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Or rather, a set of six emoji with which you can react to friends’ Facebook posts now.

Facebook already shows how many people like a post and lets you tap or click on the count for a list of people. Instead, the world has been graced with Facebook‘s new “Reactions” – emoticons that users can use to clarify their emotions when they like a...

Since Facebook and Twitter launched a campaign on their social media networking sites to delete material advocating terrorism, many Daesh supporters have moved to other platforms, such as Telegram, where the video threatening Zuckerberg and Dorsey was discovered by Vocativ on...

On a smartphone, holding down the like button will bring up a panel that lets users select which reaction they’d like to use, while simply hovering over the like button will reveal them on a desktop computer. Facebook distributes such information about “likes”...

Facebook calls the new feature “Reactions”. It has been testing them for some time in some markets but has just pushed them out to users throughout the world. The Wall Street Journal reported in November that Facebook users are posting less on the social network, but...

That’s well below the 2M+ claimed by Facebook proper, but more than the 130K claimed by Twitter as of Q4.

Facebook has expanded its “like” button range to include six new “Reactions”, allowing users to not only “like” a post but also have the option to express anger, love, laughter, or excitement. There’s no turning back now. For instance, if...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg voiced his support for Apple in its battle with the government, which is demanding that the company build a backdoor into the iPhone.

In changing a core part of Facebook – the 7-year-old “like” button has become synonymous with the social network – the company said it tried to keep things familiar.

Beyond virtual reality video, Facebook is also now looking to bring the technology to social, creating a new team dedicated to that cause. “We believe in encryption; we think that that’s an important tool”, Zuckerberg said on stage at Mobile World Congress in...

Facebook members have long called for a dislike button and the new options – called “Reactions” by Facebook – are the closest thing. Considering the amount of different languages Facebook supports and the different cultures in which the social network is...

“We don’t want people that are doing that stuff on Facebook”, he said.

Affordable data plans and rising global incomes saw almost 3.2 billion people going online from desktop to smartphones and ipads in the year 2015 – Up from three billion in 2014 – Facebook’s latest report on global internet access has revealed.

Manchester United are ready to bring forward plans to appoint Ryan Giggs as Louis van Gaal’s successor, according to the Sunday Mirror.

To counter complaints that he had sold out, Luckey told me that Oculus would stay an independent company within Facebook.