Page 14 - Social Media

Pakistan's new social media rules give more powers to govt

As per the rules, social media companies could be fined up to Rs 500 million for various violations.

Narendra Desai - Being 'self-confident' is the most elegant suit of an influencer

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Snapchat suffers outage, users can't post or send messages

Popular social media app Snapchat went down globally on Wednesday evening and several users were unable to post story updates or send messages

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

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.

Facebook Messenger, Instagram facing issues for second time in a week

Facebook Inc confirmed that some users were having trouble accessing its apps and services, days after the social media giant suffered a six-hour outage

FB outage drives home a toxic reality

People use FB and its subsidiaries for many reasons, ranging from casual interactions with friends, to generating income in various ways

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

Short-lived glory for SMS

At its peak, the SMS service could make up for as much as 10 per cent of a telco's total revenues, now it's negligible in the overall share

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

Snapchat launches portal to encourage users toward political campaigns

Popular social media app Snapchat has announced a new "Run for Office" in-app tool to encourage young adults to run for local office in the US

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