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Study: Social media can help boost people’s well-being following natural disaster

Social media platforms like Facebook can help support the health and wellbeing of people following a natural disaster, a study claims. A wellbeing campaign...

BIGO Technology to invest $100 million in India

Singapore-based social media platform BIGO Technology on Monday announced an investment of over $100 million to expand its business in India in the next...

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...

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey gives himself a ‘C’ grade in tech responsibility

Twitter Inc chief executive Jack Dorsey said on Tuesday that Silicon Valley companies, including his own, have not done enough to protect victims of...

WhatsApp bans Rajya Sabha MP and TDP leader CM Ramesh account from its platform

In an aim to tackle with the fake news on its platform, Facebook-owned Instant Messaging platform WhatsApp Messenger has banned the Telugu Desam...

Twitter says it does not take action on political based views

Faced with allegations of being politically biased in India, Twitter on Friday said it believes in impartiality and does not take any actions,...

Assam Finance Department to use social media for presenting the 2019-20 state budget

For the first time, the Assam Finance Department will use social media as an additional platform to inform and engage citizens on the state's...

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...

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,...

Bollywood actress Sonakshi Sinha takes Twitter for getting Iron rod instead of Bose headphone

When it comes to online shopping all it comes in our mind is best products at the best price, hassle-free home delivery. However, it...

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...

Quora’s latest data breach hits 100 million users

Quora, a question and answer providing site on Tuesday reported that "It site was affected with a massive data breach which disclosed the account...

WhatsApp appoints Ezetap CEO Abhijit Bose as India Head

Facebook-owned instant messaging service WhatsApp has appointed Abhijit Bose as the India Head. A Harvard Business School graduate, Abhijit was the co-founder and CEO of...

Instagram removes fake likes and follows, to combat automated bots

Facebook, owned photo and video-sharing social networking app Instagram, has announced that it will be removing the accounts which are using the third-party apps to...

Twitter CEO says, taking multiple steps to curb fake news ahead of 2019 Elections in India

Twitter is taking "multi-variable" steps, including the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, to curb the spread of misleading information on its platform ahead...

CII partners with WhatsApp to train Indian SME entrepreneurs

In a statement issued by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on Monday announced that "CII has partnered with WhatsApp to train Small and medium...

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...

Elon Musk says $20 Mn in fine, for a tweet worth it

Tesla Inc, Chief Executive Elon Musk said the tweet that cost him and the company $20 million in fines each by the U.S. Securities...

Indian Govt Orders Social Media Companies to monitor Fake News and Rumors

India, considered as one of the biggest internet markets in the world, has its share of troubles with fake news. In light of the meeting...

Snap expects to lose more users, shares crashed

(Reuters) - Snap Inc lost more users than Wall Street expected in the third quarter as it continued to grapple with an unpopular redesign...

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...

Google users can now easily review and delete their recent search visits

Google on Wednesday, announced its new privacy feature "which will allow the users to review and delete the data directly inside the Google products." In...

Twitter removes more Infowars related accounts

No more hate of speech, says Twitter with the suspension of 18 more accounts that were affiliated with Infowars. In an interview with CNN Today, the...

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...

Report : Saudi Arabia asked Twitter employee to spy on protesters

In a report published by The New York Times, has sparked the new debate, on how the Twitter accounts have been targeted by "state-sponsored...

YouTube Faces Global Outage Today

The Google-owned video streaming platform YouTube witnessed a worldwide outage today at around 7 AM IST. Users across the globe had reported numerous errors...

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...

Texas Woman Sues Facebook, Accused the Site of Enabling Sex Trade

A woman from Texas, claiming that she was raped, beaten, and sex trafficked at the age of 15 by a person that posed as...

Facebook Data Breach Might Render your Account Vulnerable

The social media giant Facebook announced that hackers have stolen digital login codes of nearly 50 million users in what can be described as...

LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong calls “Fake news on social media as cancer of our time”

In an interview with Billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong on CNBC on Wednesday, Patrick Soon-Shiong said that fake news on social media are the cancer of...

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