Australian tycoon battles Meta over fake adsAustralian mining magnate Andrew Forrest is suing Meta in a US court. He claims Meta should be responsible for scam advertisements featurin...
17 Apr, 2026, 09.17 AM IST
20 office gossip moments that are way too messy for HR to handleA BuzzFeed roundup collected messy office gossip shared by users on Reddit. The stories reveal awkward workplace drama, shocking incidents,...
08 Apr, 2026, 12.55 AM IST
Facebook to target harmful coordination by real accounts using playbook against fake networksThe new approach, reported here for the first time, uses the tactics usually taken by Facebook's security teams for wholesale shutdowns of ...
16 Sep, 2021, 08.03 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
Liquor delivery: Claims of fraudsters duping customers surfaceCustomers claimed fraudsters have created fake Facebook accounts in the name of some known liquor shops and are duping customers by asking ...
19 May, 2020, 12.51 PM 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 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: Fighting problem of misinformationFacebook has a three-pronged agenda which revolves around partnership, transparency and co-regulation, besides involving the civil society.
25 Feb, 2019, 11.26 AM IST
Fraud or not: New algorithm can now spot fake Facebook and Twitter accountsThe method is based on the assumption that fake accounts tend to establish improbable links to other users in the networks.
18 Apr, 2018, 03.36 PM IST
Facebook may have over 200 mn fake or duplicate accounts globallyPercentage of duplicate accounts is higher in developing markets such as India, Indonesia, and the Philippines, as compared to more develop...
04 Feb, 2018, 04.34 PM IST
Pakistan army, ISI lodge complaint over fake Facebook accountsThere are a number of accounts on FB supposedly belonging to Army chief Gen Raheel Sharif and Director General ISI Lt-Gen Rizwan Akhtar
02 Dec, 2014, 02.45 PM IST
Lok Sabha polls 2014: Facebook cracking down on fake 'likes' in poll season"We're always focused on maintaining the integrity of our site, but we've placed an increased focus on abuse from fake accounts recently," ...
31 Mar, 2014, 12.34 PM IST
FakeOff app to detect bogus Facebook accountsAs instances of cyber impersonation on social networking sites rise, an Israel-based start-up developed an application, FakeOff, that helps...
28 Jan, 2014, 04.15 PM IST
JD(U) mulls action against users of Nitish Kumar's fake Facebook accountJD(U) warned users of fake Facebook accounts under Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's name of legal action for trying to create confusion ...
01 Nov, 2013, 06.13 PM IST
- Another fake Facebook account case in Maharashtra
Raj Thackeray-led MNS has complained to police that a bogus account was allegedly created in the name of the party chief's son on social ne...
01 Dec, 2012, 03.52 PM IST
Another Facebook-related complaint from PalgharThis is the second complaint at the police station involving "objectionable" content against Bal Thackeray.
30 Nov, 2012, 09.49 PM IST
Got an unusual name? Facebook may think it's fakeFacebook's effort to purge its site of fake accounts, in the process knocking out some real people with unusual names.
19 May, 2009, 11.44 PM IST