IANS- We should take a serious look at breaking up Facebook as the social network platform is a “utility that has gone unregulated”, Democratic presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris has stressed. In an interview with CNN on Sunday, Harris said that Facebook has experienced massive growth and has prioritized its growth over the best interests […]
IANS- Facebook should take new steps, including the issuance of alerts to users, to address the proliferation of fake accounts operated by law enforcement agencies in the US, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital civil liberties not-for-profit organization. A report in the Guardian earlier revealed that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]
IANS- Facebook, already facing the election heat in India, is busy doing something never heard of: Sending its representatives to users’ home to verify if the post with political content was actually written by them. IANS has contacted one such Facebook user in New Delhi who was recently visited by a Facebook representative for the […]
Nishant Arora(IANS)- Barely a week away from when the world’s largest democracy goes to the polls, the fake news factories on Facebook and its owned WhatsApp have become active like never before as the social media giant scrambles for solutions which are few and far between. The game on Facebook is different from other social […]
IANS- After a report revealed around 200-600 million Facebook users may have had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by over 20,000 Facebook employees, cybersecurity experts are urging users to change their passwords and turn on the two-factor authentication (2FA). So far the inquiry has uncovered archives with plain text user […]
IANS- Facebook on Thursday said it has fixed a security issue wherein millions of its users’ passwords were stored in plain text and “readable” format for years and according to reports, were searchable by thousands of its employees. The report by KrebsOnSecurity claimed on Thursday around 200-600 million Facebook users may have had their […]
IANS- Stressing that tech giants have too much influence over our lives, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren said she wanted Apple to surrender control over the iOS App Store or cease selling its own apps within it. The Democratic Senator, who recently launched her 2020 presidential bid, is in favor of passing laws that prevent […]
indica News Bureau – As part of their effort to reduce the spread of dangerous anti-vaccination propaganda, Facebook and its photo-messaging app Instagram will no longer allow advertisements that include misinformation about vaccines. The company has decided to take action against user accounts which promote vaccine misinformation that have been publicly identified by the World […]
IANS- Facebook is sending Joel Kaplan, Vice President, Global Public Policy, to face the Parliamentary Committee on Information Technology (IT) on March 6 that will hear him what the social media giant and its subsidiaries WhatsApp and Instagram are doing to safeguard citizen rights across its platforms. Ajit Mohan, Vice President and Managing Editor, […]
IANS- After a report claimed that content moderators at Facebook, traumatized by harsh working conditions and little emotional support, have resorted to drugs and having sex at the workplace, solution provider Cognizant said it is developing “the next generation of wellness practices” for such employees. A report in The Verge revealed that nearly 1,000 […]
