- India
UP police arrest man for sharing morphed religious images on Facebook
Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh Police on Thursday, January 16 arrested a man for uploading morphed images of the holy Quran on social media, along with inflammatory captions against the Muslim community. The arrest…
- Technology
Rise in fake news, deepfake concerns across India
New Delhi: There has been a significant rise in fake news and deepfake concerns in India, revealed a study on Friday, even as the government recently announced it is working to develop…
- News
Meta platforms face major outages: Facebook, Instagram, & WhatsApp down
Mumbai: Thousands of users worldwide reported outages on Meta Platforms’ services, including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, on December 11. According to Downdetector, over 50,000 users reported issues with Facebook, where many…
- Tollywood News
Samantha’s father’s rare FB post on her divorce goes viral
Hyderabad: Samantha Ruth Prabhu on Friday shared heartbreaking news—her father, Joseph Prabhu, passed away on November 29, 2024. The actress took to Instagram, posting an emotional note saying, “Until we meet again,…
- Business
Meta receives 47,538 reports via Indian grievance mechanism for FB, Insta in Sep
New Delhi: Social media giant Meta received 33,422 reports through the Indian grievance mechanism for Facebook in the month of September, and responded to all of these reports. Of these reports, the…
- Technology
Facebook India’s net profit up 43 pc to Rs 505 crore in FY24
New Delhi: Facebook India saw its profit surge by 43 per cent in the last fiscal (FY24), riding on digital advertising and support services offered to its parent company Meta in the…
- Technology
Meta fined $101.5 million for 2019 breach involving Facebook passwords
London: Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) on Friday fined Meta 91 million euros (around $101.5 million) for 2019 breach that exposed hundreds of millions of Facebook passwords. The Irish regulator announced its…
- World
No explosive device found at venue for Donald Trump rally: Police
New York: Nassau County Police refuted reports that an explosive device was found at or near the venue of former President Donald Trump’s rally on Wednesday. The police in a Facebook post…
- India
Breaking free from digital dominance of West: Case for Indian-owned messaging platform
New Delhi: In an article written by Rebecca Kern published in Politico in 2024, it was alleged that WhatsApp had been operating for over eight months worldwide without explicit election-disinformation policies. While…
- World
Pak to ban social media for 6 days to control ‘hate material’ during Ramadan
Lahore: After successfully blocking X, formerly Twitter, for over four months, the Pakistan government is now set to ban all social media platforms — YouTube, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok — for…
- India
UP: BJP supporter held for sharing offensive post over Kaaba
The Uttar Pradesh Bareilly police have arrested a man for allegedly sharing an offensive Facebook post that allegedly hurt the religious sentiments of the Muslim community. According to the police press note,…
- Business
Fraudsters using FB, WhatsApp to dupe users in investment scams in India: Report
New Delhi: Cybersecurity researchers have revealed the alarming rise of investment scams in India peddled through social media messaging platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, X, and others, in which fraudsters convince…
- Top Stories
Meta purged over 21 mn pieces of bad content on FB, Insta in India in May
New Delhi: Meta said that it took down over 15.6 million pieces of bad content across 13 policies for Facebook and more than 5.8 million pieces of objectionable content across 12 policies…
- Technology
Meta AI arrives in India on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and more
New Delhi: Tech giant Meta on Monday announced the availability of its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant in India on WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and meta.ai — that is built with the latest…
- World
Facebook hit with fresh user data leak, claim researchers
New Delhi: Cybersecurity researchers have reported an alleged data leak involving at least one lakh users of Facebook which appeared on a data breach forum. The team from New Delhi-based non-profit organisation…
