WASHINGTON: Internet giants, including Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) and Facebook (FB.O), are moving to compromise on several major policy issues as they adjust to an abrupt shift in the political winds in Washington.…
Facebook Inc on Thursday launched an overhaul of how it handles paid political advertisements, giving a concession to US lawmakers who have threatened to regulate the world’s largest social network over secretive…
The problems keep piling up for Facebook, and it’s unclear how long the internet giant will be able to brush them aside as it barrels toward acquiring its next billion users. The…
Three Pakistani researchers—Zubair Shafiq, Shehroze Farooqui from University of Iowa, Fareed Zafar from Lahore University of Management and Sciences (LUMS) in conjunction with Nektarios Leontiadis of Facebook—have discovered a scam which permits…
Facebook on Monday took another measure to curb the spread of so-called fake news by announcing that it would ban business pages involved in sharing false stories from advertising on the social networking site.
Popular Facebook blog, Humans of New York (HONY) is now going to launch a video-series and we are getting so excited about this new development! HONY just announced in a Facebook post that it is…
VIENNA, AUSTRIA / TOKYO, JAPAN / BONN: Facebook must remove postings deemed as hate speech, an Austrian court has ruled, in a legal victory for campaigners who want to force social media companies…
Religious Affairs Minister Sardar Muhammad Yousuf on Thursday said that a team comprising representatives of social media websites, including Facebook and Twitter, will visit Islamabad next month to discuss issues relating to…
ISLAMABAD: The social networking site Facebook on Tuesday provided four Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in the CSS paper leakage case. According to media reports, efforts are…
STOCKHOLM: A Swedish citizen was sentenced to six months in jail on Thursday for inciting people to finance the Islamic State group through Facebook, a landmark case for the country. In…
Karachi: Social media has played a strong role in shaping the modern day communication, and Pakistani users seem to be catching up. The total number of Pakistani social media accounts crossed the…
The mood in Sweden was one of outrage and shock as three men of foreign origins have been arrested on suspicion of gang-raping a woman and streaming it live on facebook. Police…
Facebook has been regularly rolling out updates to make the social networking site more relevant. But apparently only thing that the popular portal has been able to achieve is making itself more and…
Alphabet, Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Intel and 90 other technology companies have filed a legal brief opposing Trump’s immigration ban on the grounds that it will harm companies’ business. Donald Trump…
NEW YORK: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to his social network to criticise US President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policies and his plans to build a wall along the border with Mexico. In his…
Under pressure to stymie the spread of fake news, Facebook on Wednesday modified its system for showing trending topics. The leading social network said that instead of simply showing a topic, it…
Facebook is integrating the Messenger app into its desktop version, giving an all new messaging experience to the desktop users. According to a report in TechCrunch on Wednesday, the change has been…
