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"How is it possible for you not to at least admit that Facebook played a leading role in the recruitment, planning and execution of the attack on the capitol?" asked Democratic Representative Mike Doyle.

The Facebook threat intelligence analysts disabled the accounts of a group of hackers in China known as "Earth Empusa" or "Evil Eye", disrupting their ability to use their infrastructure to abuse its platform

The House Energy and Commerce Committee was set to grill the tech honchos on Thursday over misinformation plaguing their online platforms.

During the outage late on Friday, more than 1 lakh users reported issues with Instagram on online outage tracker DownDetector, and over 25,000 users reported issues with WhatsApp.

Many users, including those in India, were unable to access both Instagram and Facebook on Android and iOS

"We are taking a closer look at a version that may be possible much sooner: wrist-based input combined with usable but limited contextualized AI, which dynamically adapts to you and your environment," Facebook said

Starting from Friday, the users can set up two-factor authentication and log into Facebook on iOS and Android mobile devices globally, including India, using a security key.

"Kids are increasingly asking their parents if they can join apps that help them keep up with their friends," Mosseri said in a tweet.

"We know we have a greater responsibility when we are amplifying or recommending content," Tom Alison, Vice President of Engineering at Facebook, wrote in a blog post on Wednesday.

The new policy sets out the human rights standards Facebook will strive to respect as defined in international law including the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs).

Facebook is not alone as Twitter in January acquired Revue, an email service that makes it free and easy for anyone to start and publish editorial newsletters, for an undisclosed sum.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a blog post Monday that labels will contain “credible information” about the vaccines and they will be in English and five other languages, with more languages added in coming weeks

The findings showed that just 10 out of the 638 population segments contained 50 per cent of all vaccine hesitancy content on the platform.

Labels will first be applied by Twitter team members when they determine the content violates the platform's policy.

According to The Intercept report, all the people who interviewed her were White.

"While the initial test is small, we hope to soon expand to more content creators. And then broaden it to short-form videos on Facebook, eventually providing a way for content creators to monetise this popular content," the company said

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a group of state attorneys general filed separate lawsuits against Facebook in December last year, accusing the social network of engaging in anti-competitive behaviour.

Jannu Kalyan (22), an auto driver from Warangal, sent friend request to girls on Facebook and after befriending them, collected their pictures from their profile

Zuckerberg detailed his vision about the next decade in virtual and augmented reality, including future Oculus VR devices.

According to a Forbes report, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is probing whether Facebook has engaged in systemic racial bias following a complaint filed by an employee and two job applicants.