US Govt shocks Facebook on Lawsuits filed against it
The United States government had shocked the leading social media giant Facebook as the company had settled two complaints leveled against it on the grounds of having a discriminatory approach towards the local United States workers. With the social media giant coming forward to settle the agreements, it is going to charge a bomb. Facebook […]
Facebook to shut down face-recognition system, delete data
Menlo Park: Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people. This change will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology’s history, said a blog post Tuesday from Jerome Pesenti, vice president of artificial intelligence for Facebook’s new parent […]
Facebook plans rebrand with new name, says The Verge
Washington: Facebook Inc, under fire from regulators and lawmakers over its business practices, is planning to rebrand itself with a new name that focuses on the metaverse, the Verge reported on Tuesday. The name change will be announced next week, The Verge reported, citing a source with direct knowledge of the matter. The move would […]
Facebook says outage caused because of ‘faulty configuration change’
Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms are back online after a massive global outage plunged the services and the businesses and people who rely on them into chaos for hours. Facebook said late Monday that “the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change” and that there is “no evidence that user […]
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Facebook halts plans for ‘Instagram Kids’ app after criticism
Washington: Facebook is pausing the development of Instagram Kids, a version of the photo-sharing application for children under 13. Instagram chief Adam Mosseri announced the news in a blog post, saying that the Facebook-owned company would continue to work on parental-supervised experiences for younger users, reported The Verge. In the blog post and series of […]
Facebook testing to add video, voice call features back to its main app
Washington: American social media giant Facebook is now testing features to add voice and video calls back to the main app. These features, which are currently part of the standalone Messenger app, were originally spun out of the company’s main app in 2011 and officially removed in 2014. According to The Verge, these two are […]
Facebook bans all Taliban supporting content
London: Social media giant Facebook has said that it has banned the Taliban and all content supporting it from its platforms as it considers the group to be a terrorist organisation, according to a media report. The company says it has a dedicated team of Afghan experts to monitor and remove content linked to the […]
Facebook’s payment system will extend to online retailers in August
Washington: Facebook’s payment system is all set to extend to online retailers in August this year. As per The Verge, online shoppers will eventually see another option listed next to the usual payment methods, now that Facebook Pay will expand beyond the company’s own platforms. Not long after credit card companies dropped out of its […]
Facebook reverses policy, allows posts claiming that COVID-19 was made in a lab
Washington: Social media giant Facebook has lifted its ban on content claiming about the origins of COVID-19, and theories about its possible lab creation, reports said. “In light of ongoing investigations into the origin of COVID-19 and in consultation with public health experts, we will no longer remove the claim that COVID-19 is man-made from […]
Aim to comply with IT rules, working to implement operational processes: Facebook
New Delhi: Facebook on Tuesday said it is working to implement operational processes and aims to comply with the provisions of the IT rules that come into effect from May 26. The social media giant, however, said it continues to discuss a few of the issues which need more engagement with the government. The comments […]
US court shocks Facebook with $ 650 million fine
America has given a shock to the leading social media company Facebook. Facebook has been ordered by a U.S. court to pay a hefty fine. The court ordered Facebook to pay $ 650 million. U.S. District Judge James Donato is hearing a petition filed in Illinois, the USA in 2015 alleging that Facebook violated personal […]
Facebook to ‘turn down the temperature’ by reducing political content on the platform
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook is seeking to “turn down the temperature” on its sprawling platform by reducing the kind of divisive and inflammatory political talk it has long hosted. Facebook has been pounded with criticism that it not only hasn’t done enough to curb misinformation and vitriol on its network, but that its algorithm actually tended […]
Facebook sues software developer who ran over 20 Instagram clone sites
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook has filed a lawsuit in the US against Turkish software developer Ensar Sahinturk for scraping peoples publicly-visible information from Instagram in order to create a network of over 20 clone sites. According to the company, Sahinturk used automation software to scrape public profiles, photos and videos from more than 100,000 Instagram accounts […]
New Russian do-it-all tech giant Sberbank to rival Google, Facebook, Amazon
New Delhi/ Moscow: Russia’s biggest bank Sberbank on Thursday announced a major makeover to transform itself into a technology giant with the launch of a host of products and services in the digital space which will be first rolled out in its home market and taken abroad later, including to India. However, the expansion would […]
Facebook India chief Ajit Mohan skips hate speech hearing
New Delhi: Facebook India’s chief failed to appear Tuesday before a panel probing allegations that the social media giant failed to take action against hate speech, the committee’s head said. India is the US-based company and its messaging service WhatsApp’s biggest market in terms of users, and the firm is under pressure worldwide over the […]
Remove Facebook India Policy Chief Ankhi Das, 40 rights groups write to Zuckerberg
San Francisco: Civil rights groups on Wednesday said Facebook has failed to address dangerous content in India and demanded that the head of public policy for the country be removed. A letter addressed to Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg and his second-in-command Sheryl Sandberg wanted the social network’s India policy chief Ankhi Das sidelined pending the […]
Facebook may have to stop moving EU user data to US
LONDON: Facebook may be forced to stop sending data about its European users to the US, in the first major fallout from a recent court ruling that found some trans-Atlantic data transfers don’t protect users from American government snooping. The social network said Wednesday that Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has started an inquiry into how […]
Facebook Bans TS BJP MLA Raja Singh
Goshamahal BJP MLA T. Raja Singh has been banned by Facebook for violating the rules laid down by the social media platform in connection with controversial remarks and hate speech. Facebook representative said that the MLA has been banned from using their social media platform for ignoring their policy and for posting content promoting hate […]
Facebook threatens to block Australian users from sharing news
San Francisco: Facebook threatened to block Australian publishers and individuals from sharing news stories on its platform in reaction to an Australian measure that could require it to compensate media organizations for its use of their stories. The social network said the Australian move would force it to pay arbitrary and theoretically unlimited sums for […]