Rumours: Facebook brings back Messenger to App

FastCompany recently posted some rumours on possible integration of FB Messenger back to Facebook app: Until 2014, Facebook users were able to send and receive Facebook messages in the primary app. But then Facebook decided to remove the messaging feature from the app and forced users to use the dedicated Facebook Messenger app to send and receive Facebook messages. Wong speculates that the reversal of this policy is in preparation of Facebook integrating its messaging services across all its apps: Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram....

April 12, 2019 · 2 min · anvyst

#delete campaigns: social solidarity vs privacy

Uber: Travel ban January 2017, we witnessed #deleteuber social media campaign. The movement erupted after Trump’s ban on travel ban from Muslim-majority countries, when NYC taxi drivers went on strike. At the very same moment Uber announced “surged pricing on JFK airport” being turned off. February 2017 benchmarks shown 200,000 accounts being deleted as an act of solidarity against US President decision. Cambridge Analytica: Elections March 2018, Christopher Wylie, whistleblower from Cambridge Analytica (has nothing to do with famous university), gives an interview to Guardian on how the company was collecting Facebook user profiles and presumably helped targeting elections campaign for Republican Party to win the elections....

April 9, 2018 · 3 min · anvyst