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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

Facebook employees were unable to log on to work amid outage

Facebook employees and contractors complained that they were unable to log on to their work accounts during the company's worst service outage since 2008.

Millions of users flock to Signal and Telegram after Facebook outage

Millions of new users joined the Edward Snowden-endorsed Signal on Monday, it said on Twitter

Here's what Facebook says triggered the massive outage on its apps

"This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt," the company's engineering team wrote in a blog post Monday night

Facebook blames 'faulty configuration change' for nearly six-hour outage

The company in a late Monday blog post did not specify who executed the configuration change and whether it was planned.

Facebook apologises for outage, says services 'back up and running'

All of Facebook's services, including WhatsApp and Instagram, were down for users globally beginning Monday night.

Address this: Facebook's 6-hour outage likely caused by simple tech problem

Not only did Facebook's primary platforms go down, but so too did some of its internal applications, including the company's own email system

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp partly reconnecting after six-hour outage

Facebook's engineering team apologised as the apps started to come back online

Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram face global outage: Check details here

"WhatsApp", and "#facebookdown", "#whatsappdown" and "#instagramdown" were trending on Twitter on Monday evening in India

Q&A: Facebook India MD Ajit Mohan on how to reach the next 800 mn Indians

Facebook, along with WhatsApp and Instagram, now has a user base of about 400 million in India. Now how does it plan to tap the next 800 million? Facebook India MD Ajit Mohan reveals his gameplan

Proactively moderated 38,456 content pieces in Aug: Koo compliance report

Koo has proactively moderated 38,456 content pieces, while 4,493 posts were reported by its users during the month of August, the homegrown company has said in its monthly compliance report

Google removes 93,550 content pieces in August in India: Compliance report

Google received 35,191 complaints from users and removed 93,550 pieces of content based on those complaints in the month of August, the tech giant said in its monthly transparency report

Trump goes to court trying to get Twitter to reinstate his account

Former US president Donald Trump has filed a complaint with a federal court, asking Twitter to temporarily restore his account while he pushes forward with efforts toward permanent reinstatement

Social media is reducing climate change debates to your views on veganism

This appears to be further cementing the idea that climate change is a matter of ideology, making it harder to convince people to support action to tackle it.

Facebook 'actioned' about 31.7 mn content pieces in Aug '21, shows report

Facebook "actioned" about 31.7 million content pieces across 10 violation categories proactively during August in the country, the social media giant said in its compliance report on Friday

Nigeria's president Buhari directs conditional end to Twitter ban

Nigeria suspended Twitter's operation on June 4, citing the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria's corporate existence

Facebook launches largest creator education, enablement programme in India

The programme includes an e-learning course, aimed at encouraging, educating and enabling creators even more on the platform

Instagram pauses Instagram Kids, eyes changes to access and content

The announcement follows a withering series by the Wall Street Journal, which reported that Facebook was aware that the use of Instagram by some teenage girls led to mental health issues and anxiety

Indian-origin Pixstory ties up with French club PSG for social media ethics

The startup, backed by NBA eight time all-star and Los Angeles Lakers player Dwight Howard, is also in talks with two major European clubs too for a tie-up to promote their venture

Clubhouse launches new feature to invite friends into audio chats

Popular audio chat app Clubhouse has officially launched a new way to invite people to audio chats called "Wave".