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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Andrew Griffin

Facebook becomes more like Instagram in major update as Meta tries to reboot its flagship app

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is introducing AI chatbots across the companies platforms, including WhatsApp - (AFP via Getty Images)

Meta has launched a host of changes to Facebook as it attempts to reboot its flagship app.

While the Facebook app remains popular, it has lost much of its place in the public and cultural conversation that it once had and which is still held by other Meta apps such as Instagram. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has said explicitly that he is aiming to make the app “culturally influential” in the way that it once was.

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