Facebook has announced that it is planning to invest over $1 billion in programmes that give creators new ways to earn money for the content they create on Facebook and Instagram.
New York: Want to quit Facebook? According to a new study, it can have both positive as well as negative effects on your life. The study, led by Hunt Allcott, Associate Professor at the New York University, suggest that Facebook plays an important role as a source of (real) news and information, as people who […]
San Francisco: Facebook and Twitter have taken down multiple Pages, groups and accounts from Iran, Russia, Bangladesh and Venezuela that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behaviour on their platforms. Facebook removed 783 pages, groups and accounts that it said was directed from Iran, in some cases repurposing Iranian state media content, and engaged in coordinated inauthentic […]
San Francisco: Despite facing intense scrutiny over data privacy, Facebook stock rose 12 per cent after it logged a record revenue of $16.91 billion — up from $12.97 billion in the year-ago period — in the fourth quarter that ended December 31. The social media giant now has 2.32 billion monthly active users (MAUs) globally […]
New Delhi: In an effort to encourage entrepreneurs and small businesses in India, Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp on Thursday announced the “Startup India-WhatsApp Grand Challenge”. The top five start-ups will receive a total grant of $250,000, the company said in a statement. “Ideas and business models capable of making a large-scale socio-economic impact and solve […]
San Francisco: Despite facing intense scrutiny over data privacy, Facebook stock rose 12 per cent after it logged a record revenue of $16.91 billion — up from $12.97 billion in the year-ago period — in the fourth quarter that ended December 31. The social media giant now has 2.32 billion monthly active users (MAUs) globally […]
London: The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has warned Facebook over its planned integration of its chat services — WhatsApp, Messenger and photo-sharing app Instagram, asking the social media giant to provide it with an “urgent briefing” on the proposals. In a statement, the Dublin-headquartered Irish watchdog said it understood the plan was at a […]
New Delhi: As India faces elections in a couple of months, Facebook said it will launch transparency tools for electoral ads next month in the country to help prevent foreign interference and make political and issue advertising on its platform more transparent. Advertisers will need to be authorised to purchase political ads and the social […]
New Delhi: Nearly 8,000 Facebook users die daily. By the end of this century, Facebook will become the worlds biggest virtual graveyard as there will be more profiles of dead people than of living users. Facebook is just one of the several social media platforms. Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Reddit and others have flooded us, […]
San Francisco: Facebook engaged in practices that “tricked” children and their parents into spending money in free-to-play games, the media has reported. According to records that are part of a class-action lawsuit, and include internal Facebook memos, secret strategies and employee emails, the social media giant engaged in what was internally dubbed “friendly fraud” in […]
London: Facebook has as termed “unequivocally false” a report that claims the social networking platform hosts one billion fake accounts, a media report said. According to a Daily Mail report, a former classmate of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed that the social media giant hosts one billion fake accounts on its platform, or 50 per […]
New York: Negative experiences on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter increase the odds of feeling lonely especially among young adults, a new study has found. Positive interactions on social media are not making young adults feel more connected, whereas negative experiences increase the likelihood of them reporting loneliness, said scientists from the University […]
New York: Negative experiences on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter increase the odds of feeling lonely especially among young adults, a new study has found. Positive interactions on social media are not making young adults feel more connected, whereas negative experiences increase the likelihood of them reporting loneliness, said scientists from the University […]
New Delhi: Aiming to curb fake news, Facebook-owned platform WhatsApp on Monday announced it has globally lowered to five the forward limit for chats — a feature first launched in India last July. “Starting today, WhatsApp will be implementing this change, globally i.e. all users on the latest versions of WhatsApp can now forward to […]
San Francisco: Facebook is set to launch a petitions feature called “Community Actions” that will let users request change from their local and national elected officials and government agencies. According to a report in TechCrunch late Sunday, “Community Actions” will be a petition feature in Facebook’s News Feed and reach users in the US on […]
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