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adminMay 25, 2021

Pages flagged by the BJP that are on the platform include the official accounts of the Bhim Army, satire site “We Hate BJP”, unofficial Congress-supporting pages, and a page called “The Truth of Gujarat” sharing mostly Alt News fact checks. NEW DELHI — Social media platform Facebook has been under serious scrutiny after the Wall […]

adminMay 25, 2021

In a bid to avoid discrimination in ads related to housing, jobs and credits, Facebook has announced new changes where anyone who wants to run such ads will no longer be allowed to target by age, gender or zip code. These changes are the result of settlement agreements with leading civil rights organisations and ongoing […]

adminMay 25, 2021

New York : More than 50 engineers at Facebook are reportedly busy giving shape to the social media giant’s own cryptocurrency and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is quite bullish on the project. Not only Facebook, highly-encrypted mobile communications apps Telegram and Signal are also on the job to roll out new cryptocurrencies over the next year, […]

adminMay 25, 2021

London : As the European Parliament election inch closer, the European Commission has claimed Facebook is withholding key data on its efforts towards how the platform is rooting out the spread of poll-related disinformation. According to a report in The Guardian on Thursday, the European Commission has complained that Facebook has set up fact checkers […]

adminMay 25, 2021

San Francisco : You may soon login to Facebook with Blockchain-based authentication, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has indicated. In a public interview with Harvard Law professor Jonathan Zittrain late on Wednesday, Zuckerberg said he is “potentially interested” in putting the Facebook login on the Blockchain technology. “I’m thinking about going back to decentralised or Blockchain authentication. […]

adminMay 25, 2021

Washington : Facebook is negotiating a multi-billion dollar fine with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over the social media giant’s past privacy practices. According to a report in The Washington Post on Thursday, the specific amount is yet to be determined but it would be the largest fine the FTC has ever levied on […]

adminMay 25, 2021

Moscow : Russian telecom watchdog Roskomnadzor has said that it will punish Twitter and Facebook if they decline to move the database of Russian users to Russia. “The companies will either have to localise the databases within a certain period of time, which I suppose will be about nine months, or they will be punished,” […]

adminMay 25, 2021

New Delhi : With the general elections just months away in India, Facebook on Monday added five new partners including the India Today Group to its third-party fact-checking programme aimed at reducing the spread of false news on its platform. With the addition of the new partners, Facebook has expanded the programme to three new […]

adminMay 25, 2021

San Francisco : Facebook will now incentivise its 36,000 employees on how they are contributing to social causes and helping the company tackle issues like spread of misinformation and hate speech on its platform. Going beyond metrics like user growth and product quality to decide on employee bonuses, the social media giant will now see […]

adminMay 25, 2021

San Francisco : Despite facing intense scrutiny over data privacy, Facebook stock rose 12 per cent after it logged a record revenue of $16.91 billion — up from $12.97 billion in the year-ago period — in the fourth quarter that ended December 31. The social media giant now has 2.32 billion monthly active users (MAUs) […]

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BJP Told Facebook to Remove 44 Rival Pages Before 2019 Polls: Report

Facebook to curb discrimination in housing, job ads

Facebook, Telegram working on their own cryptocurrencies

Facebook not sharing key disinformation data with EU: Report

Facebook interested in Blockchain-based authentication: Zuckerberg

Facebook negotiating multi-billion dollar fine with US agency: Report

Russia to direct Facebook, Twitter to localise users’ database

Facebook adds 5 new partners to fact-checking network in India

Bonus for Facebook employees aiding with social issues

With 2.32 bn users, Facebook earns record profits

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