Tag: Global Affairs

Beijing: China on Friday said it stands ready to work with India to enhance communication and coordination on international affairs, to jointly safeguard the overall interests of the two countries and developing countries around the world. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang made the remarks at a press briefing here in response to a question […]

San Francisco: As Facebook faces mounting scrutiny over its privacy and content moderation practices, the company has decided to construct a new independent “Oversight Board” like an internal “Supreme Court” that will review appeals from both Facebook and its users over controversial posts. For now, the board will begin its operations by hearing Facebook-initiated cases. The […]

San Francisco: Facebook removed more than 26 million pieces of content related to global terrorist groups like Islamic State (IS) and Al Qaeda in the last two years, 99 per cent of which were proactively identified and removed before anyone reported it to the company. “We have identified a wide range of groups as terrorist […]