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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- WhatsApp confirms disappearing messages features
Facebook-owned instant messaging application WhatsApp has confirmed its new exciting disappearing messages feature which, once enabled, wil...
- 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...
- Tightening political ad bans
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- Facebook India appoints Arun Srinivas as director of global business group
Facebook said Srinivas’ appointment comes after a series of senior and leadership recruitments in recent months across marketing, partnersh...
- How its success is beginning to turn into a problem for Facebook in India
Between Facebook and Whatsapp, the company has not only found wide acceptance by customers, it has also been successful in staving off unfa...
- Infodemic forcing everyone to do their bit to curb misinformation
Till recently, the onus of curbing the spread of such news and misinformation rested on social media and messaging platforms such as Facebo...
- India ban hits TikTok download numbers hard globally
However, the growth in downloads slowed to a measly 2% in September over the same month last year, according to the data shared by app anal...
- 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...
- Facebook neutral, non-partisan, its India chief says defending handling of hate speeches
"The content policy of team that is at the centre of all the enforcement decisions (on hate speeches) is separate and independent in India ...
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