Meta takes down spyware network run by Indian company CyberRoot Risk AdvisoryDuring its investigations into threats present across its platforms, Meta said it had discovered that CyberRoot Risk Advisory had a network...
16 Dec, 2022, 06.11 AM IST
Facebook whistle-blower’s document cache suggest pro-BJP inactionCommunications between Sophie Zhang and Facebook officials suggest that despite Zhang’s repeated follow-ups, action was not taken to take d...
06 Jun, 2022, 04.22 PM IST
Philippine Nobel winner Ressa calls Facebook 'biased against facts'The veteran journalist and head of Philippine news site Rappler told Reuters in an interview after winning the award that Facebook's algori...
09 Oct, 2021, 07.58 PM IST
Facebook cracks down on harmful real networks, using playbook against fakesThe new approach uses the tactics usually taken by Facebook's security teams for wholesale shutdowns of networks engaged in influence opera...
17 Sep, 2021, 10.28 AM IST
Facebook purged 150 covert influence operations in last four yearsThe covert influence operations originated from 2017 through mid-2021 and targeted both foreign and domestic public debate.
29 May, 2021, 02.43 PM IST
Facebook bans Myanmar military from its platforms with immediate effectIt said the decision to ban the Myanmar army came due to "exceptionally severe human rights abuses and the clear risk of future military-in...
25 Feb, 2021, 01.30 PM IST
Facebook takes down fake accounts for coordinated influence campaigns, violating policyThe network had ties to individuals linked to French military & Russia's Internet Research Agency.
16 Dec, 2020, 11.00 AM IST
Facebook removes 'inauthentic' networks spanning eight nationsMany of the networks taken down by Facebook were involved in deceptive political influence campaigns using fake accounts, targeting audienc...
06 Nov, 2020, 03.12 PM IST
Facebook faces questions on non-disclosure of network trying to influence Delhi electionsA former data scientist at Facebook detailed the allegations in a 6,600-word memo, according to a report by US-based online news portal Buz...
15 Sep, 2020, 06.48 PM IST
India calls out Pakistan for motivated false propaganda on social mediaThe report published by Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) informed that as many as 103 Facebook Pages, 78 Facebook Groups, 453 Facebook a...
02 Sep, 2020, 07.49 AM IST
View: Anti-social media in Elections 2019Over the next five weeks, outside the hot and dusty campaign rallies, much of the war will be fought on WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok...
10 Apr, 2019, 11.06 PM IST
Congress asks Facebook to list pages pulled down for 'policy violations'Congress workers said they never had so many affiliated pages to begin with and expected Facebook to “come clean” with the names of all the...
03 Apr, 2019, 09.30 AM IST
Explaining Facebook’s pre-poll crackdown on inauthentic behaviourFacebook on Monday announced that it had removed or unpublished over 1,000 Facebook pages and Facebook and Instagram accounts from India an...
03 Apr, 2019, 06.59 AM IST
Facebook takes down Pak military-linked pages targeting India ahead of Lok Sabha pollsISI personnel used fake accounts to operate Military fan pages, Kashmir community pages, Facebook said.
02 Apr, 2019, 10.44 AM IST
Facebook removes nearly 700 pages linked to Congress due to "inauthentic behaviour"Facebook said its investigation found that individuals used fake accounts and joined various groups to disseminate their content and increa...
01 Apr, 2019, 06.06 PM IST
Facebook mentions Kashmir as separate country in blog, corrects itFacebook pointed out that although the people behind this activity had attempted to conceal their identities, the company's review linked t...
27 Mar, 2019, 09.14 PM IST
Facebook, Google to bring rules on poll ads to stop ‘foreign intervention’Google said it rolled out new norms from February 14, while Facebook said its new policy will be in place from February 21.
19 Feb, 2019, 11.08 AM IST