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Reports: Facebook is tracking users who threaten its employees
Facebook has been monitoring and tracking locations of those users who can pose threat to its employees or physical properties, the media reported.According to a report in CNBC on…
Facebook says Apple is restoring its key developer access
Facebook says Apple is restoring its access to a key development tool that the iPhone maker disabled Wednesday.Late Tuesday, TechCrunch reported that Facebook paid teens and other users…
Facebook to scrub Fake Groups and Fake pages from its platform
Facebook has announced that it will proactively shut down fake Groups and Pages, even if they were not found to be in violation of its Community GuidelinesIn a blog post on Wednesday,…
Google, Facebook, and Microsoft spend big on U.S. lobbying in 2018
Alphabet Inc’s Google disclosed in a quarterly filing on Tuesday that it spent a company-record $21.2 million on lobbying the U.S. government in 2018, topping its previous high of $18.22…
Smugglers and immigrant in the UK are using Facebook to buy boats
Smugglers and migrants are using Facebook to buy boats for crossing the Channel from the French port city of Calais to come to Britain, The Telegraph reported.The Facebook "Marketplace"…
Facebook wants political adverts more transparent ahead of 2019 general election in India
To make its political ads more transparent and to avoid foreign interference ahead of 2019 general elections in India, Social networking giant Facebook Inc has announced that "All the…
Facebook gave data on user’s friends to certain companies
Facebook Inc offered some companies, including Netflix and Airbnb, access to data about users' friends it did not make available to most other apps in 2015, according to documents released…
Facebook expects rising costs to combat scandals to moderate after 2019
Facebook Inc on Tuesday relieved investors by forecasting that margins would stop shrinking after 2019 as costs from scandals ease up, sending shares up despite a second-straight quarter…
Facebook takedowns fake accounts linked with Iran
Facebook Inc has deleted accounts originating in Iran which featured posts on “politically divisive” topics that had attracted more than 1 million followers in Britain and the United States.…
Facebook removes 8.7 million images related to child porn
Facebook on Wednesday, announced, "Last quarter, Facebook was able to remove more than 8.7 million images and other contents through AI and Machine Learning technology that violated our…