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Facebook exams Hotline, a Q&A product thats a mashup of Clubhouse and Instagram Live

Facebook’s inside R&D team, NPE Team, has at the present introduced its latest experiment, Hotline, into public beta checking out. The web-based device may be able to be described as a mashup of Instagram Live and Clubhouse, as it allows creators to speak to an audience who can then ask questions by the use of …
Facebook’s internal R&D group, NPE Team, has today launched its latest experiment, Hotline, into public beta testing. The web-based application could be described as a mashup of Instagram Live and Clubhouse, as it allows creators to speak to an audience who can then ask questions through …

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