Author: Josh Constine

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Facebook now flags and down-ranks fake news with help from outside fact checkers

December 15, 2016
Josh Constine

 Snopes, FactCheck.org, Politifact and ABC News will help Facebook make good on four of the six…

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Facebook Messenger’s artsy new camera turns any text into filters

December 15, 2016
Josh Constine

 What’s better than a few geofilters? A billion algorithmically generated filters. That’s Facebook Messenger’s strategy to…

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Periscope sunk without Twitter’s wings

December 14, 2016
Josh Constine

 Periscope is slipping beneath the waves. It’s steadily dropped from No. 23 on the overall iOS…

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Imgur matures into a meme social network with chat and following

December 13, 2016
Josh Constine

 There should be a term for how, given enough time, every social app adds a chat…

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Facebook Events app comes to Android

December 12, 2016
Josh Constine

 Facebook’s standalone Events app that launched in October on iOS is launching on Android today. The…

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Facebook launches Live 360 video from NatGeo now, everyone next year

December 12, 2016
Josh Constine

 Following YouTube’s rollout of 4K 360 live broadcasting, but beating Twitter’s Periscope to the punch, Facebook…

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Facebook tests turning comment reels into message threads

December 8, 2016
Josh Constine

 Comments on Facebook posts can get quite chatty, so Facebook is trying a new way to…

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Anomalie cuts the insane markups out of custom wedding dresses

December 7, 2016
Josh Constine

 Wedding-dress shopping should be a fairy tale, but it’s usually a scam. You pay $5,000 for…