Tag: Facebook

New York: Facebook has said it will start removing fake news and misinformation after mounting criticism that the flow of rumours on its platform has sparked violence and led to physical harm to people in countries around the world, including in India, according to media reports. Presently, Facebook bans content that directly calls for violence […]

London: News consumption is increasingly shifting from social media platform like Facebook to messaging applications like WhatsApp, according to a study published today which also found high levels of international public concern about fake news online. The Reuters Institute report, which covers 37 countries in five continents, found that the use of social media for […]

  Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has been voted the most engaging Indian actor on Facebook in a new survey. According to Score Trends, the 75-year-old actor has over 30 million followers on the popular social networking site. The survey announced Bachchan as the numero uno actor with 100 points on Facebook, closely followed by Salman […]

  London: Cambridge Analytica, the UK-based political consulting firm embroiled in a massive data-harvesting scandal that compromised the personal information of up to 87 million Facebook users, has announced that it would immediately cease operations as the controversy had driven away virtually all of its customers. The decision was made less than two months after […]

New Delhi: The government today issued a notice to social networking giant Facebook, seeking its response over the user data breach and details of the measures it has put in place to ensure safety and prevent misuse of personal data. The Ministry of Electronics and IT today said that a notice seeking details relating to […]

Social media giant Facebook on Tuesday said it will publish an interim report on July 2 as mandated by the IT rules, and provide information on the number of content it removed proactively between May 15-June 15.

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today sought the response of Facebook, Google and Yahoo on a plea to direct them to take down the links of Blue Whale challenge, an internet-based suicide game that has been allegedly linked to several deaths of children worldwide. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C […]

Parliament Standing Committee on Information Technology (I&T) has issued summons to Facebook India and Google India asking them to send their representatives to appear before it on Tuesday to hear their views on safeguarding citizens' rights and prevention of misuse of social online news media platforms.

Washington: Facebook and Twitter users do not experience increased stress than non-users, but are more aware of negative events in their friends' lives, a new study has found.

Teens are increasingly spending less time on Facebook than on instant messaging apps, with many saying the social network is not as "cool" as it used to be, a new study involving 170,000 internet users says

London: When an amateur researcher posted a picture of a plant on Facebook, little did he realise that it could be a new plant species in the world “discovered on Facebook”. Amateur researcher Reginaldo Vasconcelos who clicked the plant in a jungle on a mountain top in Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil, decided to post it […]

Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram added the ability to view Stories on the web in 2017 and added direct messaging to desktop late last year.

Puri: Despite ban and stringent action against the violators, a picture of the Puri Jagannath temple’s interior was again made viral on social media. This time, one Megha Luthra uploaded the picture on her facebook account and captioned it ‘ek dham yatra’. Megha’s facebook profile mentions her as working at IndiGo Airlines and she is […]

The Delhi High Court has refused to stay the Competition Commission of India (CCI) notice asking Facebook and WhatsApp to furnish certain information in relation to a probe ordered by it into the instant messaging app's new privacy policy.

New Delhi: Facebook has come up with yet another smartphones application for sharing photos on the social networking site. The new app, called Moments, aims to increase the number of photos being shared on the site especially the recently updated privately-shared album option. The app also identifies people on Facebook and lets the user choose […]