MULTAN: The City Police Officer (CPO) Multan on Wednesday slapped ban over usage of Facebook by the policemen on their smartphones. In this regard, a letter has been issued, directing the police…
San Francisco: “Millions” of Instagram users had their passwords stored in unencrypted form on internal servers, Facebook said Thursday, raising its original estimate of tens of thousands. “We discovered additional logs of Instagram…
Facebook was inaccessible to some users on Sunday, according to Downdetector, a website that monitors outages. The site showed there had been more than 7,700 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook at its peak.…
Pakistan Army has reportedly approached Facebook to express its reservations after the social media giant removed “accounts linked to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR)” over their involvement in “inauthentic behaviour” and spamming on Monday.…
–Facebook says 103 Pakistan-origin accounts, groups and pages removed over ‘coordinated inauthentic behaviour’ –687 accounts blocked in India for violating social networking giant’s rules Facebook on Monday blocked 103 accounts, including pages…
Facebook on Tuesday said it shut down more than 2,600 fake accounts linked to Iran, Russia, Macedonia and Kosovo aiming to influence political sentiment in various parts of the world. It was…
PARIS: One of the main groups representing Muslims in France said on Monday it was suing Facebook and YouTube, accusing them of inciting violence by allowing the streaming of footage of the…
SILICON VALLEY: Facebook grappled Thursday with a widespread outage, forcing millions of people to taste life without the world’s largest social media platform. It was probably the last thing Facebook needed as…
CALIFORNIA: Facebook, already the leader in enabling you to share photos, videos and links, now wants to be a force in messaging, commerce, payments and just about everything else you do online.…
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday the company would encrypt conversations on more of its messaging services and make them compatible, the latest sign that the world’s biggest…
LAHORE: The Punjab Police seems to have given a free hand to its officers to stalk and crack down on what they claim is ‘controversial’ content being shared on social media. Recent events…
MENLO PARK: Fifteen years after its founding, Facebook has made strides toward Mark Zuckerberg´s goal of connecting the world. But it has also made some huge missteps that have turned some of…
Facebook co-founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday renewed his defence of the social network’s business, arguing that targeting ads based on interests was different from selling people’s data. “If we’re committed…
PESHAWAR: A sessions court on Wednesday sentenced a man to eight years in jail for creating fake Facebook profiles and uploading pictures of women without their permission on those profiles. The accused,…
WhatsApp is limiting all its members to forwarding any single message up to five times in an effort to tackle the spread of false information on the platform, reported BBC. The Facebook-owned…
A report released by the Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) claims that complaints of online harassment by women in Pakistan are mostly in reference to Facebook and WhatsAapp. According to data analysed from…
Social media giant Facebook has expressed its desire to work with the government of Pakistan in a bid to counter hateful and extremist views. Facebook Asia-Pacific (APAC) Vice President Simon Milner called…
