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The CAIT will not allow any corporate or conglomerate to enforce its 'obnoxious policies and sinister designs' to make profit in an unethical manner by firing...
The company has also introduced a new text-based Q&A format to support interactive conversations.
Twitter Inc also restricted users from retweeting the video “due to a risk of violence,”
The protests by farmers camping at the borders of the national capital entered the 25th day on Sunday.
The platform being used the most by Indian users who want to keep their identities anonymous are Facebook (76 per cent), YouTube (60 per cent), Instagram...
“These U.S. workers were denied an opportunity to be considered for the jobs Facebook sought to channel to temporary visa holders,” it said.
The coalition said it was “alarmed by the scope of Pakistan’s new law targeting internet companies, as well as the government’s opaque process by which these...
WhatsApp regularly updates the app to make the platform a defacto mode of communication.
New Delhi: A day after the resignation of Facebook India’s controversial public policy head Ankhi Das, the Congress on Wednesday welcomed the change in Facebook India’s...
In opening statements, Dorsey, Zuckerberg and Pichai spoke to the proposals for changes to Section 230. Zuckerberg said Congress "should update the law to make sure...
Police officers in Rawalpindi have been banned from posting on the short video-making app, TikTok, after a video went viral, the media reported on Tuesday
You’ve now installed Dark Mode on your Chrome OS. Again, do note that the feature is still in its early stages of development so do expect...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s prime minister has written a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seeking a ban on Islamophobic content on the site, warning of an increase...
US President Donald Trump has slammed Facebook and Twitter for restricting the distribution of a New York Post article criticizing Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden
On Mental Health Day on Saturday, Instagram launched a 'The Real Talk' content series in partnership with the Under25 community and The Artidote.
Social networking site Facebook has deleted a post in which US President Donald Trump had claimed Covid-19 was less lethal than the flu.
Supreme Court issued notice on Facebook India’s VP and MD, Ajit Mohan and directed that no coercive action will be taken against him till 15 October,...
San Francisco, Sep 22 : Facebook is bracing for tough measures to restrict content in case the November elections in the US descend into chaos or...
New Delhi, Sep 18 : Instagram users, including from the US, the UK, Middle East and India, took to Twitter on Friday to report problems while...
The PIO used to ask him to send contacts of other serving personnel in Jaipur and Bikaner, details of units moving in or out of Jaipur,...
The company has announced a new research partnership to better understand the impact of Facebook and Instagram on key political attitudes and behaviours during the US...
San Francisco, Sep 5: Facebook is reportedly testing a new feature that gives users the option to view Instagram Stories from within Facebook, thereby removing the...
Attorney for founder Joey Gibson considering legal action
A day after Facebook India head Ajit Mohan was grilled by a parliamentary panel, the social media giant has responded to letters written by the Congress...
Facebook on Thursday banned BJP MLA from Hyderabad, T. Raja Singh, who is at the centre of a controversy that erupted after a report in ‘Wall...
Chowdhury said that the article states how Das boasted that she successfully lobbied with the BJP to include Facebook's priorities in their election manifesto and 'now...
Facebook said it is investing in several areas as it works to improve the subscriber account linking tool.
The Facebook Reality Labs is building the entire stack, including hardware and software, so privacy is baked into its design process from the beginning, Facebook said.
Facebook this month blocked a bid by Gambia, which brought the genocide case against Myanmar at the ICJ, to obtain posts and communications by members of...
The rights groups requested that Facebook provide financial support for services and activities in the refugee camps such as arranging education and training for young people...
Parliamentary Panel on IT summoned representatives of Facebook to appear before the committee on September 2 to discuss prevention of misuse of online news media platforms.
New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) The ongoing battle between the Congress and the BJP over the facebook row took a new turn on Thursday with former Union...
A Twitter duel had erupted between Mr. Dubey and Opposition MPs Tharoor and Mahua Moitra (TMC) over the prospect of the panel seeking views of Facebook...
London, Aug 17 : Facebook’s algorithm actively recommends Holocaust denial content, according to a new analysis released on Monday by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD),...
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday claimed that it has many times tried to raise the issue of content manipulation with social media platforms Facebook and...
Facebook on Monday launched the Educator Hub to help teachers find or build their online community and discover resources for the classroom and beyond as schools...
New Delhi, Aug 17 : Amid the controversy on social media platform Facebook and WhatsApp, the Standing Committee on Information and technology will examine the Facebook...
When caning and tear gas failed to control the mob from attacking the police station, police fired shots, in which three area youths died.
Facebook on Tuesday said that it purged 22.5 million pieces of hate speech content in the second quarter (April-June) this year, increased from 9.6 million pieces...
Similar to TikTok, Reels users can record short mobile-friendly vertical videos, then add special effects and soundtracks pulled from a music library.
"This virus has a cure, it's called hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and Zithromax. You don't need masks, there is a cure," claimed the video.
San Francisco, June 27 (IANS) As more advertisers pull out of its platform over poor handling of hate speech and misinformation, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said...
San Francisco, As more and more advertisers decide to quit Facebook over the spread of misinformation and hate speech on its platform, the social network has...
In a setback to Facebook, Germany”s Federal Court of Justice upheld the position of the country”s antitrust regulator and ruled that the social networking giant needs...
"It''s an added layer of privacy to prevent someone else from accessing your messages," a Facebook spokesperson was quoted as saying.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is facing rare public outrage from his employees as they rebuked him on a real-time feedback tool over inaction on incendiary remarks...
The company said that IDs will be stored securely and won't be shared on the person's profile.
People can create a room right from Messenger or Facebook, and invite anyone to join the video call, even if they don't have a Facebook account.
Rooms will only be available for Private Online Events, and there is a limit of 50 people who can join the Room.
According to Zuckerberg, some of these will be organized as virtual events instead.
Mukesh Ambani said that in the very near future, JioMart and Whatsapp will empower nearly 3 crore small Indian Kirana shops to digitally transact with every...
San Francisco, April 30 (IANS) Facebook has issued 40 million warning labels across its services related to fake content around COVID-19, Its CEO Mark Zuckerberg has...
New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) The Broadband India Forum (BIF), here on Monday, dismissed concerns over violation of net neutrality and data protection norms after Facebook’s...
New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) Facebook-owned WhatsApp which earlier thin month introduced a limit on frequently forwarded messages to one chat at a time has seen...
Facebook has even blamed Apple's operating system for the hacking of Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos' phone.
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) Mark Zuckerberg-run Facebook has interestingly chosen India to begin its global ecommerce journey with investing $5.7 billion (approx. Rs 43,574 crore)...
San Francisco, April 20 (IANS) Using aggregated public data from a survey conducted by Carnegie Mellon University, Facebook on Monday released its first county-by-county map of the...
Thiruvananthapuram, April 11 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan here on Saturday took to Facebook to express condolences after hearing the death of a young male nurse...
New Delhi, March 27 (IANS) Social media giant Facebook on Friday launched Messenger Chatbot with Health Ministry and MyGov in India to raise awareness around CIDIC-19...
The BJP leaders are also posting videos of their hidden talent. Shahnawaz Hussain posted a video of his singing on bollywood numbers, While Kailash Vijayvargiya cooked...
Seattle, March 19 (IANS) When it comes to fake news on social media platforms, some users outright ignore it, some take it at face value, some...
San Francisco, March 18 Facebook is giving $1,000 as bonus to each of its 45,000 employees to support them with liquid cash amid the COVID-19 pandemic....
San Francisco/London: Panic gripped big tech firms like Facebook and Twitter which decided to close their offices from Seattle to London as more employees tested positive...
Seattle, March 5 (IANS) Facebook has shut its Seattle office until March 9 after one of its contractors tested positive for COVID-19, suggesting all its employees...
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) Facebook has revealed that it removed a network of 37 Facebook accounts, 32 Pages, 11 Groups and 42 Instagram accounts that...
New York, Feb 21 (IANS) A video posted by Michael Bloomberg, the aspirant for the Democratic Party’s nomination for President, has left Facebook and Twitter divided...
New York, Estrangement has become harder in the digital age and social media platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram, can make break-ups much worse, say researchers. People...
Tesla founder has always been a critic of Facebook in his tweets. Back in 2018 he said that he does not use the social media site.
San Francisco, Jan 22 Telecom major Vodafone has joined the list of top companies which have backed out from Facebook’s controversial Libra cryptocurrency project. Vodafone joins...
San Francisco: Vodafone has become the latest big player who have decided to quit Facebook’s controversial Libra cryptocurrency project. Vodafone joins PayPal, Mastercard, Visa, Mercado Pago,...
San Francisco, Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp for Android has now notched up a staggering five billion downloads, making it only the second non-Google app to achieve this...
San Francisco: Pitching once again for breaking up Facebook and regulating it, software giant Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has reiterated that the social networking platform is...
New Delhi, After the recent arrest of seven navy personnel for allegedly leaking sensitive information to an espionage racket with links to Pakistan, the Indian Navy...
San Francisco: Fake ads on Facebook are spreading rumours about the ill-effect of anti-HIV drugs, targeting LGBTQ Facebook and Instagram users and are causing significant harm to...
San Francisco: Facebook’s video calling device Portal will now work with just a WhatsApp account, allowing users to make video calls to friends and family and access...
London: The BBC has asked the Conservative Party to remove a Facebook advertisement that uses edited footage of its news reporters and presenters saying sentences like...
Hyderabad: Facebook and T-Hub, a Hyderabad-based global start-up catalyst, on Tuesday announced the completion of the second edition of their India Innovation Accelerator programme with 10...
San Francisco: Sense seems to be prevailing at Facebook and the social networking giant is willing to make some changes in its political ad policies to...
San Francisco, Nov 13 Facebook has launched a new payments system that will work across its app ecosystem — Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp. Appropriately named...
Sydney, Nov 12 : Parents, take note. If you want your children to score good grades in exams, tell them to quit social media as researchers...
San Francisco: Facebook has apologized after current and former employees went on to social media and detailed several racist incidents against black, Hispanic and female Asian employees...
San Francisco: Facebook and Google-owned YouTube have banned content on their platform that purports to name the whistleblower whose complaint led to the impeachment inquiry against US...
New York: You can’t trust yourself to discern what’s true and what’s not when you’re on Facebook as researchers have found that ‘Fake news’ is not...
San Francisco, Nov 6 In yet another data breach, Facebook on Wednesday revealed that at least 100 app developers may have accessed Facebook users’ data for...
New Delhi, Oct 31: Facebook-owned WhatsApp on Thursday said Indian journalists and human rights activists were among those globally spied upon by unnamed entities using an...
New Delhi, Oct 31 Facebook on Thursday announced a collaboration with SAIF Partners, one of the leading venture capital funds, to enable the growth of small...
The social networking giant had initially appealed the penalty. The ICO then pursued its own counter-appeal.
New Delhi, Oct 21 Facebook on Monday activated its election notification feature for India, requesting people to go out and vote for their candidates in the...
San Francisco: A court in the US has denied Facebook’s request to quash $35 billion class-action lawsuit against its alleged misuse of facial recognition data in...
San Francisco: Pitching for breaking up Facebook, US-based software giant Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has called the social networking platform “new cigarettes” which are making kids addictive....
London, Oct 6 Facebook, which has made mistakes in handling user data, is working towards sanitizing its platform, but cannot be doing the job of policing...
Thiruvananthapuram: Social media major Facebook is gearing up to make substantial investments in technology start-ups in India, a top official from the company said here on...
San Francisco, Sep 21 Facebook has announced it will soon shut down its group stories feature which allows administrators and members of the social media’s groups...
Washington, Sep 20 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has rejected a US lawmaker’s call to break his company, saying he’s not going to sell WhatsApp or Instagram...
San Francisco, Sep 18 Facebook removed more than 26 million pieces of content related to global terrorist groups like Islamic State (IS) and Al Qaeda in...
Even the Rs 1 lakh award on his head, announced by the Haryana Police, didn't deter him.
Jammu, Aug 29 The Jammu and Kashmir police has booked five persons, all residents of Rajouri and Poonch districts, for posting “sensitive remarks” on Facebook that...
New Delhi, Aug 25 : The Indian entertainment scene is witnessing a seismic change with 30 over-the-top (OTT) platforms vying for space as players look to...
San Francisco: Facebook has banned conservative news outlet and US President Donald Trump supporter The Epoch Times from buying ads on its platform for violating its policies....
San Francisco, Aug 14: In yet another setback for the social networking giant’s Virtual Reality (VR) dream, Nate Mitchell, Co-founder of Facebook-acquired VR firm Oculus has stepped...
New Delhi, Aug 11 A 27-year-old DMRC staffer on Sunday committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan hook with a plastic rope. The entire...
San Francisco, July 31 Facebook is developing a brain-computer Augmented Reality (AR) interface device that would help users type with their mind. At its F8 Developers’...
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) Facebook-owned WhatsApp which is planning to launch its peer-to-peer, UPI-based Pay service in India later this year has nearly 400 million...
Washington, July 24 : As US government regulators act tough on tech giants over privacy violations and anti-trust activities, Amazon and Facebook spent the maximum in...
New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) Chasing 15 seconds of fame, millions of Indians are hooked to TikTok and the success of the Chinese short video-sharing app...
San Francisco, July 16 Facebook is not going to launch its digital coin Libra unless regulators are fully satisfied and all necessary approvals are in place....
Since 2014, Facebook has increased the number of Black women at Facebook by 25 times and the number of Black men by 10 times.
Washington, July 8 (IANS) The White House has reportedly ditched Facebook and Twitter for its Social Media Summit slated to be organized on Thursday because President...
San Francisco: Joining the chorus against social media giants and their growing power, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has slammed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and micro-blogging platform Twitter....
New Delhi, July 5: India is among the top five countries that tweet the most about Bitcoin and Facebook’s upcoming “Libra” cryptocurrency. The US leads in...
New Delhi, July 4 Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram were back in action on Thursday morning after affecting millions of users across its platforms globally, including in...
London, July 2 Germany on Tuesday slapped $2.3 million fine on Facebook’s Irish subsidiary for under-reporting illegal content complaints it received last year. According to BT.com,...
New Delhi, July 1 : The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to West Bengal Government on a contempt plea filed by brother of BJP Youth...
San Francisco, June 26 Facebook-owned mobile Messaging service WhatsApp would no longer support devices using the Android 2.3.7 operating system and iPhones using iOS 7 after...
He slumped over at his desk on March 9 last year. Co-workers noticed that he was in distress when he began sliding out of his chair.
San Francisco, June 18 Amid intense calls to break it down as the company has grown too big, Facebook on Tuesday announced its own digital wallet...
Canberra, June 18 Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp is working with Australian authorities to help locate a missing Belgian backpacker who disappeared in May, officials said on...
Facing an anti-trust probe from the US government, Google CEO Sundar Pichai has cautioned against those who may want to regulate the tech giants “for the...
Menlo Park (California), June 14 Facebook is expanding money spinning ad breaks to Marathi, Punjabi, Kannada and Telugu as it was available only in select languages...
New Delhi, June 13 In its first-ever equity investment in an Indian start-up, Facebook on Thursday announced an investment in Meesho, a platform that enables Indian...
San Francisco, June 11 Social networking giant Facebook is set to launch updated version of its video chat device ‘Portal’ later in 2019. Andrew Bosworth, Vice...
Washington, June 10 Tech giant Google spent $21.7 million on lobbying efforts last year to influence lawmakers as the government and regulators sought great scrutiny from...
Tokyo, June 8 The Finance Ministers of the G20 member nations on Saturday called for the creation of a digital tax for multinational technology companies, the...
London, May 24 (IANS) Facebook, which owns WhatsApp and Instagram, is gearing up to launch its own cryptocurrency next year, the BBC reported on Friday. Called...
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Companies in India claiming that they can help people send bulk messages on WhatsApp must cease operations, the Facebook-owned messaging app...
San Francisco, May 10: Facebook on Thursday launched a new feature on its Stories feature that will help users add digital birthday cards, photos or videos...
New York, May 9 : It is time to break up Facebook — mired in several data scandals and privacy violation cases — as Mark Zuckerberg...
London, May 8: Before it launches WhatsApp Pay in India, Facebook has selected London as the base for the global roll-out of its digital payments service...
London, May 7: While social media use has a limited role in lowering the life satisfaction of teenagers, the effects are more among girls than boys,...
San Francisco, May 4: Facebook has decided to shut down a clone of the main Group video chat app called “Houseparty”, which is a virtual hangout...
San Francisco, May 4: Facebook is working hard to launch its own bitcoin for cryptocurrency-based payments on its platform that has 2.38 billion users. According to...
San Francisco, May 3: Facebook and its photo-messaging service Instagram have banned several right-wing extremists, including Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who’s notorious for using...
New Delhi, April 28 : A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking direction to the government of India to ascertain...
San Francisco, April 27: In order to “protect the integrity” of its platform, social networking giant Facebook has sued a New Zealand based fraud company that...
Francisco, April 26: Three countries have opened fresh rounds of investigations against Facebook for users’ privacy violations and security lapses. New York Attorney General Letitia James...
San Francisco, April 25 (IANS) Social media giant Facebook’s monthly active users (MAUs) grew 8 per cent year-over-year MAUs to reach 2.38 billion at the end...
San Francisco, April 23: Social networking giant Facebook has announced its first major API contribution to Googles Chrome browser that is focused on making user experience...
San Francisco, April 20 : To channelise user-focus on sharing better and sensible content on its platform, Facebook-owned photo-messaging app Instagram is planning on hiding the...
San Francisco, April 20: Despite Facebook’s claim that the livestreaming video of the March 15 Christchurch shooting that killed 50 people was removed from its platforms,...
San Francisco, April 14 (IANS) Facebook has yet again come under critical observation in India after its instant messaging app WhatsApp with 300 million users in...
Facebook is set to launch two new VR products -- the $399 standalone Oculus VR system and the $399 PC-tethered Oculus Rift S.
San Francisco, April 10: Facebook-owned photo-messaging app WhatsApp has introduced its “audio picker” with a new user interface (UI), allowing users to choose a total of...
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...
New Delhi, April 8: With the first phase of Lok Sabha polls just days away, Facebook on Monday said it is removing or blocking about one...
New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) Facebook that has created a mini-storm in the Indian political corridors by revealing it removed fake Pages, Groups and accounts linked...
San Francisco, April 2: In a bid to curb the menance of fake news and improve quality of content on its platform, Facebook may appoint a...
New Delhi, April 1: The Congress on Monday denied the claims made by social media major Facebook and said it will check the veracity of the...
New Delhi, April 1: In a startling revelation ahead of general elections, Facebook on Monday announced it has removed 687 spam Facebook Pages and accounts connected...
San Francisco, March 30: Witnessing flak after the New Zealand terror attack that was livestreamed on its platform, the social media major is now exploring restrictions...
Wellington, March 28 (IANS) New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday that Facebook needed to do a lot more to curb hate propaganda after...
New Delhi, March 27: As experts demand Facebook-owned WhatsApp to disclose information about where a message in question has originated from, the company has reiterated that...
San Francisco, March 27: Facebook has shut down thousands of Pages, Groups and accounts that were engaged in coordinated inauthentic behaviour from Iran, Russia, Macedonia and...
New Delhi, March 24 The first phase of voting begins from April 11 and WhatsApp – and not its parent company Facebook – has turned out...
San Francisco, March 22 (IANS) Facebook-owned WhatsApp Business, a free-to-download communication tool specifically designed for small businesses, is now available for iOS users. Announced back in...
New Delhi, March 20 : Despite all the efforts put in place by social media companies to show who is paying for the political advertisements on...
San Francisco, March 20 : In a bid to avoid discrimination in ads related to housing, jobs and credits, Facebook has announced new changes where anyone...
San Francisco, March 15 : Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp has submitted the beta version of its next update that supports an in-app browser, a feature which...
New Delhi, March 14: Facebook ruled out a cyber attack on its products Whatsapp, Instagram and Messenger, which suffered service outage for hours on Wednesday. Users...
New Delhi, March 13: The Election Commission on Tuesday directed social media platform Facebook to remove two political posters with IAF pilot Abhinandan Vardhman’s photograph which...
New Delhi, March 12: With social media turning out to be a major battleground for political parties in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Twitter has started...
New Delhi, March 11 There are over 30 crore monthly active users on Facebook and more than 20 crore on WhatsApp in India. Even the Narendra...
New Delhi, March 7: Advertisers in India spent over Rs 4 crore for political ads on Facebook last month and more than half of the amount...
San Francisco, Feb 19: Social networking giant Facebook has been accused of revealing sensitive health data of users in its groups. “Facebook has marketed this product...
Guwahati, Feb 17: A college teacher was suspended here for a Facebook post over the February 14 suicide attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama that claimed...
San Francisco, Feb 16: Facebook has again courted controversy with a search function that allows users to scout for photographs of female, but not male friends,...
New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) With the general elections just months away in India, Facebook on Monday added five new partners including the India Today Group...
Facebook requires those who opt for the "Published by" label to go through another level of authentication to ensure the entity/organisation cited is authentic.
San Francisco, Feb 5: Stressing that it is determined to do more to keep people safe across its services, Facebook said it has identified some key...
New Delhi, Jan 28 : Nearly 8,000 Facebook users die daily. By the end of this century, Facebook will become the worlds biggest virtual graveyard as...
San Francisco, Jan 26 (IANS) Facebook is currently working towards integrating its chat services — WhatsApp, Messenger, and photo-sharing app Instagram — to let their users...
New York, Jan 22: It does not matter if you are on Facebook or not – or have just deleted your social media presence. Your friends...
Moscow, Jan 22: Accusing Facebook and Twitter of defying the law of the land, the Russian government has opened legal proceedings against the social media giants...
New Delhi, Jan 21: In a bid to curb fake news, Facebook-owned platform WhatsApp on Monday announced it has globally lowered to five the forward limit...
Washington, Jan 19: Facebook is facing a “record-setting” fine from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over its handling of user data and privacy violations. According...
San Francisco, Jan 18: A Facebook engineering manager who resigned from her post this month has alleged harassment at the workplace after she criticised the social...
San Francisco, Jan 15: Facebook is testing a new feature to let users share events that they are interesting in attending to, on their “Stories” so...
San Francisco, Jan 12: Facebook considered selling users’ data to companies some years ago but later decided to act against it, the media reported. According to...
A 30-year-old woman attempted to commit suicide while live-streaming the act on social media platform Facebook. The police acted promptly in and saved the life of...
San Francisco, Jan 1: While Facebook still maintains a double-digit growth in advertisement revenue in the US, the rate of that growth slowed down in the...
San Francisco, Dec 30 : After being accused of censoring free speech, Facebook has apologised for banning a Christian evangelist in the US . Evangelist Franklin...
San Francisco, Dec 29: Facebook has dismissed media reports claiming that thousands of its content moderators rely on inaccurate and disorganised information to determine what content...
San Francisco, Dec 28: The moderators at Facebook who carry out the critical task of removing dangerous content from its platform rely on material based on...
The speed at which global technology giants changed the way people lead their lives — the way they talk to each other or conduct businesses —...
New York, Dec 20: When it comes to quitting Facebook, users will need $1,000 (nearly Rs 70,000) on average to deactivate their accounts for one year,...
San Francisco, Dec 20: Facebook has once again reiterated that it never allowed its partners to access private messages without a user’s permission. In a new...
San Francisco, Dec 18: In a bid to reform a European Union tax law not bringing the desired results, France is going to introduce from January 1,...
Tel Aviv, Dec 17: Facebook temporarily banned Yair Netanyahu, son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for posting anti-Muslim posts, the media reported on Monday. According...
San Francisco, Dec 15: US top social media network Facebook admitted that about 6.8 million users may risk their private photos being exposed to third-party apps....
San Francisco, Dec 14: Facebook has dismissed a media report that claimed journalists working as factcheckers for the social media giant are frustrated and are ending partnerships...
London, Dec 8: Italian regulators have fined Facebook 10 million euros for selling users’ data without informing them. The competition watchdog handed Facebook two fines totalling 10...
New Delhi, Dec 7: Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in India, social media giant Facebook has announced fresh steps to increase ad transparency and defend...
Kerala, Nov 27: Woman activist Rehana Fathima, who had tried to enter the Sabarimala Temple, has been arrested on Tuesday by the Pathanamthitta Police. The police...
New Delhi, Nov 24: To help small businesses in India reach the global economy, Facebook is planning to train five million people with digital skills in three...
San Francisco, Nov 24: After attending grilling sessions this year with lawmakers over data breaches and failure to tackle political interference, Facebook is again set to...
Nov 22 : Human rights activists have slammed social networking giant Facebook for failing to remove a post in which a South Sudanese man auctioned his...
New Delhi, Nov 16: Facebook has recorded 16,580 data requests from the Indian government in the first six months of 2018 — a steep rise compared to...
San Francisco, Nov 14: The Facebook crackdown on accounts engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” on its platform and on Instagram continues. “Combined with our takedown last Monday,...
New Delhi, Nov 12 : Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba on Monday held a meeting with Twitter officials, asking the micro-blogging site to take prompt action...
Ahead of the 2019 general elections in India, Facebook was teaming up with global news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) to do fact checking, Khanduri said.
London, Nov 11 : Facebook is encouraging grooming by offering teenage girls middle-aged men as ‘friend suggestions’, the media reported. Teenage girls, as young as 13-year-olds,...
San Francisco, Nov 9: Facebook has removed more than 14 million “pieces of terrorist content” on its platform till September this year that was related to the...
Earlier this year, Facebook established a dedicated team across product, engineering, and policy to work on issues specific to Myanmar.
New Delhi, Nov 6: Ahead of the US mid-term elections, social media giant Facebook has blocked 30 accounts on its platform and 85 accounts on Instagram. According to...
San Francisco, Nov 4 :Social networking giant Facebook has apologised after letting an ad campaign target its users interested in “White genocide conspiracy theory”even in the...
London, Nov 3: Hackers have gained access to private messages of nearly 120 million Facebook accounts and already published such messages from 81,000 accounts for generating money,...
San Francisco, Oct 31: Facebook reported $13.5 billion in revenue with a net income of $5.1 billion ($1.76 per share) in the third quarter that ended...
San Francisco, Oct 31 : Social networking giant Facebook is working towards expanding in the US state of Washington, setting up a sprawling office project right...
San Francisco, Oct 27: Facebook has removed 82 Pages, Groups and accounts for what it calls “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” that originated in Iran and targeted people in...
The UK's information commissioner imposed the fine for "serious breaches of data protection law".
San Francisco, Oct 25 : Facebook has said its Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies have helped remove 8.7 million pieces of child sexual...
Lucknow, Oct 18: A complaint has been registered in an Uttar Pradesh court against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and three others for using national symbols and...
New York, Oct 17: Language people use in their Facebook posts can predict a future diagnosis of depression as accurately as the tools clinicians use in medical...
San Francisco, Oct 13: Facebook could soon be rolling out the “Unsend” feature for Messenger that would allow users to retract sent messages not only from...
San Francisco, Oct 12: Facebook has removed 559 Pages and 251 accounts that consistently broke its rules against spam and coordinated inauthentic behaviour related to upcoming...
Spending excessive time over internet and social media is emerging as a leading cause for mental disorder among adolescents and youths, say medical experts. “It is...
New York, Oct 9: Human traffickers are exploiting social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram or SnapChat, as well as dating apps such as Tinder, Blendr and...
The past few weeks have witnessed some bizarre and never-before-seen occurrences in the world of technology, and the credit, if you want to call it that,...
San Francisco, Oct 8: Several Facebook users have reported their accounts were cloned after they received a duplicate friend request message asking them to forward the...
New Delhi, Oct 7 : IndiGo systems are down at Delhi’s IGI airport due to a technical error.Passengers of the airline are facing trouble as they ...
New Delhi, Oct 6: Facing the uphill task of tackling election-related interference on its platform as India gets ready for polls next year, Facebook on Saturday said...
San Francisco, Oct 6: Facebook is testing voice commands for chat and calls in its Messenger platform. According to a report in TechCrunch on Friday, the feature...
San Francisco, Oct 4 (IANS) Facebook has increased the account deletion grace period from 14 to 30 days, giving users more time to decide and revive...
San Francisco, Oct 4: Apple displaced Google to become the top brand in the world in 2018 while Facebook, mired in data breach controversies, fell to...
San Francisco, Oct 3: Tendering a fresh apology in the data breach that affected 50 million users, Facebook has said that a detailed investigation found no...
San Francisco, Oct 2: Facebook has appointed Adam Mosseri, Vice President of Product, as new head of its photo-sharing app Instagram. Mosseri replaces Instagram co-founders Kevin...
Washington, Oct 1: Embroiled in another massive data breach, Facebook may face $1.63 billion in fine from the European Union (EU) privacy watchdog, the media reported....
>Washington, Sep 29: After Facebook admitted that it was hit with a fresh data breach that affected nearly 50 million users, Senator Mark R. Warner (D-VA)...
San Francisco, Sep 28 : In the biggest-ever security breach after Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook on Friday admitted hackers broke into nearly 50 million users’ accounts...
San Francisco, Sep 28: Facebook has admitted that the phone numbers that its users provide for security purposes are being used to target them with ads, the...
Helsinki, Sep 28 : Former US President Barack Obama on Thursday warned about the problems in the society adapting to technological change. Addressing a business conference...
San Francisco, Sep 27: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has introduced a new virtual reality (VR) headset “Oculus Quest” that will be available from 2019, starting at $399...
San Francisco, Sep 25 : A former content moderator at Facebook has sued the company alleging that moderators who face mental trauma after reviewing distressing images...
New Delhi, Sep 24 : Adhunika Prakash, who founded non-profit Breastfeeding Support for Indian Moms in Pune, was on Monday selected among five global leaders for...
San Francisco, Sep 18: In order to further secure candidates and campaign staff vulnerable to hackers and nation-state actors during the elections, Facebook has introduced additional tools...
New Delhi, Sep 17: The CBI has written to UK-based Cambridge Analytica and Global Science Research (GSR) and US-based Facebook, seeking information in connection with its probe...
San Francisco, Sep 7: As governments the world over including in India aim to store data of their people within their boundaries, Facebook on Friday announced...
Washington, Sep 6 : Facebook and Twitter will now face questions from the Justice Department (DOJ) over allegations of political bias, an issue flagged by US...
San Francisco, Aug 29: Aiming to make its energy-guzzling data centres environment-friendly, Facebook has pledged it would power its global operations with 100 percent renewable energy...
San Francisco, Aug 29: US President Donald Trump warned to Google and social media giants Facebook and Twitter over the fake news, stating that these companies are...
San Francisco, Aug 27: Facebook is testing a feature that can point to the commonalities you have with other random users — whether you share a neighbourhood...
San Francisco, Aug 22: Social Media giant Facebook has deleted 652 fake accounts from its platform for “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” that originated in Iran and Russia...
San Francisco, Aug 16 : Facebook acknowledged that it has been “too slow” to prevent the spread of hate speech that resulted into ethnic violence in...
New Delhi, Aug 14 : Social media giant Facebook has bagged the media rights of Spain’s top-division football championship, La Liga, for the Indian subcontinent, both parties...
San Francisco, Aug 11: David Marcus, Facebook’s new Blockchain Research Head, has stepped down from the board of directors at cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, the media reported. According...
San Francisco, Aug 11: The world’s largest social media network Facebook on Friday took measures to make it more difficult to run fake or compromised accounts on...
San Francisco, Aug 10: Even as the world painfully takes notes of dangers of fake news spread on social media platforms, Facebook has said that it does...
San Francisco, Aug 3: With Facebook cutting off access to its API platform for hundreds of thousands of apps, Twitter users are no longer able to tweet...
San Francisco, Aug 3: Facebook has announced to invest an additional $4.5 million towards helping the news industry globally. The social media giant, that reported more...
San Francisco, Aug 2: Facebook’s Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos, who was a key figure in the fight against the spread of fake news and misinformation, on...
Los Angeles, Aug 1: Facebook announced on Tuesday that it eliminated 32 accounts for what the company described as “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” ahead of the mid-term US...
New Delhi, July 31: Facebook-owned WhatsApp on Tuesday rolled out its group calling feature — for both voice and video options — on iOS and Android devices...
Corporate gifting is back in business with a bang. This domain is witnessing accelerated growth at almost 150 percent each year. Customized mugs, calendars, pens and...
Washington, July 21: After the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Facebook has now suspended Boston-based data analytics company Crimson Hexagon over concerns that it harvested users’ data....
New Delhi, July 20: As the government served WhatsApp with a second notice asking it to check the spread of fake and provocative content, the Facebook-owned platform...
San Francisco, July 19: Accused of helping to spur violence in countries like Myanmar, Sri Lanka and India, Facebook has said it will begin removing misinformation that...
