Jane Manchun Wong
Hong Kong-American technology blogger and app researcher (born 1994)
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Jane Manchun Wong (born April 13, 1994)[2] is a Hong Kong technology blogger and app researcher best known for discovering unreleased features of online services such as Facebook or Instagram.[1][3][4][5]
- Technology blogger
- app researcher
- white hat hacker[1]
Jane Manchun Wong | |||||||||||||
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Wong in 2024 | |||||||||||||
| Born | April 13, 1994 | ||||||||||||
| Education | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (dropped out) | ||||||||||||
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| Years active | 2017–present | ||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 黃文津 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 黄文津 | ||||||||||||
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| Website | wongmjane | ||||||||||||
In December 2021, Wong was featured on Forbes' 2022 30 Under 30: Social Media list.[6] Between June 2023 and October 2024, she was an employee of Meta, working on Instagram and Threads.[5][7][8]
Personal life
Wong is a self-taught coder who grew up in Hong Kong.[4] She developed an interest in security vulnerabilities at a young age. At seven, she circumvented her parents' controls on their computer by replacing Microsoft Windows with Linux to "prove the point".[3][9]
Wong studied computer science at UMass Dartmouth but left a few months prior to graduating due to medical issues.[1][10] In June 2023, she relocated to San Francisco to work on Instagram and Threads for Meta[7][11] before being laid off in October 2024.[8] In December 2024, she stated on Threads that she was joining a new startup as a senior software engineer.[12]
Discoveries
Wong's first notable discovery came in October 2017 when she revealed Facebook was testing a résumé feature.[9][13]
In 2018, Wong leaked screenshots of Facebook Dating's homepage before its release and also revealed a map feature on Facebook which shows the locations of nearby friends.[1]
On April 18, 2019, she announced Instagram was testing hiding like counts, which was confirmed twelve days later by Adam Mosseri.[4]
Among other discoveries, Wong also revealed LinkedIn's dark mode, Lyft's digital wallet, and Twitter users having an option to hide replies to their tweets.[7][9]
Wong discovers these features by examining sites' public source code.[14]