It’s not a glitch (as I initially suspected). People are replacing their profile pictures with a plain blue photo to stand in solidarity with Sudan. There’s an ongoing humanitarian crisis in ...

For example, suppose you want to change your profile photo. This is yet another of Facebook’s ridiculously obscure settings that’s actually hiding in plain sight. (Previous offender ...

The blacked out photos some Facebook users replaced their usual profile photo with Sunday ... rather than the plain black photo that was appearing on feeds Sunday. Some women got the message ...

and James L. Knight Foundation finds that 18% of U.S. social media users say they have changed their profile pictures to draw attention to an issue or event. Of those who changed their pictures, 42% ...

The movement, fomented by a photo-editing tool that Facebook launched on 26 June, is a response to major news events that we’ve seen before: Profile picture change campaigns have become as ...