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Facebook India launches loans programme for small businesses in 200 places

India is the first country where Facebook is rolling out this programme in partnership with online lending platform Indifi.

Facebook removes Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's post for policy violation

Facebook has removed a content posted by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi that identified the family of a nine-year-old victim of alleged rape and murder in Northwest Delhi

Facebook's most viewed post in the US in Q2 of CY2021 came from Mumbai

The post had 80.6 million content viewers in the US. The second-most viewed post had 61.4 million viewers

What is a media company?

The media company, as we know it, however is dead

FB selects local journalists paid in $5 mn newsletter recruitment push

Facebook Inc has chosen 25 local independent journalists to be paid out of a $5 million pot to write for its newsletter site Bulletin

WhatsApp testing messages that disappear after 90 days: Report

Facebook-owned WhatsApp is now reportedly working on a similar update that will have messages disappear after 90 days

FB launches Horizon Workrooms for remote co-working in Virtual Reality

Facebook on Thursday announced that it is launching the open beta of Horizon Workrooms, available for free to download on virtual reality (VR) system Oculus Quest 2 in countries where it is supported

Taliban ramp up on social media, complicate things for Facebook, Twitter

The question of what to allow online with the Taliban is only likely to grow for the social media companies.

Facebook bans Taliban and supporting content on platform: Report

Social media giant Facebook has said that it has banned the Taliban and all content supporting it from its platforms as it considers the group to be a terrorist organisation, according to media report

How one simple rule change could curb online retailers' snooping

All the policies contain vague, confusing terms and give consumers no real choice about how their data are collected, used and disclosed when they shop on these websites

Facebook, telecom carriers to expand undersea cable network in Africa

The undersea cable sector is experiencing a resurgence, with Facebook and Alphabet Inc.'s Google behind about 80% of recent investments in transatlantic links.

FB Messenger updates end-to-end encrypted chats with new features

Facebook has announced that it is rolling out the option to make voice and video calls end-to-end encrypted on Messenger, along with updated controls for disappearing messages.

Facebook may have to unwind $400-mn Giphy deal on UK's competition concerns

Facebook, the world's largest social media company, bought Giphy, a website for making and sharing animated images, or GIFs, in May last year to integrate it with its photo-sharing app, Instagram

Google employees who WFH could lose money; FB, Twitter also cut pay

It is an experiment taking place across Silicon Valley, which often sets trends for other large employers

TikTok overtakes FB as most world's most downloaded social media app

Chinese short-video platform TikTok has overtaken Facebook as the most downloaded social media app in the world, the media reported.

Amazon lures advertisers from Facebook after Apple privacy shift

The shift from Facebook to Amazon is nascent, and it's too early to gauge how widespread the phenomenon is or how enduring it will be

India tops in terms of highest engagement on Facebook during Tokyo Olympics

India outranked countries like the US, Brazil and Philippines in terms of highest engagement on Facebook during the Tokyo Olympics 2020

When technology of espionage outstrips law's ability to protect citizens

Most surveillance firms operate out of the public eye, and given the sensitive nature of the technology they provide, it is extremely difficult to ascertain who their customers are

Mozilla slams Facebook for banning accounts of third-party researchers

Firefox browser developer Mozilla has slammed Facebook for terminating the accounts of New York University researchers, saying that the claims made by the social network simply do not hold water

US FTC says Facebook misused privacy decree to shut down ad research

The US FTC criticized Facebook on Thursday for making "misleading claims" to explain why it had disabled the accounts of researchers studying political ads on the social media platform