New Delhi | The Supreme Court on Thursday said Facebook has the “power of not simply a hand but a fist, gloved as it may be”, as these platforms employ business models having potential to polarise public debates. A bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Dinesh Maheshwari and Hrishikesh Roy said: “These platforms are by no […]
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Parliamentary Committee on IT summons Google, FB on June 29
New Delhi | Parliament Standing Committee on Information Technology (I&T) has issued summons to Facebook India and Google India asking them to send their representatives to appear before it on Tuesday to hear their views on safeguarding citizens’ rights and prevention of misuse of social online news media platforms. The meeting will be held at 4 […]
Twitter, Facebook may not be able to operate in India from May 26
New Delhi | The deadline to comply with the new legal rules meant for big social media platforms, which were issued by the government three months ago, is ending on Tuesday, threatening the operations of the likes of Twitter in India. According to top official sources, social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and others, which […]
FB ‘mistakenly’ blocked posts calling for Modi to resign
New Delhi | Facebook has claimed that it mistakenly blocked posts calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the alleged Covid-19 pandemic mismanagement, saying the company did not hide the posts at the behest of the government. Buzzfeed News first reported that Facebook temporarily hid posts with the hashtag or text #ResignModi because […]
Instagram testing 3 new ‘like’ options to empower users
New Delhi | Facebook-owned Instagram is now testing a new feature that will give users more controls in the form of three options — select not to see like counts on anyones posts, turn them off for their own posts, or keep the original experience. According to The Verge, the company has announced a “small global […]
FB, Insta users can ask Oversight Board to purge harmful content
London | The independent Oversight Board on Tuesday announced it will begin accepting cases from Facebook and Instagram users who believe the company wrongfully allowed harmful content to remain on its platforms. The content eligible for review includes posts, status updates, photos, videos, comments, and shares. Decisions made through the Board’s independent judgment are binding on […]
Facebook to add labels to satire pages in News Feed
San Francisco | Fighting fake news is a complex job as users sometimes might confuse satirical content of a social media post to be the reality. To make things clearer, Facebook now wants to label certain posts. The social networking giant said it is already testing a way to give people more context about the Pages […]
Facebook won’t tell you if you’re part of massive data breach
New Delhi | Facebook is in no mood to notify those who were affected in a massive data breach involving 533 million users, including over 61 lakh Indians. The company, however, said that it has “made changes to the contact importer” to stop the scraping of the data which is old. “We have teams dedicated to […]
Facebook data of 61 lakh Indians among over 53cr users leaked
New Delhi | Personal data of nearly 533 million (53.3 crore) Facebook users, including 61 lakh Indians, remerged online after a hacker posted the details on a digital forum. The leaked data includes Facebook ID numbers, profile names, email addresses, location information, gender details, job data, and other details. The easy availability of such data may […]
FB says will carefully study new India social media guidelines
New Delhi: Under political pressure to sanitise its family of apps including WhatsApp in India, Facebook on Thursday cautiously welcomed the new social media regulations on intermediaries, saying the company will comb through the new rules to chart its further course of action. The government has come up with new stringent guidelines for social media platforms […]