Govt’s UPI boost; Meta’s fact-checking makeoverThrough an incentive scheme, the government is pushing low-level UPI payments in India. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
‘Meta will launch community notes-based fact checker in the US first’, says company's senior executiveMeta will replace third-party fact-checking with community notes in the US first, delaying global rollout until 2026. Meta’s Joel Kaplan em...
India partners with Meta on digital consumer protection initiativeThe Ministry of Consumer Affairs and Meta have launched the 'Be an Empowered Consumer' campaign to enhance digital literacy and protection ...
DoT, WhatsApp to jointly counter online scams, spam in IndiaThe Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has partnered with Meta-backed WhatsApp for a campaign called `Scam Se Bacho’ to combat online s...
Former Meta official's 'explosive' memoir about the social media giant to be published next weekThe memoir is written by Meta's former director of global public policy, Sarah Wynn-Williams, who left what was then Facebook in 2018.
WhatsApp faces EU tech rules after reaching very large platform statusAfter receiving the designation, a platform has four months to comply with the DSA requirements including identifying and assessing system ...
Facebook, Instagram owner Meta goes for big change, to follow Elon Musk's X-styleMeta-owned Facebook, and Instagram are going for a big change as the company will follow another social media.
Why Mark Zuckerberg no longer needs Nick CleggNick Clegg leaves Meta, and Joel Kaplan is promoted to president of global affairs to navigate the new political landscape. Kaplan, with a ...
Nick Clegg leaves Meta global policy team after six yearsFormer British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said Thursday he is stepping down from his role as president of Meta's global affairs and w...
Meta taps Republican Joel Kaplan to lead global policy team, replacing Nick CleggThe change atop Meta's policy and communications teams comes in the run-up to US President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, as the compan...
Donald Trump reveals Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's apology over Facebook photo error: Here's everything you need to knowFormer president Donald Trump stated that Mark Zuckerberg of Meta apologized for incorrectly labeling a Facebook photo, which caused false ...
Donald Trump assassination attempt image: Meta calls it 'hallucination'. Blames it on AI. Really? Details hereJoel Kaplan, VP Global Policy Tuesday apologized to the people and explained that these types of responses are referred to as hallucination...
Social media companies should opt for app-store level check for age-gating: Meta's Joel KaplanThe verification and subsequent consent management of the age of users below the age of 18 has been mandated by the Digital Personal Data P...
MeitY, Meta join hands to support XR technology-based startups across IndiaSpeaking at the launch of the accelerator, the minister of state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that ...
Parliament Panel questions Facebook’s ‘opacity’, tells it to engage more with ECFacebook executives conceded that the platform did not “always get it right” on content moderation
Parliamentary panel confronts Facebook over inability to check misuse of platform during pollsFacebook said they are a 'hybrid company' and failed to clearly answer which regulatory framework would apply to their content, advertising...
- Second half of Wall Street bailout needed: Paulson
US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Friday Congress would need to free up the second 350-billion dollar tranche of a massive Wall S...