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FB slammed for banning breast cancer non-profit's ads

Facebook bans Canadian white nationalism accounts

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…]

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…]

Facebook exposed millions of Instagram passwords

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

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…]

Facebook to punish Groups for spreading fake news

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

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…]

For Facebook, Kashmir is separate entity from India

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 exploring new ways to fight fake news fast

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…]

Youth held for objectionable Facebook post about Andhra Home Minister

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…]

Youth held for objectionable Facebook post about Andhra Home Minister

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…]

Facebook likely to hire journalists to tackle fake news

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…]

FB slammed for banning breast cancer non-profit's ads

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…]

Top Facebook, WhatsApp executives quit: Mark Zuckerberg

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

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…]





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