- World
Facebook failed to control Covid misinformation due to its design, reveals study
Washington: The Covid-19 vaccine misinformation policies of Facebook, the world’s largest social media platform, were not effective in combating misinformation and its overall design is more to blame for this rather than…
- India
Youth ends life after making Facebook reel in UP
Kaushambi: A youth in Uttar Pradesh’s Kaushambi district allegedly hanged himself after making a reel on Facebook. The youth was apparently upset over failing to get his love. The 14-second video of…
- Business
Meta purges over 21 mn bad pieces of content on FB, Insta in India in July
New Delhi: Meta said that it took down over 15.8 million pieces of content across 13 policies for Facebook and over 5.9 million pieces of content across 12 policies for Instagram in…
- Middle East
Moroccan man gets 5-year jail for criticising King over ties with Israel
Rabat: A Moroccan man has been sentenced to five years in prison for sharing posts criticising the King Mohammed VI on Facebook for normalising ties with Israel, AFP reported. Said Boukioud, 48,…
- Technology
Meta may launch AI-powered personas next month
San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) will reportedly launch an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered “personas” in its services — which include Facebook and Instagram — as soon as next month, giving users a new…
- India
MP Police to examine Indian woman who visited Pak for ‘international conspiracy’
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra on Monday said the state police will examine the “international conspiracy” angle in the episode involving a 34-year-old Indian mother of two children who travelled…
- World
2 Indian-origin ministers likely to sue Singapore PM’s brother for defamation
Singapore: Singapore’s Indian-origin ministers K. Shanmugam and Vivian Balakrishnan have sent lawyers’ letters to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s brother, Lee Hsien Yang seeking an apology and damages for defamation. Yang, who…
- India
Day before UP woman’s wedding in Pak, cops visited her Indian husband’s village
Ballia: Police have visited the village of the husband of the woman who recently travelled to a remote corner of Pakistan to meet a Facebook friend, and conducted a “preliminary investigation”, officials…
- World
Indian woman weds her Pakistani FB friend ‘after converting to Islam’
Peshawar: Anju, the Indian mother of two children who travelled to a remote village in Pakistan, married her Facebook friend on Tuesday after converting to Islam and now has a new name…
- India
In pursuit of love: Indian woman travels to Pak to meet her Facebook friend
Peshawar: A married Indian woman has travelled to Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to meet her friend whom she befriended and fell in love with on Facebook, police said on Sunday. Anju,…
- Business
Meta banned from running behavioural advertising on Facebook, Instagram
London: Mark Zuckerberg-run Meta has been banned from carrying out behavioural advertising on Facebook and Instagram based on the surveillance and profiling of users in Norway, unless the company obtains users’ consent.…
- Bangalore
Mangaluru: Man duped of Rs 1.16 lakh by online fraudster
Mangaluru: A man was fleeced of Rs 1.16 lakh by an online fraudster on the pretext of sending an equipment needed for the catering industry, police said. The complainant, after seeing the…
- Technology
Meta to release commercial generative AI model
San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) is reportedly planning to release a commercial version of its artificial intelligence (AI) model in order to compete with Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s AI experiment Bard,…
- Technology
Meta to enable EU users to download apps via Facebook ads
London: To eventually compete with Google and Apple’s app stores, Meta is reportedly planning to allow people in the European Union (EU) directly download applications through Facebook ads. Some Android app developers…
- Technology
Meta expands ‘Why Am I Seeing This?’ feature in Insta, FB Reels
San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) on Thursday announced that it is expanding the “Why Am I Seeing This?” feature in the Instagram and Facebook Reels along with Instagram’s Explore page so that…
