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Analysis shows New Yorkers spread the most of the fake news on Twitter

Twiends reported that their study has found that from over 20,000 unique Twitter users, the fake news was most often shared in New York.

Sep 23, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

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Barack Obama takes private job? Original pictures will tell you the truth

Fake posts about Barack Obama circulated on social media stating that former US president doing a private job.

Sep 15, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

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Kerala Flood or Tsunami in Japan? Facebook users slammed man for posting fake video

A man posted Tsunami video on social media platform Facebook, stating that it was a video of dangerous Kerala flood.

Sep 2, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

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Google, Facebook chip in to help track lost people affected by heavy rains in Kerala

Technology behemoths Google and Facebook have activated emergency response crisis services to help people update their safety status and help people track the missing person's whereabouts.

Aug 19, 2018

By Rohit KVN

Facebook

Facebook is sued after stock plunge 'shocked' market

The lawsuit seeks class-action status and unspecified damages. A Facebook spokeswoman declined to comment.

Jul 28, 2018

By Reuters

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Singapore sisters face 12-month conditional warning after posting racial remarks on Facebook

The twin sisters trespassed into a city mall to pray in a fire escape stairwell on two occasions and posted racial inflammatory remarks on Facebook.

Jul 7, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Facebook

Twitter replaces 'pistol' emoji with 'water gun'

The change is part of Twitter's emoji update "Twemoji 2.6," Tech Crunch reported late on Wednesday.

Apr 12, 2018

By IANS

German minister calls Facebook 'network of opacity'

Facebook has claimed that up to 310,000 Germans are likely to have been affected by the scandal.

Apr 6, 2018

By IANS

Snapchat trolls Facebook with Russian bot filter

Snapchat trolled Facebook with a filter that gets like from "my_mom" showing Facebook's older-skewing user base.

Apr 2, 2018

By IANS

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Facebook privacy settings revamped after data scandal

The changes fell into three categories and were announced in a blog. At present, mobile users see a list of about 17 different options, each of which is marked by a short title.

Mar 29, 2018

By IANS

SpaceX founder Elon Musk waves at a press conference following the first launch of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket at the Kennedy Space Center

Nothing political, I just don't like Facebook: Musk

Prior to the deletion, both the two pages had over 2.6 million Likes and Follows, and super high engagement rates.

Mar 25, 2018

By IANS

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#DeleteFacebook: Elon Musk deletes SpaceX, Tesla Facebook pages

Less than half an hour, the verified Facebook pages of SpaceX and Tesla, Inc are no longer accessible.

Mar 24, 2018

By IANS

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Prince Harry's social media account name revealed

Since royals are not supposed to be a part of the social media world, Princess Eugenie of York, has become the first royal to have a personal social media account.

Mar 22, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Data breach claims false: Facebook

Owned by the hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, Cambridge Analytica was headed at the time by Trump's key adviser Steve Bannon.

Mar 18, 2018

By IANS

Facebook

False news travels faster than truth on Twitter: Study

Social media has created a boom in the spread of information, although little is known about how it has facilitated the spread of false information.

Mar 9, 2018

By IANS

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