MENLO PARK: Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it would continue requiring people to accept targeted ads as a condition of using its service, a stance that may help keep its business model…
WASHINGTON: Most of the political ads about divisive issues that ran on Facebook Inc before the 2016 US presidential election were sponsored by “suspicious groups” with no publicly available information about them, according…
HARIPUR: An American woman and a Pakistani man from Haripur met on Facebook, after which she travelled all the way to Pakistan to marry him. Mary Kathleen met Adeel Awan when he…
BRUSSELS: Sensing the Facebook scandal has shifted the transatlantic winds, the EU is asserting itself as a forward-looking regulator rather than a retrograde bulwark against Silicon Valley’s innovative might. After years of…
NEW YORK: The Facebook scandal involving the harvesting of data from tens of millions of users has raised a lot of questions about social media and search engines. As Facebook founder and…
WASHINGTON: Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s No 1 mission during his appearance before US lawmakers on Tuesday and Wednesday will be to defend against calls to regulate internet-based companies. The prospect of…
WASHINGTON: Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg will hold meetings with some US lawmakers on Monday, a day before he is due to appear at Congressional hearings over a political consultancy’s…
Taking to Facebook, founder Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday that the social networking giant would only allow verified advertisers as well as people to run the political campaigns of various parties in a…
SYDNEY: Australia on Thursday said it had begun an investigation to decide whether social media giant Facebook Inc breached its privacy laws, after the company confirmed data from 300,000 Australian users may have…
Terming 2018 a “big year” for elections, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced the usage of advanced artificial intelligence and employment of a large number of people to strengthen its security features,…
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday that he agreed “in spirit” with a strict new European Union law on data privacy but stopped short of committing to it…
MENLO PARK: Facebook will likely need “a few years” to fix the problems uncovered by the revelations on the hijacking of private user data, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said in a recent…
WASHINGTON: Playboy announced on Wednesday it was suspending its activities on Facebook to avoid being “complicit” in a wide-ranging scandal over misuse of private data, according to AFP. The adult entertainment group…
MUMBAI: Bollywood actor Farhan Akhtar has announced that he has “permanently” deleted his account from social networking website Facebook. “Good morning. This is to inform you all that I have permanently deleted…
MENLO PARK: Logging users’ call and text history “has always been opt-in only” and not without their permission, Facebook said in a statement in response to reports on some technology websites that…
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg apologised to Britons on Sunday over a “breach of trust”, taking out full page advertisements in British newspapers after a political consultancy got its hands on data on 50…
Verified Facebook pages of Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX and electric carmaker Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) disappeared on Friday, minutes after the Silicon Valley billionaire promised on Twitter to take down the pages…
