Topic: facebook
Experts hail whistleblower Frances Haugen for exposing Facebook’s ‘profits over public safety’ policy
Following whistleblower Frances Haugen's Sunday night allegation that Facebook's refusal to combat dangerous lies and hateful content on its platforms is driven by profit, social media experts denounced the corporation for embracing a business model that encourages violence and endangers democracy—and urged the federal government to take action.
WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook down globally
WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook, all three apps are owned by Facebook and run on shared infrastructure, have gone down in several parts for the world, users reported on Monday evening.
Rohingya: US court orders Facebook to release hate content records
A U.S. federal judge has ordered Facebook to release records of accounts connected to anti-Rohingya violence in Myanmar that the social media giant had shut...
European regulators to probe Into Facebook’s ad data collection
European regulators on Friday announced two separate antitrust investigations into Facebook regarding its use of advertising data.
The probes, one from the European Commission and the other from...
“Need more engagement with govt,” Facebook on social media guidelines
As new guidelines notified in February this year by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology for social media platforms except Koo will come into force on Wednesday, Facebook expressed reluctance to comply with its implementation in absolute terms.
UP: Muslim youth arrested over Facebook post calling for Palestine solidarity
The Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday, arrested Yasir Akhtar, a Muslim youth from Saraimeer town close to Azamgarh, for his post on Facebook on appealing to show solidarity to Palestine.
