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Facebook bug exposed entire News Feed to ‘integrity risks’
San Francisco/New Delhi : In a startling revelation, a group of Meta engineers has reportedly identified a "massive ranking failure" that exposed nearly half of all Facebook News Feed views to potential "integrity risks".According to a…
Meta brings Slack-like shortcuts to Messenger
San Francisco : Meta, formerly known as Facebook, is adding a new Slack-like "@everyone" functionality that will notify all participants in a chat about a new message.When you start a message with @everyone, all participants in the chat…
Meta appoints new India head for auto, D2C vertical
New Delhi : Meta on Thursday announced the appointment of Saugato Bhowmik as the Director of CPG, Auto and D2C industry vertical in India to lead the strategy and solutioning that is focused on the company's largest consumer goods and auto…
Google misuses attorney-client privilege to hide documents: US Justice Dept
San Francisco : The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has accused tech giant Google of training its employees on how to shield business communications from discovery in cases of legal disputes "by using false requests for legal advice",…
Russia bans Facebook, Instagram; labels Meta as ‘extremist’
Moscow : A Moscow court has ruled to ban Facebook and Instagram in Russia, labelling the parent company of the two social networks Meta Platforms Inc. as "extremist".In its ruling on Monday, the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia said…
Meta locks out people who failed to activate Facebook Protect
New Delhi : Facebook is locking out people who did not activate the 'Facebook Protect' programme and the users complain that that company sent a mysterious, spam-like email which they ignored for security reasons.Several Facebook users took…
Meta to connect Ukrainians with timely info to stay safe
San Francisco : Meta (formerly Facebook) has announced to start showing people in Ukraine a message at the top of feed to connect them to high-quality, timely information to stay safe, find family and friends, and locate support services…
Facebook removes deepfake video of Ukrainian President
Kiev : Facebook's parent company, Meta has announced that it removed a deepfake video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asking citizens to "lay down arms" amid Russia's ongoing war on Kiev.In the video, Zelensky appears to stand…
NFTs coming to Instagram soon, says Mark Zuckerberg
San Francisco : Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that non-fungible tokens (NFTs) will soon arrive on Instagram.Addressing one of the sessions at the South By Southwest event late on Tuesday, Zuckerberg said that "over the next several…
Facebook, Instagram allow posts asking for Putin’s death in specific countries
San Francisco : In a rare exception amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Meta is allowing posts with violent speech toward Russian soldiers on Facebook and Instagram in specific countries, including calls for harm or even death of Russian…