Facebook shuts down its controversial face recognition feature and TikTok increases its caption character count: The Newsfeed

By Jennifer Adetoro - 04 Nov 2021
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Posted by Jennifer Adetoro in News

5 years ago

Off the back of Facebook Inc’s rebrand as Meta, the company is shutting down its controversial face recognition feature and deleting the face data collected from billions of users. Meanwhile, Instagram has globally launched a series of new updates, including a new Add Yours sticker for public threads in Stories. Think Reddit meets Snapchat. Add Yours will allow users to respond to Stories from other users…

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