–Facebook’s transparency report reveals 31pc of total requests for content restriction originated from Pakistan On the request of Pakistan’s government, Facebook restricted 5,690 items within the country in the first half of…
Designers of machine translation tools still mostly rely on dictionaries to make a foreign language understandable. But now there is a new way: numbers. Facebook researchers say rendering words into figures and…
MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA: The United States regulators on Wednesday slapped a record $5 billion fine on Facebook for privacy violations in a settlement requiring the world’s biggest social network to “submit to…
LONDON: An Austrian privacy campaigner’s long-running legal battle against Facebook over its data transfers to the U.S. has reached Europe’s highest court. The European Court of Justice is hearing arguments Tuesday on…
BERLIN: German authorities say they have issued Facebook with a 2 million-euro ($2.3 million) fine under a law designed to combat hate speech. The Federal Office for Justice said Tuesday that the…
CANBERRA: Australia’s competition watchdog is poised to call for far-reaching new regulations on Facebook, Google and other tech giants which could have global ramifications for how they make money and choose the…
Pakistan ranked second in the list of countries where social media giant Facebook restricted maximum content. The total content curbed in Pakistan by the platform doubled between July and December 2018, according…
Facebook announced on Wednesday it would tighten access to its livestreaming feature as New Zealand’s premier Jacinda Ardern and French leader Emmanuel Macron prepared to launch the global “Christchurch Call” initiative to…
–Govt inks agreements with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube to ban propaganda material ISLAMABAD: Social media platforms, including Facebook and Twitter, have started deleting and blocking material spreading misinformation regarding polio vaccines in Pakistan because…
WASHINGTON: Facebook Inc co-founder Chris Hughes on Thursday called for the world’s largest social media company to be split in three and said Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg should be held responsible for…
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…
