When Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg recently announced a "Like" button that publishers could place on their Web pages, he predicted it would make the Web smarter and "more social." What ...

It was summer 2007. Facebook was three years old and growing at a heady pace. Originally for college students, it had opened to the public the previous fall. Now it had 30 million users. What it ...

The internet wouldn’t be the same without the Like button, the thumbs-up icon that Facebook and other online services turned into digital catnip. Like it or not, the button has served as a creative ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The German government on Friday declared the Facebook “Like” button, ...

Meta just dropped a bombshell on developers and nostalgic web surfers: the classic Facebook “Like” and “Comment” plugins for third-party sites are toast. Come February 10, 2026, these relics from the ...

When was the last time you clicked the Like button on some piece of content outside of Facebook, causing anyone who sees your Facebook activity to see your little recommendation in their news feed?

Facebook is killing off two external social plugins, the FB Like button and the FB Comment button. Credit: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GettyImages It's the end of a major ...

Likes and shares made the social media site what it is. Now, company documents show, it’s struggling to deal with their effects. By Mike Isaac SAN FRANCISCO — In 2019, Facebook researchers began a new ...

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Illustration of the social plugins from Facebook ahead of their discontinuation. (Meta) Next year will see the end arrive for two of Facebook's external social plugins. The platform's Like button and ...

The Facebook Like button, one of the most recognisable symbols of the social web, is being retired, but not in the way many assume. Meta has announced that it will discontinue the Facebook Like and ...