Tag: Facebook

San Francisco: In a bid to curb the spread of misinformation, social networking giant Facebook is now expanding its fact-checking capabilities to all of its third-party analysis partners around the world to examine the authenticity of the photos and videos shared on the platform. “We have built a Machine Learning (ML) model that uses various […]

San Francisco: Facebook should do better for families — especially for new mothers — by allowing them flexible work hours so that they are not forced to leave their jobs, a former employee has stressed. Writing in The Wired on Sunday, Eliza Khuner, a data scientist who worked at Facebook from November 2017 to July […]

San Francisco: As countries over the world including India face elections amid the spread of fake news and political interference on social media platforms, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has asked for some more time to fix his network that has over two billion users. In a post on Friday, Zuckerberg said that Facebook started on […]

San Francisco: Twitter is planning to roll out threaded conversations like Facebook along with status indicators — showing who else is online among your followers — on its platform. In a tweet, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said on Friday that the micro-blogging platform will soon get interesting updates. “Playing with some new Twitter features: presence […]

San Francisco: Facebook has restored the cross-posted tweets of its users that temporarily disappeared following the removal of the Twitter app from Facebook, the media reported. Twitter requested the deletion of its app from Facebook as it became useless there earlier this month following Facebook’s move to give effect to an earlier decision to remove […]

San Francisco: Photo-messaging app Snapchat is the most preferred social networking platform among US teenagers, surpassing the user base of Facebook and Instagram in that age-category, says a new study. In 2018, 16.4 million 12 to 17 year-olds are likely to use Snapchat, comapred with 12.8 million for Instagram, according to the analysis by market […]

San Francisco: A day after some users complained about their Facebook posts being marked as spam, Facebook on Saturday said it has fixed the bug that caused the problem. “We have fixed a bug that caused some posts to be incorrectly marked as spam. We’ve restored the posts that were affected and are very sorry this […]

New Delhi: Social networking giant Facebook is donating $250,000 (nearly Rs 1.75 crore) for relief work in Kerala, which has been battered by torrential rains, floods and landslides, leaving over 300 dead amid massive destruction, the company said on Monday. Facebook will donate the money through the Community Resilience Fund for GOONJ — a Delhi-based […]

San Francisco: Even as the world painfully takes notes of dangers of fake news spread on social media platforms, Facebook has said that it does not remove content simply for being false. While the social network platform has in place rules against hate speech and takes personal attacks seriously, false content does not face censorship […]

San Francisco: In a bid to take on mobile dating apps like Tinder and Bumble, Facebook has begun testing its dating project internally with employees. According to a report in The Verge on Friday, an independent app researcher Jane Manchun Wong found evidence of the dating feature testing and posted it on Twitter. “This product […]

San Francisco: After facing ire over reports that its moderators protect far-right activists and under-age accounts, Facebook says it is constantly grooming over 7,500 content reviewers how to handle posts related to hate speeches, terror and child sexual exploitation on its platform. The content reviewers are a mix of full-time employees, contractors and companies Facebook […]

San Francisco: Facebook has signed a new agreement with the US state of Washington to ban discriminatory advertisements on its platform. Under the legally binding agreement, Facebook will make significant changes to its advertising platform, so as to end the practice of allowing advertisers to exclude certain groups based on race, religious belief and sex […]

San Francisco: Facebook has reportedly introduced a new feature, tentatively titled “Your Time On Facebook”, that would provide information about how much time users spent on the platform each day in a week, along with the average time spent on the site per day. The new feature would offer users the option to set a […]

San Francisco: To give YouTube stiff competition, Facebook has rolled out several monetisation products for its creator community including a “Brand Collabs Manager” that lets brands search and find creators to potentially establish deals and partnerships with. “We’ve been testing this with a limited set of partners, and will now be opening up more broadly,” […]

San Francisco: Facebook has updated its advertising policy to prohibit ads for weapon accessories to users under the age of 18, the media reported. The social network currently bans ads for the sale of weapons and modifications, like magazines. But Facebook has taken an additional step of adding an age requirement for ads selling things […]