Congress alleges Facebook used by BJP as weapon to spread hate; seeks JPC probe, laws to restrict itCongress leaders Rohan Gupta and Praveen Chakravarty said at a joint press conference that it is time Facebook stops being used as a weapon...
12 Nov, 2021, 05.57 PM IST
India on top of Facebook's 2021 Integrity Prioritisation ListAfter flagging multiple risks, the internal memo of the social media giant stated it needs to "come out of risk" this year in India with re...
12 Nov, 2021, 08.48 AM IST
Facebook fact checkers say curbing misinformation requires more proactive effortsAccording to the research report cited by WSJ, most users considered Facebook responsible for moderating this content.
26 Oct, 2021, 10.48 AM IST
Facebook knew about, failed to police, abusive content globally, reveal internal documentsMore than 90% of Facebook's monthly active users are outside U.S.A or Canada.
25 Oct, 2021, 05.40 PM IST
Facebook knew about, failed to police, abusive content globally: DocumentsThe documents are among a cache of disclosures made to the US Securities and Exchange Commission and Congress by Facebook whistleblower Fra...
25 Oct, 2021, 05.14 PM IST
Facebook disputes claims of inadequate flagging of vernacular contentThe company has disputed this saying it uses technology to proactively detect hate speech in the two languages as well as have reviewers fl...
06 Oct, 2021, 10.34 PM IST
Facebook says refinements in AI helped curb hate speech, sexual and violent contentIt said the "prevalence" of hate speech in the first quarter of 2021 was between 0.05 and 0.06%.
21 May, 2021, 06.11 PM IST
From hate speech to nudity, Facebook's oversight board picks its first casesThe board, which Facebook created in response to criticism of its handling of problematic content, said it had received 20,000 cases since ...
01 Dec, 2020, 09.25 PM IST
Facebook includes prevalence of hate speech in latest community standards enforcement reportFacebook said in quarter three of 2020, hate speech prevalence was 0.10% – 0.11% or 10 to 11 views of hate speech for every 10,000 views of...
20 Nov, 2020, 01.50 PM IST
View: State governments should crack down on hate speech on social mediaEarlier, hatemongers had only a limited audience in the form of an assembled crowd or pamphlets. Big media cut out hate speech. Till the 19...
08 Sep, 2020, 11.39 PM IST
Facebook responds to Congress' charge of political bias, says it is non-partisan and denounces hateThe Congress accused Facebook of interfering in India's democratic process and social harmony and being soft on members of the ruling BJP o...
03 Sep, 2020, 05.03 PM IST
Facebook bans BJP politician Raja Singh for his post containing hate speechFacebook - which counts India among its largest markets with over 300 million users - has been in the eye of a storm after a Wall Street Jo...
03 Sep, 2020, 12.34 PM IST
Facebook says it denounces hate & bigotry on its platform, says need to do more to tackle hate speech"Facebook is and always has been an open, transparent and non-partisan platform where people can express themselves freely. Over the last f...
22 Aug, 2020, 07.22 PM IST
Congress writes to Facebook CEO over alleged "bias"; demands probe into the conduct of India leadership teamThe Congress on Tuesday wrote to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, accusing Facebook India of "interfering" with the country's electoral democr...
19 Aug, 2020, 07.18 AM IST
Political slugfest: Congress-BJP trade barbs over WSJ report on FacebookThe massive political row was sparked by a report in the Wall Street Journal last week which alleged that senior Facebook executives had op...
16 Aug, 2020, 09.00 PM IST
Facebook ad boycott campaign to go global, organizers saySince the campaign launched earlier this month, more than 160 companies, including Verizon Communications and Unilever Plc, have signed on ...
29 Jun, 2020, 11.17 PM IST
Facebook brings down the iron fist against hate speech, will use AI to identify 'hateful memes'The leading social network said it had already created a database of 10,000 hateful memes.
13 May, 2020, 05.48 PM IST