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Facebook goes beyond warning: If you have liked, shared fake news be ready to face the music

Facebook along with warning messages in respective languages to users who have clicked on, liked or shared fake news will launch another feature 'Get The Facts'

Apr 17, 2020

By Suman Priya Mendonca

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Business

Here's how Santa Clara slowed down its coronavirus cases

Santa Clara along with San Francisco and four other Bay Area counties so far have reported 3,532 coronavirus cases in a population of 6.7 million

Apr 9, 2020

By R. Ghosh

Coronavirus

Social Media

Facebook launches new messaging app for couples to stay 'Tuned' amid Coronavirus quarantine

Created by Facebook's New Product Experimentation (NPE) team, the Tuned app is described as 'a private space where you and your significant other can just be yourselves'

Apr 8, 2020

By Gani Mohamed Waseem

Coronavirus

Business

Facebook takes on Zoom with desktop version of Messenger App, as video calls surge amid coronavirus

Facebook said that there has been a 100% surge in people using desktop browser for audio and video calling on Messenger over the past few weeks

Apr 3, 2020

By R. Ghosh

Coronavirus

Social Media

Facebook updates its privacy tool to let you see more of what it knows about you

The social media network has expanded its Download Your Information and Download Your Data tool on Facebook and Instagram to include more info that it collects about you

Mar 31, 2020

By Gani Mohamed Waseem

Business

Facebook grants $100 million to coronavirus-hit global news media

The social media giant will give $25 million to local news media in the US and invest another $75 million in the form of "additional marketing spend"

Mar 30, 2020

By R. Ghosh

Coronavirus

Society

New research on fake news analyses the surge in fake news on social media

The new study by a group in the United States has analyzed the surge of fake news in the social media in recent times

Mar 30, 2020

By IBTimes APAC Desk

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Technology

How people react to fake news on Twitter, Facebook

The team watched 25 participants scroll through their Facebook or Twitter feeds while a Google Chrome extension randomly added debunked content on top of some of the real posts

Mar 19, 2020

By IANS

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Companies

Why are Google and Facebook banning coronavirus face mask ads?

Google has followed Facebook in temporarily banning ads for medical face masks in an effort to stop people from profiting from the public health emergency

Mar 12, 2020

By Gani Mohamed Waseem

Coronavirus

Technology

Australia sues Facebook, alleges breach of user data

The Australian Information Commissioner filed a lawsuit against Facebook after accusing the company of selling the users' information to political consultant

Mar 9, 2020

By Reuters

Companies

Facebook shuts down Singapore and London offices amid Coronavirus outbreak

While Italy has reported most deaths outside China due to Coronavirus outbreak, Singapore warned on Friday that deaths in the city-state would become inevitable

Mar 7, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Coronavirus

Business

Coronavirus scare: Facebook, Amazon, Google ask employees to work from home

Seattle so far has been the most affected area in the US where more than 70 people have tested positive for coronavirus, with 10 resulting in deaths

Mar 6, 2020

By R. Ghosh

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Business

Facebook comes forward to fight coronavirus; to allow free ads to WHO

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that it will block all users trying to run false ads and spread misinformation on coronavirus

Mar 5, 2020

By R. Ghosh

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Society

Covid-19: Twitter asks all employees to work from home; WHO says world in 'uncharted territory'

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the world is in "uncharted territory" on the coronavirus outbreak.

Mar 3, 2020

By Jacob J

Coronavirus

Society

WHO takes to TikTok to combat Covid-19 misinformation

Facebook and Twitter too join in to check the fast spreading misinformation and theories on coronavirus

Mar 2, 2020

By Parvathy Rajagopal

Coronavirus

Social Media

Facebook now lets you take 3D photos from your single camera phone

The social network has developed an AI-powered 3D depth sensing technology that allows it to bring its 3D photos feature to devices that don't have portrait mode capable cameras

Feb 29, 2020

By Gani Mohamed Waseem