Dark mode fans and on this case, Facebookers will soon be able to use the App in the new and latest upgrades in there most preferred Dark mode in this era when dark mode wave is still rising.
All, well, almost all of Google Apps just like Slack, Twitter, Reddit…have some form of dark mode either for its apps or web platforms. Facebook wants a piece of that dark mode pie too for its main app.
Facebook had already worked on the dark mode version on its Messenger but are now testing dark mode for its Android app. This recent discovery was made by reverse engineering expert and reliable Facebook unreleased updates and upgrades leaker Jane Wong who tweeted that Facebook has begun working on this feature.
Just like Microsoft, Facebook is preparing its apps for the system-wide dark mode that is set to come with the next Android and iOS versions that will be officially launched a few months to come.
Black text on dark background, I think all of you Dark Mode fanatics will love this one lol pic.twitter.com/3rZNGRtAsP
According to the screenshot shared by Wong, the dark mode has been set relatively well on the groups’ tab of the app. Other parts of the app show either dark text on a dark background or light text on light background indicating that Facebook is yet to refine the dark mode and that we’ll have to wait for longer for a more better looking and uniform dark mode on Facebook.
But the feature is definitely going to be launched officially in a few days to come
Instagram influencers have woken up to another purge that has seen their accounts shut down and deactivated.
According to Facebook spokesperson, the accounts were disabled following multiple violations of platform policies among them attempted abuse of internal processes.
One affected Istagram influencer Declan Mortimer 17, claimed that his account generated up to 20million a year through adverts to his former more than 11 million followers.
Declan said his account deactivated because of Facebook’s massive meme page purge.
On the Night of Friday 26th, Instagram executed yet another purge terminating more than 30 accounts influential accounts with similar meme-like content citing policy violations.
For those who don’t know, a meme is an amusing rather interesting item, such as a captioned picture or video that is spread virally online through social media.
Meme page owners have stated that the termination of their Instagram accounts is heartbreaking and a financial blow to them.
According to Caige, the One 18-year-old whose account “@autist” was deactivated on Thursday said he had already made more than 3million this year alone.
Another affected user stated the action as endgame for influencers. Heavily followed Instagram meme users faced the biggest loss within a few seconds. This includes @Finest.Investions who had more than 13 million followers.
According to sources talking to media, meme pages are being deactivated because they were reaching out to users who also violate Instagram policy by selling verification services, retrieving disabled user names and reinstating banned accounts through a private program that is only supposed to be available for members of the media.
Facebook confirmed that Instagram shuts down accounts that violate the company’s terms of use.
According to facebook, Violations results in termination if ones accounts include;
1. Trying to buy, sell or transfer any aspect of an account (including the username) or use login credentials of other users.
2. Sharing sensitive personal information, names, bank account details, addresses.
3. Transferring funds or sending money through Instagram or Facebook accounts.
Mark Zuckerberg enjoying local dish of fish with ugali at local food joint, Mama Oliech
The Kenyan Mainstream Media has been criticised for none objectivity and over emphasising on irrelevant angles of stories for a real time, the ploy has once again played out in the latest visit of a prominent figure, Facebook’s Founder. The memory is still fresh in many people’s mind how the disjointed Kenyan media reported to the air visiting US pPresint of the U.S. Obama was breathing when he touched down in Nairobi previous year. His jet and security detail dominated the headlines compared to the core issues behind the visit.
Concentrating on sideshows inclines the public’s view, given the fact that majority of Kenyans consume their news via mainstream media and that they have the sole responsibility of setting the agenda, they ought to separate themselves from yellow journalism to being subjective and practice seriousness in the profession.
On his surprise tour of tech hubs in Africa, Mark Zuckerberg has made a pit stop in Nairobi. Announcing his arrival on Facebook, he described talking with entrepreneurs working out of the tech space, the iHub, and dining on ugali and tilapia with Kenya’s cabinet secretary for information and communications, Joe Mucheru. Announcing his core intent for the visit, Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page. “I’m here to meet with entrepreneurs and developers, and to learn about mobile money—where Kenya is the world leader.”
Headlines of Kenya’s mainstream media concentrating on the slideshows ;
Nairobi makes sense as Zuckerberg’s next stop. It is home to the world’s largest mobile money platform, M-Pesa, the crowdsourced disaster mapping platform Ushahidi and companies like M-Kopa, a solar company that sells power to the rural poor on credit, or Bridge International, a controversial for-profit school chain that the Facebook co-founder supports. Other Mobile Banking platforms running in Kenya includes Airtel Money, Orange Money.
Mobile money in Kenya, which allows mobile phone users to send or receive money, undergirds much of the country’s economy from banking and credit scoring to sports betting. For the first six months of this year, 1.59 trillion Kenyan shillings (about $20 million) flowed through mobile money platforms.
In nearly all leading Kenya’s mainstream outlets, they’ve emphasised on the sideshows of where the Billionaire digital entrepreneur was having his lunch his dressing code. While these are news material, they shouldn’t dominate headlines in serious journalism specs. The mainstream media is once again proving Juvenal in the line of duty. Sensationalism should be left to click baiting blogs and not the mainstream platform. Once again you’ve let us down.
