Will free speech pay the price as governments across the world ask social media platforms to moderate content?Some law- makers even wanted to strip some of the legal protection the tech companies have from the majority of content posted on their p...
- Facebook India policy head Ankhi Das quits after BJP bias allegation
Ankhi Das, a senior Facebook executive in India, is leaving the social media company on Tuesday, two months after media reports claimed she...
- Data protection: Parliament's joint panel summons Facebook, Twitter
The joint committee led by BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi has 20 members from the Lok Sabha and 10 from the Rajya Sabha. The agenda of Friday's mee...
- Facebook India policy head Ankhi Das resigns weeks after hate speech controversy
The resignation comes weeks after Facebook and Ankhi Das faced questions internally from employees over how political content is regulated ...
- Centre backs Facebook in SC row with Delhi Assembly over summons
“Public order and police are not in their domain. Hence, it is beyond their jurisdiction,” SG Tushar Mehta told a bench led by Justice Sanj...
- Tightening political ad bans
- Twitter tightens misinformation limits ahead of November 3 US election
The social platform will remove tweets that encourage violence or call for people to interfere with election results. Tweets that falsely c...
- View: Facebook controversy has shown that free speech just an excuse to polarise
Facebook has now become an uncontrollable Frankenstein, a gargantuan monster that is capable of slaying democracies, upending social behavi...
- Google, Facebook, Twitter to come under new I&B ministry regulations
The move coupled with the announcement on October 16 that FDI in digital media would be capped at 26% signals increasing government oversig...
- Facebook India appoints Sunil Abraham as Public Policy Director for Data and Emerging Tech
As part of the public policy leadership team, Abraham will contribute to important policy development initiatives and proceedings in India ...
- WhatsApp confirms disappearing messages features
Facebook-owned instant messaging application WhatsApp has confirmed its new exciting disappearing messages feature which, once enabled, wil...
- UK to set up watchdog to impose tougher rules on Google, Facebook
The Digital Markets Unit will be launched in April and could have powers to ‘suspend, block and reverse decisions of tech giants’, order th...
- How countries are trying to make Google, Facebook pay for news content
Google and Facebook ferry more than 80% of external traffic to various news sites, according to Parse.ly, a web analytics and content optim...
- Facebook allows users to watch videos with their friends on Messenger
The company launched the tool in July as it looks to take on Zoom Video communications inc that became a household name driven by the coron...
- Facebook-Matrix Partners plan to scale small and medium businesses
Facebook has partnered with the venture capital firm Matrix Partners as part its VC Brand Incubator Program to help scale and support early...
- We will continue to aggressively invest in India: Facebook India's Head Ajit Mohan
When we think of products and partnerships, we don't apply the lens of short term monetization. We look at can we have impact for the long ...
- RBI Twitter handle joins million followers club, first central bank in world to reach this milestone
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has beaten the US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank on Twitter by emerging as the most popular cent...
- Jio deal to only involve 'limited' data sharing for ecomm transactions, Facebook tells CCI
CCI had approved the acquisition of a 9.99% stake in RIL-owned Jio Platforms by Facebook entity Jaadhu for ₹43,574 crore in June. The Faceb...
- Facebook, Twitter CEOs to be pressed on US presidential election handling
Prominent Republican senators have refused to knock down President Donald Trump's unfounded claims of voting irregularities and fraud, even...
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