Tech is betting on a former executive in the race for California governorTech investor favorite Matt Mahan, a moderate Democrat and former tech executive, is running for California governor. He's gained significa...
07 May, 2026, 09.51 AM IST
Australia moves to tax Meta, Google and TikTok to fund newsroomsAustralia plans to tax Meta, Google, and TikTok. This aims to fund news reporters. The government will introduce legislation by July 2. Pla...
29 Apr, 2026, 08.10 AM IST
Meta rejects French rights watchdog's ruling against algorithmMeta Platforms on Tuesday rejected a ruling by the French rights watchdog against its algorithm after allegations of discriminatory job adv...
04 Nov, 2025, 11.30 PM IST
US Supreme Court rebuffs Meta bid to avoid advertisers' lawsuitA three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 against Menlo Park, California-based Meta in March...
14 Jan, 2025, 08.03 AM IST
Meta to be hit with first EU antitrust fine for linking Marketplace and Facebook, sources sayThe EU competition watchdog also said Meta abused its dominance by unilaterally imposing unfair trading conditions on competing online clas...
25 Jul, 2024, 08.12 PM IST
Meta must face Australian billionaire Forrest's US lawsuit over scam Facebook crypto adsIn a decision on Monday, US District Judge Casey Pitts in San Jose, California said Australia's second-richest person can try to prove that...
19 Jun, 2024, 11.11 AM IST
Facebook approved ads promoting violence in wake of Brazil riots: reportEarlier this month, thousands of supporters of Brazil's far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed the nation's congress, supreme co...
19 Jan, 2023, 04.01 PM IST
Meta to ban political ads in final week for US midterm electionsMeta said that hundreds of people across more than 40 teams are working on the midterms polls, and it spent approximately $5 billion global...
17 Aug, 2022, 11.15 AM IST
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 rejects ads focused on women's sexual health citing policies on adult products & services: ReportIn most cases, Facebook had labeled the ads as containing “adult content”.
12 Jan, 2022, 06.31 PM IST
Facebook ads have enabled discrimination; we need to know how 'dark ads' affect peopleThese so-called "dark ads" are visible only to the targeted user. They are hard to track, since an ad may only appear a few times before di...
03 Oct, 2021, 10.48 AM IST
Trump’s Facebook ban upheldFrom Trump's Facebook ban being upheld, to startup unicorns under tax lens and smartphone makers slashing production, here's a quick look a...
05 May, 2021, 08.12 PM IST
Apple iPhone privacy update seen hurting Facebook revenue in second-quarterFacebook faces up to a 7% decline in second quarter revenue if 80% of its users block the company from tracking them on iPhones, said mobil...
27 Apr, 2021, 09.28 AM IST
First day of Facebook moratorium on new US political ads marked by glitchesUnder pressure to crack down on misinformation and other abuses, Facebook said last month it would impose a moratorium - or temporary ban -...
28 Oct, 2020, 03.19 PM IST
Facebook bans militarized calls for poll watching but won't pull 'Army for Trump' videoThe world's biggest social network is scrambling to adjust its rules for the Nov. 3 vote, despite saying last month that it had set its fin...
08 Oct, 2020, 10.49 AM IST
Facebook, Google and others agree to tackle fake news: European UnionEarlier this year, the Commission told the tech industry, including Facebook and Google, and the advertising industry to draft a code of pr...
26 Sep, 2018, 06.21 PM IST
Facebook ready for Free Basics scrutiny, open for Twitter, GoogleCountering allegations of gatekeeping in website selection on its free internet platform Free Basics, Facebook said it is open to the scrut...
28 Dec, 2015, 10.10 PM IST