Facebook an 'urgent threat' to US, whistleblower Frances Haugen to tell Congress"The core of the issue is that no one can understand Facebook's destructive choices better than Facebook, because only Facebook gets to loo...
05 Oct, 2021, 07.22 PM IST
No one is rooting for 'Instagram Kids'. Is this finally the storm that will faze Facebook?Critics say that a co that cannot keep human trafficking, hate speech and the live-streaming of suicides off its platform should not be tru...
01 Oct, 2021, 07.01 PM IST
Bill to aid US publishers vs. Google, Facebook rises againAustralia and other countries have started pushing mechanisms to support news publishers against Facebook and Google, which dominate online...
23 Mar, 2021, 11.49 AM IST
Bill to aid US publishers vs. Google, Facebook rises againAustralia and other countries have started pushing mechanisms to support news publishers against Facebook and Google, which dominate online...
22 Mar, 2021, 08.24 PM IST
Facebook, Twitter CEOs to testify Tuesday to U.S. Senate panel over content moderation decisionsBiden, now President-elect, has also said he favors repealing Section 230. Congressional Democrats, however, prefer a more deliberate appro...
17 Nov, 2020, 04.48 PM IST
Antitrust hearing: Did a tech glitch help Jeff Bezos escape early questions?Poor audio quality, flat-screen televisions going off, chief executives appearing together as thumbnails on a large screen - led to observe...
30 Jul, 2020, 02.36 PM IST
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg skewered with damaging internal emails during antitrust hearingThe House Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel appeared to draw on a rich trove of Facebook company emails, releasing numerous screenshots...
30 Jul, 2020, 09.22 AM IST
Facebook delays second-quarter results as Zuckerberg set to appear before CongressThe hearing, which will also include heads of Alphabet Inc's Google, Amazon.com Inc and Apple Inc , is scheduled for July 29.
27 Jul, 2020, 07.32 PM IST
Facebook says SEC, FBI probing Cambridge Analytica incidentThe probe by the SEC and FBI was reported earlier by the Washington Post. Facebook shares slipped 1% in extended trading, after closing Mon...
03 Jul, 2018, 11.47 PM IST
Data Breach: Government combs through Facebook, Cambridge Analytica's responsesFacebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has since been summoned for congressional hearings by the US government where he had to face a barrage of to...
18 Apr, 2018, 10.41 AM IST
Government 'examining' FB and Analytica's responses on the data breach issueFacebook has partnered with BOOM, an independent fact checking initiative for a pilot in Karnataka to check the "false news" on its platfor...
17 Apr, 2018, 08.01 PM IST
Facebook explains why it collects data from people who don't have accounts on the social networkZuckerberg said Facebook needed to track people who weren’t members for 'security purposes'.
17 Apr, 2018, 09.31 AM IST
Mark Zuckerberg claims, despite data leaks, not too many people have un-friended Facebook!Zuckerberg acknowledged this during a Congressional hearing.
12 Apr, 2018, 03.10 PM IST
Who's going to protect us from Facebook, US Senators ask Mark ZuckerbergZuckerberg said he was willing to consider new restrictions, and agreed to send Congress suggestions. "Your user agreement sucks," one Sena...
11 Apr, 2018, 10.29 PM IST
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to testify before US Congress over data privacy: SourceFacebook said the company had received invitations to testify before Congress and that they were talking to legislators.
28 Mar, 2018, 06.43 AM IST
US Senate committee summons FB, Google, Twitter CEOs to testify on data misuseThe hearing will broadly cover privacy standards for the collection, retention and dissemination of consumer data for commercial use.
27 Mar, 2018, 04.04 PM IST
Fired Disney workers support Trump, slam H-1B visa programme"Disney fired hundreds of us. This situation at Disney is not an anomaly. It's happening nationwide," said the fired IT engineer, Leo Perre...
01 Mar, 2016, 10.37 AM IST