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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

Technology

Facebook's yet another mishandling of data; accidentally shares analytics with app testers

Facebook "accidentally" did another blunder and led to the leak of user data. The incident fuelled the flames of Cambridge Analytica scandal once again, which the company is still struggling with.

Jun 24, 2018

By Susmita Pathak Mishra

Technology

Facebook teams up with ABC, Fox News, CNN: Social networking with a dose of news

New partnership will allow news leading news outlets like ABC, Fox News and CNN and to create monetised news shows for the social networking site under the 'Facebook Journalism Project.'

Jun 8, 2018

By Staff Reporter

Technology

Facebook confirms data sharing with Chinese companies

Facebook said Huawei, computer maker Lenovo Group, and smartphone makers OPPO and TCL Corp were among about 60 companies worldwide that received access to some user data.

Jun 6, 2018

By Reuters

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Technology

Facebook joins BOOM to begin fact-checking news in poll-bound Karnataka

Karnataka goes to election on May 12, and the counting of votes will take place on May 15. Facebook has 217 million users in India.

Apr 18, 2018

By IANS

Crime

Facebook spying on what website you've visited, even if logged out of FB account

Big Brother Facebook knows whenever you visit a site or app that uses its services, even if you're logged out or don't have a Facebook account.

Apr 17, 2018

By IANS

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Technology

Find 'Settings' easily with Facebook Bookmarks menu facelift

The changes are focused on centralising a variety of controls that were previously located in other places.

Apr 15, 2018

By IANS

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Society

Facebook rout? 10 percent users deleted accounts so far

A new poll has revealed that one out of ten people have deleted Facebook following fears of data breach

Apr 14, 2018

By Nirmal Narayanan

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Technology

Facebook to reward people reporting data abuse

The Data Abuse Bounty is inspired by the existing bug bounty programme that the company uses to uncover and address security issues.

Apr 11, 2018

By IANS

Crime

Zuckerberg's testimony before US Congress: Didn't do enough to prevent Facebook from misuse

Facebook is embroiled in a widening scandal that a British data firm called Cambridge Analytica had improperly gathered detailed Facebook information on 87 million users.

Apr 11, 2018

By IANS

Technology

Facebook hate speech spiked in Myanmar during Rohingya crisis

Digital researcher and analyst Raymond Serrato examined about 15,000 Facebook posts from supporters of the hardline nationalist Ma Ba Tha group.

Apr 3, 2018

By IANS

Crime

Mark Zuckerberg hits back at Tim Cook

Facebook is currently facing the heat over the leak of personal and other data of some 50 million users to political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.

Apr 3, 2018

By IANS

Social Media

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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Social Media

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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Technology

Musk deletes SpaceX, Tesla Facebook pages, Sonos withdraws ads

Mozilla announced that it was pulling its Facebook ads in light of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and continued concerns over data security.

Mar 24, 2018

By IANS

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Instagram testing standalone messaging app

Technology

Instagram to bring more newer posts to users' feed

The Facebook-owned company said it would share more about improvements it was making to the feed in the coming months.

Mar 23, 2018

By IANS

Singapore starts new facility to detect biological, nuclear substances at ports

Politics

Shanmugam doubts social media control on fake news, defends new law

Shanmugam told Facebook representative, "You will not decide whether something is true or false, you will not take down something simply because it is false."

Mar 23, 2018

By Soorya Kiran NN

Technology

Privacy risk? WhatsApp co-founder asks everyone to delete Facebook account immediately

WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton has asked Facebook users all around the world to delete their account in view of the breah of users data of about 50 million users

Mar 22, 2018

By Nirmal Narayanan

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Society

Facebook security chief likely to leave amid alleged data breach: Report

Facebook is facing a backlash as a data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump's election team allegedly harvested millions of Facebook profiles of US voters to influence their choices at the ballot box.

Mar 20, 2018

By IANS

Business

Facebook suffers drop of stocks amid alleged data leak crisis

The Facebook loss came after US and British media reported that the data of more than 50 million Facebook users were inappropriately used by a British data analysis company.

Mar 20, 2018

By IANS

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