Friday, April 26, 2024

Topic: facebook

‘Stop enabling genocide of Indian Muslims’: Protests in US against Facebook

Hundreds of people of different faiths, professions, and backgrounds gathered in eight major cities of the United States, Saturday and Sunday to protest Facebook allowing hate speech to be freely posted in India

What is the metaverse? Two media and information experts explain

Rabindra Ratan, Michigan State University and Yiming Lei, Michigan State University The metaverse is a network of always-on virtual environments in which many people can...

Meta: Critics of Facebook say name change can’t hide company’s harm

Tech ethicists and branding professionals on Thursday said consumers should not be hoodwinked by Facebook's name change, which numerous observers compared to earlier efforts by...

Facebook enabled violence against Muslims in India, internal documents show

Facebook in India has been selective in curbing hate speech, fake news and inflammatory posts, particularly anti-Muslim content, according to leaked internal documents of social media giant obtained by several news outlets.

What caused the unprecedented Facebook outage?

David Tuffley, Griffith University Suddenly and inexplicably, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus services were gone. And it was no local disturbance. In a blog...

Whistleblower warns Facebook threat to children, democracy

Two days after a bombshell "60 Minutes" interview in which she accused Facebook of knowingly failing to stop the spread of dangerous lies and hateful content, whistleblower Frances Haugen testified Tuesday before...