San Francisco: Facebook is in the process of restoring a number of groups that were affected by “sabotage” and were erroneously removed, the media reported. Facebook removed several groups from the platform after detecting content that violated its policies, but an investigation revealed that the content had been “posted to sabotage legitimate, non-violating groups”, The […]
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) mastered the art of influencing voters via social media platforms in Lok Sabha elections and WhatsApp has been their favourite medium simply because of its massive reach, Congress Party leader Shashi Tharoor has said. In a commentary piece in Channel News Asia on Sunday, Tharoor said WhatsApp is the […]
San Francisco: In a bid to fight disease outbreaks, Facebook has built new maps that can help its health partners better understand where people live, how they are moving and whether they have connectivity. “All of these maps, when combined with information from health systems, can improve the way organisations deliver supplies and respond to […]
New Delhi: After Facebook that is battling several data breaches, its photo-sharing service Instagram saw itself in trouble after personal data of millions of celebrities and influencers were allegedly exposed on its platform in a massive database that was traced to Mumbai-based social media marketing firm Chtrbox. The database contained 49 million records of several high-profile […]
New Delhi: Led by the Bharatiya Janata Party, political parties in India spent a total of Rs 27.73 crore on Facebook for posting political ads on the platform as the seven-phase general election ended on May 19. From February 19 to May 19, political parties posted 124,094 ads on Facebook to reach out to their […]
New Delhi: Veena Arora, a retired school principal in a small town of Uttar Pradesh, decided to use a smartphone in November last year for the first time at the cajoling of her children so that the family could stay together online even though they live in different cities. In no time, she joined WhatsApp and […]
San Francisco: Ads are coming to WhatsApp, finally, and the intrusion into the popular ad-free mobile messaging platform would begin from Status page. At a Facebook Marketing Summit in the Netherlands, Facebook revealed a 2020 launch date for WhatsApp Status ads. “WhatsApp will bring Stories Ads in its status product in 2020,” tweeted Olivier Ponteville […]
San Francisco: Facebook took over a day to tackle the doctored viral video that was intentionally slowed down to show US Speaker Nancy Pelosi talking in a slurred speech. Finding audio and digital forensic experts who could verify that the video had been manipulated required time, but while the fact-checkers were investigating the case, misinformation […]
San Francisco: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was likely to face a leadership vote at the social networking giant’s annual general meeting on Thursday to step down as Chairman. According to the BBC, Zuckerberg was “unlikely to lose the vote because he owns 60 per cent of the company’s shares”. “However, the percentage of shareholders who […]
San Francisco: Social networking giant Facebook has filed a patent for an unusual drone called “dual-kite aerial vehicle” that would use kites to stay aloft. The design shows the drone composed of two kites tethered together and floating at different altitudes. Each kite could be directed independently, and the drone could generate its own energy […]
San Francisco: A US judge has asked Facebook to hand over data privacy records related to the massive Cambridge Analytica scandal. According to a report in Engadget on Friday, Facebook shareholders in September 2018 sued the social networking platform to obtain information pertaining to the data leak of 87 million users. “Today, a US judge […]
New York: About a 100 people stripped naked in front of Facebook’s New York headquarters as part of a protest against what they view as censorship regarding Facebook and Instagram’s policies around artistic nudity. Right from dawn on Sunday, the demonstrators lay naked on the road, each with large images of male nipples covering their […]
Mumbai: Social networking giant Facebook on Tuesday announced its first interactive game show, titled “Confetti” in India. Starting June 12, the interactive show will air from Wednesday to Sunday on Facebook’s dedicated video platform – Facebook Watch, the company said in a statement. First launched in the US, the interactive game will challenge participants to […]
San Francisco: Facebook may finally launch its long-rumoured cryptocurrency later in June. The cryptocurrency, under Facebook’s “Project Libra”, is reportedly aimed at allowing Facebook’s global users to transfer money across borders and to make online purchases. With its cryptocurrency, the social networking giant is planning to include bonuses for merchants that adopt it. Infact, employees […]
San Francisco: Facebook-owned photo-messaging app Instagram is now displaying lyrics with songs posted on Stories. Along with letting users edit the text style, animations and other aspects, the feature would also allow users to decide if they want to show lyrics or screen or post Stories the older way, with no lyrics, Engadget reported on […]
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