New Delhi: As India faces elections in a couple of months, Facebook said it will launch transparency tools for electoral ads next month in the country to help prevent foreign interference and make political and issue advertising on its platform more transparent. According to a report in Quartz on Tuesday,[Read More…]
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Facebook to launch transparency tools for electoral ads in India
Advertisers will need to be authorised to purchase political ads and the social networking giant will give people more information about ads related to politics and issues. “We will create a publicly searchable library of these ads for up to seven years. The library will include information on the range[Read More…]
Facebook plans to integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger
The integration of WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger is expected to be completed by the end of 2019 or early next year.
Facebook to proactively shut down fake Pages, Groups
San Francisco, Facebook will proactively shut down fake Groups and Pages, even if they were not found to be in violation of its Community Guidelines, the company has announced. In a blog post on Wednesday, the social media giant said when a Page or Group is removed for violating policies,[Read More…]
Check out the poster of the film ‘Facebook wala love’
Facebook Wala Pyar is all set to release on Valentines Day.
Aryan Khan’s Facebook account gets hacked, informs followers via Instagram
The actor’s son has informed his followers on Instagram about Facebook getting hacked in a story post.
Facebook users to now petition elected officials for change
San Francisco: Facebook is set to launch a petitions feature called “Community Actions” that will let users request a change from their local and national elected officials and government agencies. According to a report in TechCrunch late Sunday, “Community Actions” will be a petition feature in Facebook’s News Feed and[Read More…]
Facebook testing ‘LOL’ app for kids
San Francisco, Facebook is testing a new app for kids called “LOL” that will let users share and post humorous meme content. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that it was experimenting with the “LOL” hub for kids. “We are running a small scale test and the concept is in[Read More…]
Facebook commits $300 mn to support local news
San Francisco, Facebook has announced to invest over $300 million over the next three years to support local news organisations. In a blog post, Campbell Brown, Vice President, Global News Partnerships, said that Facebook wants to support local journalists and newsrooms with their news gathering needs in the immediate future[Read More…]
Bihar: Rejected lover live streams suicide on Facebook, blames girl’s family in suicide note
In a bizarre yet shocking incident, a man after denied mariage proposal from his lover’s relatives, committed suicide. What is more worse is that he live streamed his attempt to suicide. The young man identified as Gagan Singh who used to work as a compounder in the Garibawind Nursing Home,[Read More…]
“Virgin bride, why not?” Kolkata prof’s sexiest Facebook post goes viral, then deletes it
In an eye shunning Facebook post, Kanak Sarkar, a professor at the prestigious Jadavpur University in Kolkata, wrote several controversial comments on women’s virginity. In the post, titled “Virgin Bride – Why Not? (Value Oriented Social Counselling for Educated Youth), Sarkar compared a virgin girl to a sealed bottle or packet.[Read More…]
Pak agent ‘honey traps’ 50 Army Jawans; Soldier arrested for sharing sensitive information on social media
An Indian Army soldier posted in Jaisalmer was arrested by Rajasthan police after Military Intelligence (MI) discovered he was virtually honey trapped by Pakistan-based ISI operatives on social media and passing critical military information to them. As per the many local reports, a Pakistan-based Facebook ID with an Indian name is suspected to have[Read More…]
Apple hires Facebook critic on its privacy team: Report
San Francisco, Apple has reportedly hired a former Facebook employee — who testified before the British Parliament on the social media giant’s data-sharing policies during the Cambridge Analytica scandal — as product manager on its privacy team. According to a report in the Financial Times on Wednesday, the iPhone maker[Read More…]
Vietnam accuses Facebook of violating new cybersecurity law
Hanoi, The Vietnamese government has accused Facebook of violating a new cybersecurity law by allowing publications that are critical of the country’s communist regime and failing to comply with its tax obligations, the state media reported on Wednesday. “Facebook had reportedly not responded to a request to remove fan pages[Read More…]
Facebook staring at bigger problems this year, warns analyst
San Francisco: Already mired in controversies, social networking giant Facebook should brace itself for another tough year as its revenue growth faces risk due to increased scrutiny of the platform’s usage by marketers, according to Pivotal Research analyst Brian Wieser. In a note published in MediaVillage on Monday, Wieser maintained[Read More…]
Facebook tracks even those Android users who don’t have the app: Study
London, Making things worse for Facebook, which is already mired in controversies surrounding data leaks of tens of millions of its users, a new research has found that the social media giant tracks even those Android users who do not use the app. Facebook routinely tracks users, non users and[Read More…]
People buying boats on Facebook to reach Britain illegally: Report
London, Smugglers and migrants are using Facebook to buy boats for crossing the Channel from the French port city of Calais to come to Britain, The Telegraph reported. The Facebook “Marketplace” has been favoured by groups of Iranians and Iraqis intent on organising their own Channel crossings, because they can[Read More…]
Facebook has multi-year plans to overhaul its systems, says CEO Mark Zuckerberg
San Francisco, Saying goodbye to one of his toughest years filled with several controversies, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he is “proud” of the progress in 2018 and the company has now established multi-year plans to overhaul its systems and is executing those roadmaps. In a year-end note on Friday,[Read More…]
Not moderating content based on ‘inaccurate’ information: Facebook
San Francisco, Facebook has dismissed media reports claiming that thousands of its content moderators rely on inaccurate and disorganised information to determine what content to allow or remove from its platform. Reacting to a report in The New York Times that accused Facebook of being “ad hoc”, “disorganized”, “secretive”, and[Read More…]
Social media platform ‘Facebook’ down due to technical snag
Widely used social media platform ‘Facebook’ is not working due to some technical snag. When the user visits the official account, the web page displays a message which reads: “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can.” According to DownDetector,[Read More…]
Facebook halts feature meant to minimise toxic content: Report
San Francisco, Fearing a conservative backlash, Facebook has reportedly shelved a feature intended to encourage more civil discussion among users of opposing political beliefs. Joel Kaplan, Facebook’s Global Head of Policy, flagged that the project — known as “Common Ground” — could lead to accusations that the site was biased[Read More…]
Facebook again defends sharing users’ information with third parties
San Francisco, Facebook has once again reiterated that it never allowed its partners to access private messages without a user’s permission. In a new blog post, Facebook Vice President of Product Partnerships Ime Archibong said late on Wednesday that the social networking giant worked closely with four partners to integrate[Read More…]
Facebook sued over Cambridge Analytica data scandal
Washington: Washington DC’s top prosecutor is suing Facebook in the first significant US move to punish the firm for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine filed the lawsuit on Wednesday, said the Washington Post. It accused Facebook of allowing the wholesale scraping[Read More…]
Top Indian-origin executive to head Workplace by Facebook
San Francisco, Facebook has elevated its senior Indian-origin executive Karandeep Anand to head Workplace, the company’s two-year-old enterprise communication tool. Anand, who was earlier Head of Product for Facebook Marketplace and Payments services, would handle the Workplace product team and report to Julien Codorniou who is its Vice President. “I’m[Read More…]
6.8 million users possibly affected by latest photo bug: Facebook
San Francisco, US top social media network Facebook admitted that about 6.8 million users may risk their private photos being exposed to third-party apps. The company on Friday said more than 1,500 apps built by 876 developers may have also been affected by the bug that exposed users’ unshared photos[Read More…]