Meta to start labeling AI-generated content in MayFacebook and Instagram giant Meta on Friday said it will begin labeling AI-generated media beginning in May, as it tries to reassure users ...
05 Apr, 2024, 10.33 PM IST
Beefed up EU tech rules could be global standard, says Facebook whistleblowerEU industry chief Thierry Breton criticised the increased lobbying by technology companies over the draft rules and urged lawmakers fightin...
09 Nov, 2021, 12.24 PM IST
After whistleblower goes public, Facebook tries calming employeesTo counter Frances Haugen's claims — which were backed by internal documents that showed Facebook’s services hurt some children’s self-este...
11 Oct, 2021, 03.30 PM IST
Could Facebook sue whistleblower Frances Haugen?US law protects whistleblowers who disclose information about potential misconduct to the government. But that protection doesn't necessari...
09 Oct, 2021, 04.54 PM IST
Instagram and teens: How to keep your kids safeExperts say open lines of communication, age limits and if necessary, activity monitoring are some of the steps parents can take to help ki...
07 Oct, 2021, 11.28 AM IST
Facebook to remove content containing 'stop the steal' phraseFacebook has announced that it would remove all the contents from its platform that contains the phrase "stop the seal", which used by the ...
12 Jan, 2021, 08.33 AM 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 says AI getting better at spying unwanted contentPeople at Facebook continue to try to share video of a horrific mosque attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand, with social network systems bl...
14 Nov, 2019, 06.11 PM IST
Facebook’s crisis management algorithm runs on outrageOne year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Mark Zuckerberg says the company really cares. Then why is there an endless cycle of fury a...
15 Mar, 2019, 11.29 AM IST
India's graduates line up to rid Facebook of inappropriate contentFacebook directly employs content moderators but also outsources the task of screening posts.
05 Sep, 2018, 07.10 AM IST
Swachh internet abhiyan version 2.0: Meet the warriors who cleanse internet of gory, violent contentWhile it has become easier to produce real-time content in India because of the ready availability of faster data, this has added to the co...
23 May, 2018, 07.33 AM IST
For the first time, Facebook spells out what it forbidsThe social network is publishing detailed guidelines to what does and doesn't belong on its service 27 pages worth of them.
25 Apr, 2018, 07.56 AM IST
Government requests for FB user data up 14% in H1India remained the second highest requestor of content takedown, after the US and also had second highest content restriction requests in t...
24 Dec, 2016, 12.37 AM IST
Heeding Supreme Court, Facebook makes it harder to remove offensive contentFacebook, the world’s largest social network, has made it tougher for offensive content to be taken down & will do so only if it gets a leg...
30 Apr, 2016, 10.00 AM IST
'5,000 reports on a Facebook post won’t mean it’s taken down'Monika Bickert, global product policy head for the social network, tells Sumeet Keswani what stays on the social network and what can't.
23 Nov, 2015, 09.15 AM IST
India tops list of content restrictions requests, says FacebookFacebook saw a rise in content restriction requests from countries like Turkey and Russia, while requests from countries like Pakistan came...
17 Mar, 2015, 11.35 AM IST
India tops Facebook content restriction requests in second half of 2014Facebook saw a rise in content restriction requests from countries like Turkey and Russia, while requests from countries like Pakistan came...
16 Mar, 2015, 11.20 AM IST