Tag: Facebook
Facebook to offer Live Chat Support and tools against spam
As Facebook continues its effort to win over more creators, they have recently announced a new set of comment moderation and support tools to help creators maximise their use of […]
UK urged to regulate how tech giants like Facebook and Google target you with content
The U.K. should regulate internet platforms like Facebook and Google over their use of online targeting algorithms and force them to share data with researchers, an advisor to the government has said. The Centre […]
Facebook, Instagram down, Twitter has a field day
Facebook and Instagram were not available to users on Thursday evening in India and some other parts of the world, People shared their horror on Twitter. The two social media […]
Always on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter? Social media overuse leads to anxiety, says new study
Overuse of social media. (Picture for representational purpose) (Photo: Reuters) Researchers have found that social media use, television viewing and computer use, but not video gaming, are linked to an […]
Facebook will now let you turn off notification dots in its mobile app
Facebook is making a wonderful change to its mobile app to ease the pain on our notification-riddled brains: the company is rolling out the ability to turn off notification dots […]
Italy’s privacy regulator fined Facebook $1.1 mn over Cambridge Analytica case
Italy’s data protection watchdog slammed Facebook Friday with a fine of one million euros ($1.1 million) for violating privacy laws over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The penalty was for “illegal […]
Facebook emails show EU must toughen regulation on social media ‘monopoly,’ lawmaker says
A European lawmaker has called for updated regulation on Facebook and other social networks after a trove of revelatory emails was released by the British Parliament. Internal documents made public […]
Mark Zuckerberg Says He Will Highlight Steps Taken to ‘Fix Facebook’
As countries over the world including India face elections amid the spread of fake news and political interference on social media platforms, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on Friday that the company had […]
New Facebook AI System Could ‘Open’ Closed Eyes in Photo
HIGHLIGHTS Facebook researchers presented a Generative Adversarial Network It is an ML system that fools itself into thinking its creations are real Facebook researchers found the results quite promising Facebook researchers […]
Europe’s Antitrust Cop, Margrethe Vestager, Has Facebook and Google in Her Crosshairs
HIGHLIGHTS Vestager was scrutinising tech companies long before the latest scandals She said scandals “changed the context very much” Later this month, GDPR will go into effect Margrethe Vestager is […]