actually earn its keep?
Artificial Intelligence

Meta’s own employees are having a hard time digesting AI. Who would’ve thought?

Meta is tracking employee keystrokes, tying AI usage to performance reviews, and laying off thousands — all at once — and somehow seems surprised that morale is in freefall.
online-ads-profiling-by-ai

Meta wants an AI agent to go Instagram shopping for you and pull the whole agent stunt

Meta is reportedly building AI tools that can complete everyday tasks, including an Instagram shopping assistant planned for late 2026.
meta-AI-Age-Assurance-teen-safety

Meta’s AI scans photos for bone structure to catch underage users on Instagram and Facebook

Meta is using AI visual analysis to scan photos and videos for physical indicators like height and bone structure to detect and remove users under 13 from Instagram and Facebook.