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Pakistan Court Sentenced Death Penalty To Four People For Posting Blasphemy Content On Facebook

Four people on Monday were sentenced to death by a court in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, for posting blasphemous materials on the social media platform Facebook. According...

PNG Health Minister: Facebook COVID-19 misinformation is threat to vaccination drive

Papua New Guinea's Health Minister Jelta Wong has called, "Misinformation post on COVID-19 vaccine on Facebook is the biggest threat to the vaccination drive." In...

Capitol Hill: Facebook extends ban on Donald Trump’s account for the next two weeks

A day after, thousands of President Donald Trump's supporters forcefully entered the Capitol Hill building in Washington D.C. and broke windows, when joint sessions...

Australian Regulator sues Facebook for commercial use of users data

An Australian regulator has sued Facebook for using users' data through its virtual private network for commercial purposes. "Facebook was promoting its Virtual private network...

Facebook appoints Robert Kimmitt as a lead independent director

U.S. leading social networking giant Facebook Inc on Friday announced the appointment of the U.S. treasury's former deputy secretary Robert Kimmitt as a lead...

Facebook removes President Trump’s ‘census’ campaign ads

Facebook Inc said on Thursday it was removing ads from President Donald Trump's re-election campaign that asked users to fill out an "Official 2020...

Facebook’s Twitter account hacked by OurMine

Dubai-based hacker group OurMine on Friday hacked the Twitter accounts of Facebook and Messenger and posted on social media by stating, “Even Facebook account...

Facebook appoints Avinash Pant as India Marketing Head

Social network giant Facebook Inc has announced the appointment of Avinash Pant as Marketing Director for its India operations. Pant who has 22 years of...

Vodafone Group leaves Facebook's Libra currency group

Britain's Vodafone Group PLC has left the entity that manages the Facebook Inc led effort to launch Libra, a global digital currency, Libra Association...

Government's new privacy bill may force social media platforms to offer user verification option: Reports

Government's proposed new privacy bill may require large social media platforms to offer an identity-verification option, a potentially precedent-setting effort to rein in the...

Singapore govt orders Facebook to correct post under anti-fake news law

The Singapore government on Friday ordered social media giant Facebook to correct a post made by one of its users, marking one of the...

Facebook’s Escalating Feud With Elizabeth Warren

Over the last few months, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has positioned herself as one of the front-runners for the Democratic nomination for president...

Delhi HC to hear Facebook’s appeal against the order to globally block access to Baba Ramdev’s defaming video

The Delhi High Court on Thursday admitted social media giant Facebook's appeal, challenging a single-judge order directing it to globally remove, block or disable...

EU courts may order Facebook to remove worldwide illegal comments

Courts in the European Union can order Facebook to remove worldwide comments by users of its service that have been declared illegal, the European...

Facebook acquires CTRL-labs for $1 billion

Facebook Inc has bought New York-based CTRL-labs, a start-up that is exploring ways for people to communicate with computers using brain signals, in a...

Facebook business pages have more negative posts: Researchers

New York: Researchers have found out that the number of negative posts on Facebook business pages vastly outweigh the positive ones by a ratio...

Govt Of India to allow tech companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon to sell users public data

The Government of India is planning to make it mandatory for the tech companies like, “Facebook, Google, Amazon, and others, to sell public or...

Facebook fact-checking partners ask the company to share more data with fact-checkers to curb misinformation

One of Facebook's third-party fact-checking partners on Tuesday said the company needed to share more data with fact-checkers to better curb misinformation. UK-based charity Full...

Australia Govt considers more regulation of Google and Facebook

The Australian government released a report Friday recommending tighter oversight over multinational digital platforms including Google and Facebook, to ensure fairness for other media...

Japan setups working group to discuss the impact of Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra

Japanese authorities have set up a working group to discuss the impact Facebook's proposed Libra digital coin could have on monetary policy and financial...

FTC slaps Facebook with $5 billion in fine

At $5 billion, the fine the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is about to levy on Facebook is by far the largest it's given...

Facebook is not that bad, may kill depression in adults

New York: If you use a social networking site like Facebook, you are 1.63 times more likely to avoid serious psychological distress such as...

Facebook’s this update will now allow the users to rank and promote the comments

San Francisco: In a move to make conversations on public posts more meaningful, Facebook has rolled out an update where it will rank comments...

Facebook stops Huawei from pre-installing its apps on phones

LONDON: Facebook said Friday it has stopped letting its apps come pre-installed on smartphones sold by Huawei in order to comply with U.S. restrictions,...

Facebook discusses its crypto stablecoin idea with CFTC

San Francisco: Moving forward with its crypto stablecoin initiative, Facebook has ignited a discussion with the US Commodity and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). According to...

After Google and Amazon, US antitrust spotlight turns on Apple and Facebook

The American Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has secured the right to examine how Facebook’s practices affect its digital competition, Wall Street Journal reported on...

Twitter, Facebook and others remove 503 posts after Election Commission flags them

Social media sites, including Twitter and Facebook, pulled down a total of 503 posts from their platforms after the Election Commission flagged them for...

Facebook spends $22.6 million on Mark Zuckerberg security

Facebook Inc more than doubled the money it spent on Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg's security in 2018 to $22.6 million, a regulatory filing...

Facebook to ban groups for spreading fake news

San Francisco: In yet another bid to tame fake news, Facebook will crack down on Groups that repeatedly share misinformation by reducing that Group's...

Facebook plans to map the entire world’s population

San Francisco: Aiming to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create accurate maps, Facebook said its maps now cover "majority" of Africa and that its...

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