Tag: Facebook

The users can moderate the comments on their post by hiding, deleting or engaging with comments.

It also makes it easier for users to manage what information does or doesn’t get displayed on the public-facing version of their profiles, reports The Verge

Facebook has already suspended apps and accounts associated with South Korean data analytics company – Rankwave

London: As more and more political parties advertise on Facebook to reach out to maximum number of voters, the practice is creating new types of inequalities for campaigners and, in turn, posing new set of challenges for the regulators, warn researchers. Traditional campaigning regulations are based on the theory that[Read More…]

San Francisco: Facebook has removed 118 accounts, Pages and Groups involved in coordinated inauthentic behaviour on its platform, as well as on Instagram, as part of a network emanating from Russia that focused on Ukraine and several other countries. There were 62 Facebook accounts, 10 Pages and 25 Groups. About[Read More…]

Sydney: Facebook is facing criticism from breast cancer survivors after the social network banned an ad campaign run by an Australian breast cancer non-profit, citing nudity rules. The campaign by Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA) which featured topless photos of breast cancer survivors was “specifically designed to draw attention to[Read More…]

San Francisco: Facebook is working hard to launch its own bitcoin for cryptocurrency-based payments on its platform that has 2.38 billion users. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal on Friday, the social media giant is “recruiting dozens of financial firms and online merchants” towards this goal. The[Read More…]

San Francisco: Facebook has decided to shut down a clone of the main Group video chat app called “Houseparty”, which is a virtual hangout for its users in a group. According to The Verge on Friday, the clone app called “Bonfire” which Facebook began testing in 2017, will stop working[Read More…]

New Delhi: Facebook, in partnership with the global startup catalyst T-Hub, on Friday announced to open applications for the second edition of the “India Innovation Accelerator’ programme. In the first edition, T-Hub and Facebook selected a cohort of nine start-ups from 20 shortlisted applications for the three-month programme. These start-ups[Read More…]

San Francisco: Battling several privacy violations, Facebook has kept aside $3 billion, anticipating a record fine coming from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) related to the Cambridge Analytica data scandal that involved 87 million users. “In the first quarter of 2019, we reasonably estimated a probable loss and recorded[Read More…]

San Francisco: Facebook is working on to merge the News Feed and Stories features into a single interface, like Snapchat and Instagram, on its platform. The single interface where users can swipe posts instead of vertically scrolling was discovered by app researcher Jane Manchun Wong in the Android version of[Read More…]

San Francisco: With elections happening around the world month after month, Facebook is kicking off a new collaborative process with outside experts to reduce the distribution of greater quantities of misinformation in a short span of time. “One promising idea we’ve been exploring would involve relying on groups of people[Read More…]

London: Facebook has said that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) violated its guidelines by creating fake profiles on its platform tied to the University of Farmington — a sham institution that left over 600 students, 90 per cent of them Indians, in detention. The Facebook profiles were allegedly[Read More…]

New York: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with over 43.5 million likes on his personal Page and 13.7 million likes on his official Page on Facebook, is the most popular world leader on the social network as more world leaders are now paying to promote their posts, a new report said[Read More…]

San Francisco: In yet another bid to tame fake news, Facebook will crack down on Groups that repeatedly share misinformation by reducing that Group’s overall News Feed distribution. The social media platform will also hold admins of the Facebook Groups more accountable for the Community Standards violations. “When people in[Read More…]

San Francisco: Facebook will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to determine if a user is dead but his or her contacts keep receiving notifications like a birthday reminder. In 2015, Facebook introduced a feature that lets people choose a legacy contact – a family member or friend entrusted to care for[Read More…]