Facebook Apologises After Lombok Earthquake Balloons Blunder
Facebook apologised on Wednesday after users posting about a deadly earthquake in Indonesia on the social media platform saw their messages decorated with images of balloons [Read More…]
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Facebook’s Battle Against Fake News Helped by This Tiny US Think Tank
A day before Facebook announced that it had discovered and disabled a propaganda campaign designed to sow dissension among US voters, it exclusively shared some of the suspicious [Read More…]
Twitter CEO Defends Decision Not to Ban Alex Jones, Infowars
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defended his company’s decision not to ban right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars show, saying he did not break any rules. Dorsey’s remarks, in a series [Read More…]
Facebook Sued by Shareholder Over Record Stock Plunge
Days after Facebook’s stock suffered the largest drop in Wall Street history, a shareholder sued the company, accusing the social media network of making misleading statements about its user [Read More…]
IT Secretary Calls for More Stringent Rules on WhatsApp
Although WhatsApp recently limited forwards on the app, Ministry of Electronic and IT Secretary Ajay Kumar Sawhney on Monday noted that this alone would not be enough to tackle [Read More…]
Twitter Ropes in Academic Partners to Curb Abuse, Harassment on the Platform
In line with its efforts to curb abuse and harassment of users on its platform, Twitter has now selected two research projects that aim to develop metrics [Read More…]
Twitter Sees a Fall in Monthly Active Users to 335 Million, Revenue Beats Estimates
Twitter posted record profit on Friday with second quarter revenue that beat financial analysts’ estimates and said penalising misbehaving users this year had paid off even [Read More…]
Social Media Companies Can’t Escape Responsibility: Ravi Shankar Prasad
Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday said the government has issued notice to WhatsApp as social media companies are accountable for the misuse of their platforms. The [Read More…]
Zuckerberg Loses More Than $15 Billion in Record Facebook Fall
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune took a more than $15 billion (roughly Rs. 1.03 lakh crores) hit on Thursday, as the social media company suffered the biggest one-day [Read More…]
Elon Musk Calls Thailand Cave Rescue Diver a ‘Pedo’ in Twitter Rant
It has been five days since a dozen boys were rescued from a flooded cave in Thailand, and five days since Elon Musk has been wandering [Read More…]