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Getty (3) These women at the70th Annual Primetime Emmy Awardsprove that for some stars, style only gets better with age. Light, 69, wore the red carpet color of the night with silver heeled sandals and Chopard diamond earrings, but what was most special about her look was the small pin she put over her heart. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP/REX/Shutterstock Check out all ofPEOPLE’s 2018 Emmys coveragehere The actress wore the original jeweled red ribbon thatElizabeth Taylorwore when she accepted the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Oscar 25 years ago, in support of The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation....

Photo: Getty “It’s clear that these concepts are deeply linked to organized hate groups and have no place on our services,” Facebook said in a news release about the ban. Until now, Facebook said it had considered nationalism and separatism tamer issues than white supremacy, which it has “long prohibited.” “But over the past three months our conversations with members of civil society and academics who are experts in race relations around the world have confirmed that white nationalism and separatism cannot be meaningfully separated from white supremacy and organized hate groups,” the company stated in its release....

Photo: Getty ImagesThese may not be the shades to wear for an unplugged beach day.Facebook is coming out with a pair of “smart glasses” in collaboration with iconic sunglass brand Ray-Ban, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Wednesday during the company’ssecond quarter earnings call.“The next product release will be the launch of our first smart glasses from Ray-Ban in partnership with EssilorLuxottica,” Zuckerberg, 37, told investors. “The glasses have their iconic form factor, and they let you do some pretty neat things....

Photo: Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty It’s a dark day for social media. On Wednesday, at around 12 p.m. ET Facebook and Instagram users reported issues while logging in and loading posts on their feed. The outage not only affected people in the U.S. but also Central and South America Europe and Australia,according to Down Detector. Angry usersexpressed their frustrationon Twitter writing, “There is some serious problem with Instagram. Suddenly it stopped working....

Facebook.Photo: JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images Facebookis showing its support for employees who experiencedomestic violence. On Wednesday, Facebook Inc. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg introduced the company’s new paid leave policy for workers who suffer domestic abuse or sexual assault,Bloombergreported. The policy allows all global employees to take up to 20 paid days off if they, a relative or loved one has suffered physical or sexual abuse, according to Bloomberg....

The social media stalwart announced on Thursday that it has canceled the “in-person component” of its annual F8 developer conference — which was scheduled to be held in San Jose, California in May — in light of “the growing concerns around COVID-19.” “This was a tough call to make — F8 is an incredibly important event for Facebook and it’s one of our favorite ways to celebrate all of you from around the world — but we need to prioritize the health and safety of our developer partners, employees and everyone who helps put F8 on,” acompany blog postread....

Photo: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty The worldwide crashing of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram has caused pandemonium among social media users. The three Facebook-owned apps appeared to go offline Monday morning, with error messages popping up for consumers. DownDetector, a website that tracks real-time outage information, reported Facebook had thousands of reported outages from users since before noon ET. Monday’s crash marks the worst outage for Facebook since 2008 when a bug caused Facebook to be offline for nearly a day, according toCNBC, which also reported that there was an hour-long outage back in 2019 when Facebook blamed the issue on a server configuration change....

Photo: Getty And it’s not even ourbirthday! Facebook is treating everyone like it’s their special day on Friday in celebration of their latest launch: Birthday Stories. The feature allows Facebook friends to upload digital cards, photos and videos to a special story that pops up when it’s your birthday. No more trying to keep track of who wished you “Happy Birthday” on their own Facebook story—everything is now all in one curated place....

Photo: Dominic Lipinski/PA WireFacebook is stepping up its fight against revenge porn.The social media company (which also owns Instagram) announced Friday that it would be introducing new technology aimed at identifying images of a sexual nature that may have been shared without the subject’s consent and offering new resources to victims of revenge pornography.“Nobody should have intimate images shared without their permission,” Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview....

Photo: Getty Facebook is in the early stages of testing a newdating appto help users find their soul mates. In order to use the new online dating service, Facebook users will be tasked with creating a new profile that will exist separately from the one that all of your friends and family can see. And don’t worry, Facebook Dating won’t share your activities to yours or anybody else’s Facebook profile or News Feeds....

Facebookis showing its support for women around the country who are creating change and paving the way. In honor ofInternational Women’s Dayon Monday, the social networking platform announced the launch of their video campaign titled “Hall of Her,” which Facebook is sharing with PEOPLE. The campaign will highlight the work of women leaders who are “making herstory” and impacting society “in big and little (yet profoundly positive) ways,” according to Facebook....

Photo: FacebookFacebook Messenger Kids has been giving parents and their children a supervised channel of communication since 2017, letting kids chat freely with friends and loved ones.While parents have always had the final say in who their kids are talking to — and just what messages and images they’re sending and receiving — a slew of new safety features are ready to make the app even more accessible.Messenger Kids announced a new parent dashboard on Tuesday, meaning some of the features that parents were previously able to access on their child’s device are now available to view in one place in a more streamlined manner on devices of their own....

Instagram.Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Facebook is haltingits plans to launch a kids' version of Instagramfollowing a report about the “toxic” effects that the popular app has on adolescents. Six months after Facebook introduced its plans for “Instagram Kids,” which would be tailored to children under the age of 13, the social networking company said they have paused their plans to ensure the safety of its young users. “We started this project to address an important problem seen across our industry: kids are getting phones younger and younger, misrepresenting their age, and downloading apps that are meant for those 13 or older,” Mosseri continued....