Facebook Wednesday announced the appointment Samsung senior executive Francis Jose, Amazon Alexa former head Manohar Hotchandani and Viacom and Fox ex-executive Paras Sharma as three new directors to join its growing partnership team in India.
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Facebook stake in Jio Platforms of Reliance gets green light
Facebook will become the largest minority shareholder in Reliance’s Jio
Facebook includes Sudhir Krishnaswamy in its independent content oversight board
Facebook has selected the first 20 members for its independent content oversight board. One of the members is the Vice Chancellor of the National Law School of India University in Bengaluru, Mr. Sudhir Krishnaswamy. Krishnaswamy is going to review content enforcement decisions along with his team and colleagues to determine whether they are consistent with […]
Facebook comes to rescue of news outlets with $100 million, facing decline because of economic slowdown
Facebook wants to help the news industry which is facing decline because of a dip in the revenue due to fall in economic activities due to the coronavirus pandemic. A week back Facebook had announced to aid local newsrooms in the US and Canada with $1 million. Facebook today revealed that they are planning to […]
Telegram founder Durov urges WhatsApp users to delete rival messenger over security
indica News Bureau- The founder of Telegram, the messenger app, Parel Durov, in a post on the platform, has urged people to delete WhatsApp unless they are “okay with surveillance,” according to news media reports. Facebook-owned WhatsApp, which has been mired by a snooping row, is used as a Trojan horse to spy on the […]
FB employees oppose Zuckerberg’s no-holds policy for politicians, say free and paid speech are not same
indica News Bureau Several hundred Facebook employees have signed a letter to founder-CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other members of the management team criticizing the company’s decision to let politicians post any claims—even false ones—in ads on the site without any checks. In a strong statement, the employees reminded Zuckerberg, who has been citing the First […]
Zuckerberg to testify before US Congress over Libra
IANS- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the US House of Representatives on October 23 to discuss concerns over his ambitious digital currency ‘Libra’ that has run into rough weather. Zuckerberg will be grilled by lawmakers and regulators during the Q&A session at the US House Financial Services Committee The Facebook CEO will be […]
Indian-origin researcher finds 419 million Facebook users’ exposed data
IANS- Sanyam Jain, a security researcher at The Hague-based non-profit organization GDI Foundation, has discovered a massive database containing over 419 million phone numbers of Facebook users on an unsecured server, available for anyone to access. The database included 133 million records of US-based Facebook users, 18 million records of users in the United Kingdom, […]
US lawmakers ask Facebook to freeze project Libra
IANS- In a new letter sent to Facebook executives, US lawmakers are officially asking the social networking giant to cease all development of its Libra cryptocurrency, the media has reported. Under Facebook subsidiary Calibra, the social networking giant has planned to introduce a digital wallet for Libra. The wallet will be available on Messenger, […]
Facebook launches civil rights task force ahead of 2020 US polls
IANS- Facebook has announced a civil rights task force that would help the social networking giant fight political interference in the 2020 presidential campaign and census. The task force will have onboard civil rights expertise to ensure it is effective in addressing areas like content policy, fairness in artificial intelligence, privacy, and elections. “We […]