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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.
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New Delhi: Tech giants such as Google and Facebook will be required to pay newspapers and other media outlets for using their stories, under new laws being drawn up by the UK Government, Daily Mail reported. Under the plans, which are modelled on a system that has been introduced in Australia, the platforms will be […]
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Karimnagar: The Karimnagar police arrested former Maoist Aanem Chandra Rao for influencing youngsters to join CPI (Maoist) after befriending them through social media platforms such as Facebook and WhatsApp. Chander Rao, who is running a Marxist-Leninist Study Center (MLSC) on Facebook used to influence youth towards Maoist, police said. The case of Chander Rao came […]
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Bengaluru: A 25-year-old student has accused Bengaluru police of inaction over her complaint of rape. She has alleged that police are not arresting her Facebook friend who raped her as he is a man of influence, even six days after lodging a complaint. The victim, a fashion designing graduate, had lodged a police complaint with […]
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Workplace, Facebook's collaboration tool for businesses has gained more than seven million paid enterprise users.
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Hyderabad: Controversial Bangladeshi-Swedish writer Taslima Nasreen found herself in a rather exasperating situation on Tuesday when Facebook ‘memorialised’ her account, apparently believing that she is no more. A memorialized account on Facebook means, the person who started the account is dead and the ‘memorialized account’ is a place for friends and family to gather and […]
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San Francisco: After Meta (formerly Facebook), Apple now requires employees to get a Covid booster shot and submit a proof of vaccination before entering office premises and its own retail stores, the media reported. In an internal email seen by The Verge, the iPhone maker said that once an employee is eligible to get a […]
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Patna: An area manager at a private firm here in Danapur locality has approached the Patna Police cyber cell with a complaint alleging that he was honey-trapped by a girl on Facebook. The girl, who initially offered to establish friendship with the victim, turned nude during a video chat and recorded the conversation. Later she […]
