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Social networking site Facebook, along with its family of apps including Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp, Mapillary, and Oculus, became globally unavailable for a period of six to seven hours on October 4, 2021, rendering inaccessible the services that the world’s largest social media network offers to billions of its users. What went wrong? Security experts […]
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According to a TechCrunch report, "Google has held discussions to invest over $50 million in Indian social commerce startup Meesho".
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San Francisco: Social media giant Facebook is reportedly planning to rebrand the company with a new name that focuses on the metaverse. According to a source with direct knowledge of the matter, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg is expected to announce the name at the company’s Connect conference on October 28, reports The Verge. As […]
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New Delhi: Snubbed by media reports over its inability to tackle hate speech, Facebook has now claimed that the prevalence of hate speech on its platform has dropped by almost 50 per cent in the last three quarters. In a reply, Guy Rosen, Vice-President of Integrity at Facebook, said that their technology is having a […]
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Hyderabad: Rachakonda police on Saturday urged men not to make half-naked video calls on WhatsApp with people they’ve met on Facebook or any other social media platform as a new scam that involves video calling has set foot in the town. The gang that is said to be targeting only men creates multiple fake […]
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Hyderabad: A man has approached the Banjara Hills police alleging a woman, with whom he became friends on Facebook, was threatening and blackmailing him. The 32-year-old complainant, a resident of Banjara Hills Road No.12, and working as an electrician had in July received a friend request from a profile with ‘Sakshi Varma’ as its name. […]
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Ever since a major outage hit WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram recently, many users started receiving audio or text messages saying that WhatsApp has been banned or that they will be charged for using the app in the future. It is also claimed that the instant messaging app is going to be restricted from 11:30 pm […]
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On Friday, some users were unable to load their Instagram feeds, while others were not able to send messages on Facebook Messenger.
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By Pramod K Nayar For a few hours, the global audience did not know what was going on. Literally. With Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram crashing, people discovered a lot of time on their hands. Ironically, the principal sources of disinformation – online and social media platforms – were themselves subjected to disinformation. In an era […]
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Canberra: Australia’s Prime Minister on Thursday described social media as a “coward’s palace” and warned that digital platforms including Facebook should be held liable for defamatory comments posted anonymously. Anonymous commentators who use social media to vilify and bully have become the latest battleground between Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s government and U.S. tech giants. The […]
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Hyderabad: A businessman, who got friendly with a woman he met on Facebook, lost about Rs.1.2 crore in what the police say was a classic honey trap. Three persons including a woman have been arrested in connection with the case. According to the Amberpet police, the three were arrested on charges of cheating a Guntur-based […]
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Washington: Facebook has said that the disruption of its operation was caused by configuration changes on backbone routers. Facebook, in a statement, said its service is now back online.“Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication. This […]
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New Delhi: Services of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp started coming back online on Tuesday after an outage that lasted almost six hours. The services went down at about 16:00 GMT with users beginning to gain access to the sites at around 22:00. “Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are coming back online now. Sorry for the […]
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Hyderabad: Social media apps WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram have been down since Monday evening. Much to the frustration of the users, these apps have been snagging whenever refreshed. It has been reported that users received a “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can,” message […]
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New York: US lawmakers blasted Facebook for three hours over the tech giant’s handling of internal research that showed how its Instagram photo sharing platform was wrecking teens and weaponising “children’s vulnerability”. Bombshell revelations in September first reported by The Wall Street Journal have set off alarm bells yet again around Facebook’s hold over young […]
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The company said the change could help the platform fight harmful behaviour it wouldn't otherwise be able to fully address under its existing rules, reports Engadget.
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San Francisco: At least 5.8 million high profile Facebook users have VIP pass that allows them to break rules without consequences, the media reported. According to The Wall Street Journal, the tech giant is using a programme that whitelists millions of VIP users from the company’s standard content moderation practices. The programme is known as […]
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San Francisco: Micro-blogging site Twitter has announced a new feature “Communities” as an alternative to Facebook’s popular Groups where people can share discussions on a specific topic. Twitter Community will have its own moderators who are able to set rules and invite or remove people. Twitter invited a handful of users to create the first […]
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Hyderabad: In a development that will cement Hyderabad as an attractive destination to the existing as well as new investors, social media giant Facebook and healthcare player Providence have taken additional space as part of its expansion plans. The social media company, in its recent move, has taken 91,000 sqft at the iconic Skyview towers. […]
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The recent ‘Milk Crate Challenge’ has been a worry for several doctors in the US. As the challenge led to several injuries, sometimes irreversible, among many in the country, the challenge was banned from leading short-video platform TikTok. However, it still remains up on Facebook and Twitter. So what is this ‘Milk Crate Challenge’? The […]
