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Facebook, Instagram Face Widespread Outage In US, Thousands Affected
Meta Platforms' Facebook and Instagram were down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Monday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
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How Facebook Activity Helped UP Cops Trace Woman Presumed Dead 3 Years Ago
A 23-year-old married woman who had successfully led her parents to believe she was either dead or abducted for three years was tracked down in Lucknow through Facebook living with her lover, police said on Wednesday.
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Regret Not Speaking Out: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg On US Pressure To Censor Covid-19 Posts
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes US government pressure on his social media platforms to take down certain Covid-19 content in 2021 was "wrong", according to a letter submitted to a US congressional committee.
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EU Presses Meta On Transparency Plans After Scraping Disinformation Tracker
The EU on Friday formally requested that Meta detail steps it is taking on transparency after the Facebook and Instagram owner scrapped a widely-used tool for tracking disinformation online.
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Meta Just Shut A Vital Online Tool. It's Bad News For Fight Against Misinformation
For more than a decade, researchers and journalists have relied on a digital tool called CrowdTangle to track and fight the spread of viral falsehoods online.
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Meta Took Down Over 17 Million Objectionable Content In India In April
Meta said that it took down over 11.6 million pieces of bad content across 13 policies for Facebook and more than 5.4 million pieces of objectionable content across 12 policies for Instagram in India in April.
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"Grave Step Backwards": Meta Shuts Down Misinformation Monitoring Tool In Poll Year
A digital tool considered vital in tracking viral falsehoods, CrowdTangle will be decommissioned by Facebook owner Meta in a major election year, a move researchers fear will disrupt efforts to detect an expected firehose of political misinformation.
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EU Asks Facebook, TikTok To Identify Deepfakes Ahead Of June Polls
The EU called on Facebook, TikTok and other tech titans on Tuesday to crack down on deepfakes and other AI-generated content by using clear labels ahead of Europe-wide polls in June.
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''Our Servers Are Working'': Elon Musk's Jibe At Meta As Facebook And Instagram Crash
Downdetector, a website that tracks outages, has recorded over 3,00,000 Facebook outages and over 47,000 outage reports for Instagram worldwide.
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[Update] Instagram Down for Several Users Globally; Facebook Users Also Report Outage
Several Instagram users are reporting an outage, and Downdetector, the website tracking real-time issues and outages, confirms it.
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Facebook, Instagram Back After Hour-Long Outage In India, Other Countries
Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger - platforms managed by Meta - were down for over an hour on Tuesday evening for thousands of users in India and several other countries.
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Ex Meta Top Executive Sheryl Sandberg To Resign From Board After 12 Years
Meta Platforms' former chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg plans to step down from her position on the company's board of directors after her term ends in May, she said in a Facebook post on Wednesday.
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Delhi Police Tracks Down 4 Suspects In Rashmika Mandanna Deepfake Case
Four suspects involved in uploading a deepfake video of actor Rashmika Mandanna online have been tracked and the hunt is on to nab the main conspirator, police said on Wednesday.
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Musk's X Slows Down Access To Top News Outlets, Social Media Rivals: Report
Social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, delayed access to links to content on the Reuters and New York Times websites as well as rivals like Bluesky, Facebook and Instagram, according to a Washington Post report on Tuesday.
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Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp Reportedly Down for Thousands of Users During Global Outage
Thousands of US users across Meta Platforms' social media offerings Instagram and Facebook, and WhatsApp reported outages on Monday, according to Downdetector.com. Around 13,000 users reported issues with accessing Instagram, while around 5,400 and 1,870 users faced outages on Facebook and WhatsApp, respectively.
![[Update] Instagram Down for Several Users Globally; Facebook Users Also Report Outage](https://i.gadgets360cdn.com/large/instagram-app-pixabay_1709655416384.jpg?downsize=260:195 "[Update] Instagram Down for Several Users Globally; Facebook Users Also Report Outage")
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Facebook, Instagram Face Widespread Outage In US, Thousands Affected
Meta Platforms' Facebook and Instagram were down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Monday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
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How Facebook Activity Helped UP Cops Trace Woman Presumed Dead 3 Years Ago
A 23-year-old married woman who had successfully led her parents to believe she was either dead or abducted for three years was tracked down in Lucknow through Facebook living with her lover, police said on Wednesday.
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Regret Not Speaking Out: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg On US Pressure To Censor Covid-19 Posts
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes US government pressure on his social media platforms to take down certain Covid-19 content in 2021 was "wrong", according to a letter submitted to a US congressional committee.
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EU Presses Meta On Transparency Plans After Scraping Disinformation Tracker
The EU on Friday formally requested that Meta detail steps it is taking on transparency after the Facebook and Instagram owner scrapped a widely-used tool for tracking disinformation online.
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Meta Just Shut A Vital Online Tool. It's Bad News For Fight Against Misinformation
For more than a decade, researchers and journalists have relied on a digital tool called CrowdTangle to track and fight the spread of viral falsehoods online.
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Meta Took Down Over 17 Million Objectionable Content In India In April
Meta said that it took down over 11.6 million pieces of bad content across 13 policies for Facebook and more than 5.4 million pieces of objectionable content across 12 policies for Instagram in India in April.
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"Grave Step Backwards": Meta Shuts Down Misinformation Monitoring Tool In Poll Year
A digital tool considered vital in tracking viral falsehoods, CrowdTangle will be decommissioned by Facebook owner Meta in a major election year, a move researchers fear will disrupt efforts to detect an expected firehose of political misinformation.
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EU Asks Facebook, TikTok To Identify Deepfakes Ahead Of June Polls
The EU called on Facebook, TikTok and other tech titans on Tuesday to crack down on deepfakes and other AI-generated content by using clear labels ahead of Europe-wide polls in June.
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''Our Servers Are Working'': Elon Musk's Jibe At Meta As Facebook And Instagram Crash
Downdetector, a website that tracks outages, has recorded over 3,00,000 Facebook outages and over 47,000 outage reports for Instagram worldwide.
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[Update] Instagram Down for Several Users Globally; Facebook Users Also Report Outage
Several Instagram users are reporting an outage, and Downdetector, the website tracking real-time issues and outages, confirms it.
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Facebook, Instagram Back After Hour-Long Outage In India, Other Countries
Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger - platforms managed by Meta - were down for over an hour on Tuesday evening for thousands of users in India and several other countries.
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Ex Meta Top Executive Sheryl Sandberg To Resign From Board After 12 Years
Meta Platforms' former chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg plans to step down from her position on the company's board of directors after her term ends in May, she said in a Facebook post on Wednesday.
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Delhi Police Tracks Down 4 Suspects In Rashmika Mandanna Deepfake Case
Four suspects involved in uploading a deepfake video of actor Rashmika Mandanna online have been tracked and the hunt is on to nab the main conspirator, police said on Wednesday.
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Musk's X Slows Down Access To Top News Outlets, Social Media Rivals: Report
Social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, delayed access to links to content on the Reuters and New York Times websites as well as rivals like Bluesky, Facebook and Instagram, according to a Washington Post report on Tuesday.
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Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp Reportedly Down for Thousands of Users During Global Outage
Thousands of US users across Meta Platforms' social media offerings Instagram and Facebook, and WhatsApp reported outages on Monday, according to Downdetector.com. Around 13,000 users reported issues with accessing Instagram, while around 5,400 and 1,870 users faced outages on Facebook and WhatsApp, respectively.
