San Francisco: In its first crackdown against white nationalism and separatism on its platform, Facebook has banned far-right political commentator Faith Goldy and Canadian white nationalist groups including from Instagram. Facebook last month abandoned a long-standing policy of allowing white supremacy to thrive on its platforms as nations criticised it[Read More…]
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Facebook ‘morally bankrupt pathological liars’, says John Edwards
Wellington: New Zealand’s privacy commissioner John Edwards has labelled Facebook as “morally bankrupt pathological liars” after the social media platform’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried to play down the Facebook livestreaming of Christchurch shooting that killed 50 people. “Facebook cannot be trusted. They are morally bankrupt pathological liars who enable genocide[Read More…]
Cyber thugs running ‘criminal flea market’ on Facebook
The majority of cyber thugs groups use fairly obvious group names, including ‘Spam Professional’, ‘Spammer & Hacker Professional’, and ‘Facebook hack (Phishing)’.
Facebook, Instagram & Messenger to end support with Windows phone by April 30
Facebook would end support for Windows phone by April 30, 2019
Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram to end support for these phones by April 30
Social media giant Facebook is looking to end support for some of its applications for Windows smartphones. The same has been confirmed by Microsoft spokesperson who confirmed that Facebook would end support for Windows Phone by April 30, 2019. With the popularity of Windows Phones diminishing day-by-day, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram[Read More…]
Facebook app developers exposed users’ data: Report
San Francisco: In yet another shocking revelation, US-based cyber security firm UpGuard has found that Facebook app developers left millions of user records, including comments, likes and reactions, exposed on the Amazon Cloud servers. The third-party Facebook app developers exposed data in the public domain in two large datasets that[Read More…]
Facebook, WhatsApp become fake news factories in India
By Nishant Arora New Delhi: Barely a week away from when the world’s largest democracy goes to polls, the fake news factories on Facebook and its owned WhatsApp have become active like never before as the social media giant scramble for solutions which are few and far between. The game[Read More…]
Mizoram: Kid accidentally runs cycle over chicken; wins hearts by rushing it to hospital with meager savings
We are bound to say out loud #InnocenceAtItsPeak after watch a viral picture of a Mizoram kid who accidentally ran his bicycle over his neighbour chicken but rushed it to a nearby hospital with whatever money he had in his pocket. A Facebook user recently shared a now-viral post according to[Read More…]
Facebook asking users for passwords for their email accounts
San Francisco: Facebook is asking users to disclose passwords to their personal email accounts in order to access the social networking platform, the media reported. A message has been flashing on some Facebook users’ log-in screen, demanding them to enter the password of the email ID they built their Facebook[Read More…]
Facebook likely to hire journalists to tackle fake news
San Francisco: In order to better tackle fake news and improve the quality of content on its platform, Facebook might hire a new generation of digital-era journalists and news publishers. In a discussion with Mathias Dopfner, CEO of Europe’s largest publisher Axel Springer, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday talked[Read More…]
Facebook kills 687 fake accounts linked to Congress, party responds
New Delhi: In a startling revelation ahead of the general elections, Facebook on Monday announced it has removed 687 spam Facebook Pages and accounts connected to individuals associated with the Congress party’s IT cell. The individuals engaging in this coordinated inauthentic behaviour used fake accounts and joined various Groups to[Read More…]
Delhi man duped of lakhs by Nigerian national on Facebook
New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a Delhi-based businessman has been duped of Rs 5.9 lakh by a Nigerian national, who allegedly befriended him on Facebook while posing as a London-based woman, police said. According to police, the accused, identified as Ogbondo Ifeanyi Henrey, 35, was arrested when a team[Read More…]
For Facebook, Kashmir is separate entity from India
New Delhi: As Facebook announced it has removed thousands of fake Pages and accounts, the social media giant mentioned Kashmir separately along with India and a few other countries, giving an impression that Kashmir is independent of India. Jammu and Kashmir is an Indian state and New Delhi views delinking[Read More…]
Facebook shuts down thousands of fake Pages, accounts
San Francisco: Facebook has removed 2,632 Pages, Groups and accounts that were engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior from Iran, Russia, Macedonia and Kosovo on its platform, as well as on Instagram. The social media platform said it did not find any links between these sets of activities but they used[Read More…]
Facebook launches tools to boost election engagement
New Delhi: Social-networking site Facebook on Tuesday launched two new India-specific tools — “Candidate Connect” and “Share You Voted” — to boost civic engagement on its platform during the general elections that commence in April. While “Candidate Connect” will help people learn more about candidates, the “Share You Voted” will[Read More…]
Sona Mohapatra slams Mallika Dua, says “Your feminism of convenience isn’t fooling anyone”
Singer Sona Mohapatra and comedian Mallika Dua have been indulged in a social media tussle for quite a few time now, revolving around the #IndiaMeToo campaign. Recently, Mallika Dua had took to social media to call out Sona Mohapatra over suicide of a person named Arghya Basu, who was accused of sexual[Read More…]
Facebook stored millions of account passwords in plain text and readable format
There were around 200-600 million Facebook users that may have their account passwords stored in plain text and were also searched by over 2,000 Facebook employees
Facebook brings quoted message replies to Messenger
San Francisco: To help people not lose the threads of conversations on Messenger, Facebook has introduced the quoted message reply feature on its messaging platform, the media reported. The feature works just like it does on WhatsApp. So with the roll out of the feature, the 1.3 billion users of[Read More…]
AirAsia CEO expresses discontent over viral New Zealand terror attack videos, quits Facebook
AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes has deleted his Facebook account saying the live streaming of the mass shooting in New Zealand that claimed the lives of 50 people, on the platform was too much for him. He said that, “social media giant needed to “clean up and not just think of[Read More…]
New Zealand terror attack: Facebook failed to block 300,000 videos
Many people are calling on Facebook to release the engagement figures.
Facebook under lens for ‘covering up’ data scandal
London: Federal prosecutors in the US are now probing whether top executives of Facebook, mired in data breaches, were aware of data harvesting by the British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. According to a report in The Guardian on Sunday, federal prosecutors’ investigation claims that the social media giant has[Read More…]
Facebook initiates roll-out of gaming tab on app
San Francisco: Social networking giant Facebook has begun the initial roll-out of a dedicated gaming tab as part of the app’s main navigation. Facebook claims that over 700 million people play games, watch gaming videos or engage in gaming groups on the platform and the gaming tab will help them[Read More…]
Christchurch terror attack: Facebook removes New Zealand shooters’ accounts
Christchurch: Facebook on Friday said it removed both the shooters’ accounts and a live streaming video after they opened fire at two mosques in New Zealand’s Christchurch city, causing “multiple fatalities”. “Police alerted us to a video on Facebook shortly after the live stream commenced and we quickly removed both[Read More…]
Top Facebook, WhatsApp executives quit: Mark Zuckerberg
San Francisco: As Facebook pushes for a more private and encrypted communication across its apps, two of its top executives — Chief Product Officer Chris Cox and WhatsApp Vice President Chris Daniels — have quit the company, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced. Embroiled in data privacy scandals amid the unabated[Read More…]
WhatsApp co-founder urges deleting Facebook accounts
San Francisco: Speaking publicly about his differences with Facebook, WhatsApp’s co-founder Brian Acton urged Stanford University students to delete their Facebook accounts, as he explained his reasons for selling the app to Mark Zuckerberg in the first place. Acton made statements on Facebook while addressing a panel that also involved[Read More…]