Facebook advertisers can pursue class action over ad ratesThe decision by U.S. District Judge James Donato in San Francisco allows potentially millions of individuals and businesses that paid for a...
30 Mar, 2022, 03.28 PM IST
Facebook faces a PR crisis. What about a legal one?The ‘Facebook Papers’ leaked by whistleblower Frances Haugen aside, one of the post pressing questions is whether the US Securities and Exc...
27 Oct, 2021, 08.50 AM IST
Maharashtra to pay Rs 6 crore to handle Ajit Pawar’s social media accountsThe general administration department of the state on Wednesday promulgated an order signed by under-secretary R N Musale on the modalities...
13 May, 2021, 10.20 AM IST
Facebook employee called inflated ad metrics ‘deeply wrong’Facebook's internal emails made public in a San Francisco federal court reveal an employee’s concerns that the company misrepresented adver...
18 Feb, 2021, 10.36 PM IST
@POTUS resets as Twitter juggles presidential accountsThese institutional accounts don't belong any particular individual - they're reserved for official government use by those in the current ...
20 Jan, 2021, 08.24 AM IST
Fake profiles of IPS officials on Facebook on the riseSecurity experts say IPS officials, other high ranking officers have increasingly complained of account impersonation, other online financi...
14 Oct, 2020, 08.00 AM IST
HC declines to order linking of FB, Twitter, WhatsApp accounts with Aadhaar, PANA bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar said linking of accounts with social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook a...
09 Dec, 2019, 06.56 PM IST
Plea in SC seeking linking of social media accounts with Aadhaar to check fake newsThe plea, which seeks to weed out the duplicate, fake and ghost social media accounts, wants the government to link the profiles on such pl...
30 Sep, 2019, 08.23 PM IST
Faking it! Duplicate accounts on Facebook have grown over 3 times to more than 250 mnA duplicate account is one that a user maintains in addition to his or her principal account.
04 Feb, 2019, 03.50 PM IST
Facebook may have over 200 mn fake or duplicate accounts globallyPercentage of duplicate accounts is higher in developing markets such as India, Indonesia, and the Philippines, as compared to more develop...
04 Feb, 2018, 04.34 PM IST
Serious Fraud Instigation Office to crawl social media, internet to catch fraudstersTo check white-collar crimes and catch fraudsters, the government's corporate fraud probe agency SFIO has decided to scan social media and ...
24 May, 2015, 05.09 PM IST
Facebook may have over 100 million duplicate accounts globally: ReportAccording to the report, Facebook said the percentage of duplicate or false accounts is higher in developing markets such as India and Turk...
04 May, 2014, 03.10 PM IST
FakeOff app to detect bogus Facebook accountsAs instances of cyber impersonation on social networking sites rise, an Israel-based start-up developed an application, FakeOff, that helps...
28 Jan, 2014, 04.15 PM IST
India, Turkey lead in 143.3 million false & duplicate Facebook accountFacebook, which boasts of 119 crore accounts globally, in a US SEC filing said it estimates up to 7.9 per cent accounts being duplicate.
01 Nov, 2013, 09.30 PM IST
Facebook has about 50 million duplicate user accountsAdditionally, the site had 174 million MAUs in the US as of December 31, 2012, an increase of 8 per cent compared to the same period in 201...
08 Feb, 2013, 11.46 AM IST
Facebook's per user valuation dips below $50-markAs per the disclosure by Facebook, the social networking giant now commands a base of 955 active users - up from about 900 mn prior to its ...
05 Aug, 2012, 04.30 PM IST
- Internet giants opening doors to rivals in a bid to lure eyeballs
As more users seek to run multiple, competing applications simultaneously, Internet giants are opening doors to rivals in a bid to lure eye...
12 Nov, 2009, 04.29 AM IST