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Facebook's oversight board to meet with whistleblower Frances Haugen

Facebook Inc's oversight board, said on Monday it would meet with former employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen in the coming weeks

Instagram to roll out 2 tools to protect teens from harmful posts

The photo-sharing platform will introduce "take a break" feature and will also "nudge" teenagers away from bad content

Social media companies face fines for defamatory posts in Australia

Platforms getting away with not taking any responsibility: minister

India awaits finality on taxing global MNCs before removing 'Google Tax'

OECD agreement to be deliberated by finance ministers of G20 nations on Wednesday

Facebook apologizes for second outage in a week, services back up

The company confirmed its social media platform, Instagram, Messenger and Workplace were impacted by the latest outage.

'Delete Facebook' features on American news magazine TIME's cover

American news magazine TIME has brought out its latest edition with Facebook Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg

How dependent are Indian businesses on Facebook and WhatsApp?

There was a massive disruption in Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram services recently. What was the impact of Facebook, Whatsapp outage on Indian businesses? Let's find out

Second coming of social media has a business peg: Facebook India head

According to data shared by the company for the first time, 416 million users in India access Facebook every month, out of which 234 million access it every day

'A coward's palace': Morrison slams social media amid defamation law row

Prime Minister Scott Morrison's comments suggest he would favour making companies like Facebook Inc (FB.O) liable for defamation with regards to some content posted by third parties

TMS, Ep 15: Business impact of Facebook outage, Subbarao on economy, & IPOs

How deep is Indian businesses' dependence on Facebook and WhatsApp? What does RBI ex-governor Subbarao think of $5-trn economy goal? What are markets expecting from the RBI policy? All answers here

Zuckerberg's notes from 15 years ago haunt Facebook in lawsuit over privacy

It's been a bad week for Facebook, which faced an unprecedented global outage of the company's sites and a damaging interview by a former insider turned whistle-blower

Snapchat was the biggest winner the day Facebook's services went down

Facebook blamed network configuration glitches for immobilizing a suite of apps from Messenger to Instagram and driving some of its 2.7 billion daily users to the competition

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg hits back, says whistle-blower's claims are untrue

"At the most basic level, I think most of us just don't recognise the false picture of the company that is being painted," he wrote in a note to employees

Facebook blames outage on error during routine maintenance

The global outage that knocked Facebook and its other platforms offline for hours was caused by an error during routine maintenance, the company said. Santosh Janardhan, Facebook's vice president of infrastructure, said in a blog post that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp going dark was caused not by malicious activity, but an error of our own making." The problem occurred as engineers were carrying out day to day work on Facebook's global backbone network; the computers, routers and software in its data centers around the world along with the fiber-optic cables connecting them. During one of these routine maintenance jobs, a command was issued with the intention to assess the availability of global backbone capacity, which unintentionally took down all the connections in our backbone network, effectively disconnecting Facebook data centers globally, Janardhan said Tuesday. Facebook's systems are designed to catch such mistakes but in this case a bug in the audit tool prevented it

Zuckerberg denies Facebook puts profit over users' safety

Facebook Chief executive officer (CEO) Mark Zuckerberg has rejected accusations that the social network prioritises profit over its users' safety.This comes after former company product manager Frances Haugen told a congressional testimony on Tuesday that the social network was allegedly aware it inflicted harm on the mental health of teenagers but did not do much to prevent content promoting "hate and division.""At the heart of these accusations is this idea that we prioritize profit over safety and well-being. That's just not true," Zuckerberg wrote on Facebook, adding that the platform cares "deeply about issues like safety, well-being and mental health."Zuckerberg on Wednesday said that many of the accusations make no sense. He noted that if Facebook wanted to ignore harmful content, then its team would not create "an industry-leading research program to understand these important issues in the first place".A former Facebook employee on Tuesday had accused Mark Zuckerberg of ...

Maintenance error caused Facebook's 6-hour outage, company says

At a U.S. Senate hearing on Tuesday, a former employee turned whistleblower accused Facebook of putting profits before people's safety, which the company denies.

'Buck stops with Mark': Whistleblower blasts Facebook 'metrics-led culture'

"Facebook's products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy," the whistleblower said

Facebook whistleblower to say former employer an 'urgent threat' to US

Haugen, a former product manager on Facebook's civic misinformation team, says the social media giant keeps its algorithms and operations a secret

Zuckerberg loses $7 billion over Facebook outage; Telegram, Signal gain

The stock slide sent Zuckerberg's worth down to $120.9 bn, dropping him below Bill Gates to No. 5 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has had a terrible week. And it's only Tuesday

If the networking problem that brought down services aren't enough, whistle-blower Frances Haugen will appear before a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday