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Politics

Political advertising on Facebook creating 'inequalities'

Traditional campaigning regulations are based on the theory that spending by each political party leads to a similar result.

May 8, 2019

By IANS

Social Media

Facebook updates video ranking system

The ranking updates will prioritze original videos that are seeked, to aid creators and publishers alike.

May 7, 2019

By IANS

Social Media

Facebook shutting down group video chat app Bonfire

Facebook's "Bonfire," which is a clone app of Group video chat application called "Houseparty," testing since 2017, will stop working this month.

May 4, 2019

By IANS

Social Media

Facebook F8 2019 highlights: Everything important announced at annual developer conference

Facebook F1 2019 has commenced and Mark Zuckerberg started off the annual developer conference with focus on privacy and touched upon other important changes.

May 2, 2019

By Sami Khan

Social Media

'Privacy-focused' Facebook unveils new look, features

Facebook announced it is re-building the architecture of Messenger from the ground up to be faster and lighter than ever before.

May 1, 2019

By IANS

Science

Facebook all set to revolutionize online dating, new feature may help to pick the perfect match

This new feature has been named 'Secret Crush' by Facebook, and it allows users to pick their perfect match using Facebook dating

May 1, 2019

By Nirmal Narayanan

Social Media

FB to fund study on social media's role in democracy

Due to allegations developed during the 2016 US Presidential elections, Facebook will now financially support studies about social media influence.

Apr 30, 2019

By IANS

Business

Google parent's shares dive as YouTube changes, competition hurt revenue

Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said revenue slowdowns should be expected as the company focuses on the long term.

Apr 30, 2019

By Reuters

Technology

Dead to outnumber the living on Facebook in 50 years

The analysis sets up two potential extreme scenarios, arguing that the future trend will fall somewhere in between.

Apr 27, 2019

By IANS

Thailand: Internet users who even view 'illegal content' to face legal action

Technology

Facebook exposed millions of Instagram passwords

The company on Thursday revealed that millions of passwords belonging to the users of its photo-sharing service Instagram were also exposed.

Apr 19, 2019

By IANS

Social Media

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram back online after brief outage

Select regions of Europe and Asia were affected by the disruption of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. In India, some people faced issues on desktop versions, but only for a brief time.

Apr 15, 2019

By Rohit KVN

Society

Facebook exploring new ways to fight fake news fast

Facebook already has several measures in place to fight misinformation on its platform.

Apr 12, 2019

By IANS

Fake news

Technology

Facebook bans white nationalism on its platforms

The social networking giant came under pressure after a white man livestreamed a terror attack on Facebook Live on two mosques in New Zealand.

Mar 28, 2019

By IANS

Social Media

Facebook Messenger gets this WhatsApp reply feature: All you need to know

Social media giant Facebook has introduced value-added direct reply feature in the Messenger group chat similar to WhatsApp.

Mar 22, 2019

By Rohit KVN

Companies

New Zealand firms to pull ads from Facebook, Google

Besides being live-streamed on Facebook, the video, lasting 17 minutes, was shared repeatedly on YouTube and Twitter, before being removed by the social media giant.

Mar 18, 2019

By IANS

Companies

Facebook stock dips after two top executives resign

Facebook lost as much as 2% in after hours trading Thursday following news of the departures of both men.

Mar 15, 2019

By Arthur Villasanta

CyberSecurity

Cybercrime: Over 60000 Facebook users' data leaked; Facebook files lawsuit against Ukrainian hackers

Facebook said that two hackers from Ukraine compromised approximately 63,000 browsers that caused over $75,000 in damages to the company.

Mar 10, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Technology

A Facebook bug allowed hackers to see who users talked to on Messenger

The bug allowed hackers to exploit iframes, which was used to adjust content and text if a Messenger window changed size.

Mar 9, 2019

By Kevin Billings

Tech & Trend

Facebook to become 'privacy-focused' like WhatsApp, says Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook will become like the mobile messaging platform WhatsApp which is more secure with end-to-end encryption.

Mar 7, 2019

By IANS

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Technology

Facebook sues over sales of fake accounts, likes and followers

Facebook filed lawsuit against four companies and three individuals from China in US federal court.

Mar 2, 2019

By Reuters

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