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...
The Australian government released a report Friday recommending tighter oversight over multinational digital platforms including Google and Facebook, to ensure fairness for other media...
A whopping 16 million accounts of Indian influencers on Facebook-owned Instagram are fake, revealed a new study, suggesting such people are artificially boosting "vanity...
Twitter on Monday said it has appointed Manish Maheshwari as the Managing Director of its India operations. Last year, Taranjeet Singh had stepped down...
Google-owned video sharing platform YouTube is being heavily criticised for hosting controversial conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who is banned from several major social networking...
Social media sites, including Twitter and Facebook, pulled down a total of 503 posts from their platforms after the Election Commission flagged them for...
The U.S. based micro-blogging site Twitter Inc on Thursday announced that "It has reported 45.6 million tweets on its platform during a first-month period...
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...
San Francisco: Aiming to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create accurate maps, Facebook said its maps now cover "majority" of Africa and that its...
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...
WhatsApp on April 2 unveiled its 'Checkpoint Tipline', where people can check the authenticity of information received as the messaging giant looks to crack...
Technology would occupy centre-stage for the first time in India's general elections, says an IT expert, who believes social media could well play a...
The Election Commission on Tuesday met representatives of Internet companies, including Facebook and Twitter, to discuss issues related to the use of social media...
Photo-messaging app Snapchat is planning to announce its in-app gaming platform codenamed "Project Cognac" during its first-ever summit for content and developer partners on...
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 Inc said on Friday it would use artificial intelligence to combat the spread of intimate photos shared without people's permission, sometimes called 'revenge...
Britain needs to overhaul its competition rules to tackle the dominance of tech giants like Facebook, Google and Amazon, and increase consumer choice, a...
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-owned photo messaging app Instagram may introduce some new tools, user-filter options, co-watching in video calls and minor interface tweaks on the app.
"Instagram is...
In a bid to help publishers perform better and generate more revenue on the platform, micro-blogging site Twitter has announced its first publisher insights...
YouTube this week has said that it will start showing 'information panels' -- flagging misinformation and offering correct insights -- for news-related videos on...
To give users more control to monitor unnecessary conversations on their handles, micro-blogging site Twitter is building a "hide reply" feature.
"People who start interesting...
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...
