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Kothagudem: A journalist’s initiative has given a much-needed leg-up to an impoverished family, which had no means to pull through. Mariganti Manasa lost her husband Murali Krishnama Charyulu, a priest, 20 days ago and he was only the family’s breadwinner. She lives at Lakshminagaram in Dummugudem mandal in the district along with her 16-year-old son. […]
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San Francisco/New Delhi: In a startling revelation, a group of Meta engineers has reportedly identified a “massive ranking failure” that exposed nearly half of all Facebook News Feed views to potential “integrity risks”. According to a report in The Verge citing an internal Meta report on the incident, the software bug exposed the Facebook News […]
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Hyderabad: A complaint was lodged with the Rachakonda Cybercrime police against unidentified persons for posting derogatory comments against Chief Minister K.Chandrashekhar Rao on social media. The complainant, V Ram Narasimha Goud, in his complaint alleged that comments were being made from a fake ID named ‘Chalo Delhi’ on Facebook. Based on the complaint, the Cybercrime […]
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Hyderabad: A city-based man was duped of Rs.40 lakh by cyber fraudsters on a matrimony site. The victim came in contact with a woman on the website and befriended her. She told him she was settled in Europe and would soon be visiting India when they would be marrying. The woman, through WhatsApp and Facebook […]
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Several Facebook users took to Twitter, complaining about the spam-like notification in an email titled "Your account requires advanced security from Facebook Protect", which they did not open due to privacy concerns.
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Cowan operated a website that provided fake reviews and feedback to businesses in order to artificially increase their Customer Feedback Score.
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New Delhi: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi attacked social media giant Facebook on Wednesday and alleged that it was “worse for democracy”. Gandhi shared a compilation of news reports on Twitter, accusing the social media giant of helping the BJP reach out to voters during the elections. “Meta-worse for democracy,” Gandhi said on Twitter. He […]
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San Francisco: Meta-owned Facebook has added new features for Groups admins to curb the amount of misinformation shared among group members. The company said that they have added more features for Facebook group admins — such as the ability to automatically decline incoming posts that have been identified as containing false information by third-party fact-checkers. […]
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Facebook and Instagram have instituted a temporary change in policy that allows users in some countries to post content that's usually forbidden.
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As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine we have temporarily made allowances for forms of political expression that would normally violate our rules like violent speech such as 'death to the Russian invaders.
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Meta said that due to the difficulties of operating in Russia at this time, ads targeting people in Russia will be paused, and "advertisers within Russia will no longer be able to create or run ads anywhere in the world, including within Russia".
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According to Engadget, Meta's president of Global Affairs Nick Clegg said the company was making Russian state media "harder to find" on Facebook and Instagram.
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Nick Clegg, vice president of global affairs at Meta, said in a tweet thread early on Monday that the company has been in contact with the Government of Ukraine.
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Nick Clegg, Global Affairs VP at Meta, tweeted that ordinary Russians are using Meta's apps to express themselves and organize for action.
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Kabul: The US Central Command (Centcom) chief Gen Kenneth McKenzie on Thursday expressed concerns about the presence of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Afghanistan. In an interview shared on Facebook by the US Central Command – Dari/Pashto, McKenzie said that America is still “sorting out what is going to happen” since the Taliban came into […]
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Hyderabad: Cryptocurrency is the current rage for many wannabe investors and that is where a group of friends, who pooled in Rs.16 lakh, lost their money. According to the police, one of the victims came in contact with a person on Facebook, who told him about investing in crypto currency trade and suggested him to […]
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In 'doxing,' previously private information is made public in order to shame or harm the victim.
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Hyderabad: Latching on to the new wave, four startups are trying out their luck with live commerce, which is taking the shopping experience inside a social channel such as Instagram, Facebook, TikTok without the customers having to leave the platform. The adoption of live commerce, also known as social commerce, is getting accelerated due to […]
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New Delhi: Apple iOS privacy changes will cost Meta (formerly Facebook) a whopping $10 billion in 2022, the company has forecast, accusing Apple of favouring Google over app-based platforms like Facebook with its privacy policies. In an earnings call with analysts late on Wednesday, Meta CFO David Wehner said that they saw revenue impact with […]
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The Meta-owned Facebook platform registered 1.929 billion daily users in the fourth quarter of 2021 -- from 1.93 billion in the previous quarter.
