Meta watchdog says grassroots fact checks risk harm to usersMeta said it would ask ordinary users to verify controversial claims in a system known as "community notes", aping methods on X and other s...
26 Mar, 2026, 04.29 PM IST
Dutch court upholds ruling forcing Meta to offer chronological feeds in NetherlandsA Dutch court has ruled that Meta must allow users in the Netherlands to see posts chronologically on Facebook and Instagram. This decision...
10 Mar, 2026, 07.27 PM IST
Undercover investigation of Meta heads to trial in New Mexico in first stand-alone case by stateNew Mexico is leading a groundbreaking trial against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. Prosecutors allege Meta created a ...
01 Feb, 2026, 11.29 AM IST
Meta suspends Tanzania activists for showing election killingsMeta suspended the Instagram accounts of two Tanzanian activists on Thursday after they posted images of the violent crackdown by security ...
05 Dec, 2025, 12.26 AM IST
Meta to appeal Dutch court orders to change Facebook, Instagram timeline settingsThe court said elements of the design of both platforms were not in line with the European Union's Digital Services Act. It gave Meta two w...
02 Oct, 2025, 06.13 PM IST
Meta India public policy head Thukral apologises for Zuckerberg's comment on 2024 pollsA Meta executive clarified that while Mark Zuckerberg's observation about many incumbent parties not being re-elected in the 2024 elections...
15 Jan, 2025, 10.28 PM IST
Parliamentary panel to summon Meta over Zuckerberg's recent remark on Lok Sabha pollsDr. Nishikant Dubey announces that the parliamentary committee will summon Meta over CEO Mark Zuckerberg's incorrect statement about the In...
14 Jan, 2025, 04.54 PM IST
Apple wants to keep diversity programs disavowed by other US firmsApple's board urges shareholders to vote against ending the company's diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs. This comes after Meta...
12 Jan, 2025, 02.36 PM IST
President Biden blasts 'shameful' Meta decision to scrap US fact-checkingUS President Joe Biden criticised Meta for ending fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram in the US. He called it shameful. Meta's decision...
11 Jan, 2025, 11.20 AM IST
Meta Platforms defeats shareholder lawsuit over child safety claimsIn a decision on Tuesday, US District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco said the plaintiff Matt Eisner failed to show that shareholders...
23 Oct, 2024, 08.37 AM IST
WhatsApp testing Meta AI chatbot in India, other marketsWhatsApp has said that it is testing its large language model-powered chatbot Meta AI, with users in India and some other markets, in an ef...
12 Apr, 2024, 02.40 PM IST
Meta to label AI-generated, deepfake content as ‘altered’ as election approachesAhead of the 2024 general elections, Meta said content, video, photo, or audio, which is labelled as “altered” or is detected by its algori...
20 Mar, 2024, 12.28 AM IST
Meta expanding fact-checking to Threads ahead of US, India electionsMeta is expanding its fact-checking programme to Threads platform, as the US and India gear up for general elections next year.
13 Dec, 2023, 02.25 PM IST
Meta's Oversight Board asks Facebook owner to evaluate election integrity effortsThe board said on Thursday that Meta's original decision to leave up the Facebook video, which featured a Brazilian general calling people ...
22 Jun, 2023, 10.36 PM IST
Meta can handle 2024 poll content volumes, 40,000 deployed in trust & safety teams: VP Monica BickertThe company, however, is not looking to replace people from roles that can be performed by technology, she said, adding that better technol...
04 May, 2023, 12.24 PM IST
Meta says it removed China-based propaganda operation targeting US midtermsA Meta executive at the briefing said the company did not have enough evidence to say who was behind the activity in China.
28 Sep, 2022, 09.10 AM IST
Meta announces enforcement on ads around social issues in IndiaThe enforcement will require anyone running ads on social issues on Facebook and Instagram to be authorized and include disclaimers on thei...
10 Dec, 2021, 11.42 AM IST