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Facebook wants users to disclose passwords of their email accounts

Facebook is asking users to disclose passwords to their personal email accounts in order to access the social networking platform, the media reported. A message...

Facebook to set up 24×7 election response team ahead of Lok Sabha 2019 election

Ahead of the General Lok Sabha Elections, Social Media Giant Facebook Inc is planning to set up a 24hr response team to monitor objectionable...

Facebook removed 1.5 million videos related to New Zealand mosque attack

Social Networking Giant, Facebook Inc said that "It has removed more than 1.5 million videos related to the New Zealand mosque attack." In a tweet...

Facebook to introduce dedicated gaming tab for app

Social networking giant Facebook has begun the initial roll-out of a dedicated gaming tab as part of the app's main navigation. Facebook claims that over...

Facebook to use AI to tackle with ‘Revenge Porn’ on its platform

Facebook Inc said on Friday it would use artificial intelligence to combat the spread of intimate photos shared without people's permission, sometimes called 'revenge...

Two Ukrainian hackers leak the data of 60K Facebook users through online quizzes

Two Ukrainian men used online quizzes to lure more than 60,000 Facebook users into installing malicious browser extensions that leaked their profile data and...

Facebook partners with Josh Talks to organises Citizen Townhall in Bangalore to engage with first-time Indian voters

In an attempt to engage first-time Indian voters to participate actively in the upcoming general election, Facebook Inc on Friday organized the Citizen Townhall...

Facebook removes more than 100 fake accounts on the ground of spreading hatred in the UK

Facebook has taken down over 100 fake accounts that were used to spread hate in the UK. These pages and groups frequently changed their...

Facebook and Instagram to ban “Vaccine Hoaxes” ads from its platform

After taking action spreading of Fake News on the platform, the American social networking giant Facebook is now planning downgrade the Facebook pages and...

Facebook and Telegram are working on their own cryptocurrencies, say reports

New York: More than 50 engineers at Facebook are reportedly busy giving shape to the social media giant's own cryptocurrency and CEO Mark Zuckerberg...

Facebook to pull off this VPN app from Google Play Store

Following the scandalous revelation where Facebook was found to have been collecting data from teenagers using the "Facebook Research" app, the social networking giant...

FTC: Facebook accused of leaking sensitive health data of users in its groups

Facebook has been accused of failing to protect sensitive health data of users in its groups. "Facebook has marketed this product as a Personal Health...

The New Zealand Govt to impose a new tax on Google and Facebook

New Zealand's government announced plans on Monday for a new tax targeting online giants like Google and Facebook that earn plenty of money in...

The UK Parliamentary committee says Facebook is acting like a digital gangsters

Lashing out at Facebook for behaving like "digital gangsters" in the online world, a UK parliamentary committee concluded that the social networking giant intentionally...

Facebook to open meaningful regulation in the UK

Facebook is "open to meaningful regulation", it said on February 18 after British lawmakers said that big technology companies should be subject to a...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe resigns

Oculus co-founder and Former CEO, Brendan Iribe on Monday, has announced his departure from Facebook, which has heated a new debate inside the media...

Facebook is secretly planning to acquire this cybersecurity firm

The year has not been too good for Facebook, especially because of the recent data breach which dealt the Facebook reputation in the market. According to...

Facebook Faces Heat from Japanese Government on Grounds of Weak Data Protection Measures

Japan’s government on Monday told U.S. technology firm Facebook Inc (FB.O) to better protect its users’ personal data following lapses this year affecting tens...

Facebook appoints former UK deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg as VP of Global affairs

Facebook Inc has hired former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to lead its global affairs and communications team, as the social network deals...

Facebook may roll out “Unsend” feature for messenger to delete sent messages

According to the media reports, Facebook may soon rollout "Unsend" feature for Messenger which will allow users to retract the sent messages not only...

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