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Meta has joined hands with the Press Trust of India (PTI) to mitigate viral misinformation on its platforms including Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Threads. As a part of the collaboration, PTI will become an independent fact-checker for the company and help in identifying, reviewing, and rating misinformation. With this move, Meta now has part...

Twitter took longer to review hateful content and removed less of it in 2022 compared with the previous year, according to European Union data released Thursday. The EU figures were published as part of an annual evaluation of online platforms' compliance with the 27-nation bloc's code of conduct on disinformation.

India launched a crack down on Monday against fake reviews and unverified ratings in a bid to make online interaction and e-commerce more authentic and less misleading for users. The government has drafted a framework for companies as well as travel sites or food delivery apps which depend on consumer reviews to validate products and services. Posi...

Facebook parent Meta has raised $10 billion (roughly Rs. 79,530 crore) in its first-ever bond offering. The company is planning to fund share buybacks and investments to revamp its business. Meta is among other tech giants like Apple and Intel, who recently issued bonds to raise $5.5 billion (roughly Rs. 43,740 crore) and $6 billion (roughly Rs. 4...

Facebook user feeds prioritised content identified as misleading or problematic, thanks to a software bug that took six months to fix, according to a report.

Increase in data rates in India limited the user growth of Meta (formerly Facebook) in the December 2021 quarter, the social media major said.

WhatsApp is found to have started showing Facebook’s Meta branding on both Android and iOS devices. The change comes just days after Facebook announced the renaming of its branding to Meta.

Telegram gained over 70 million new users during the recent Facebook outage, its founder Pavel Durov said, as people worldwide were left without key messaging services for nearly six hours.

Facebook “actioned” over 33.3 million content pieces across ten violation categories proactively during June 16–July 31 in India, the social media giant said in its compliance report.

Facebook's upcoming smartwatch could reportedly feature two cameras that could be used to post footage directly to Facebook and its other apps. The smartwatch's first camera would reportedly be used for video calls while the other one, situated at the back, can be used to capture 1080p footage after being detached from the frame. According to anony...

US tech giants could benefit from the agreement of the Group of Seven rich countries' agreement to create a global minimum 15 percent corporate tax rate if the final deal also scraps increasingly popular digital services taxes, according to industry lobbyists.

Apple, Google, Amazon among other multinational businesses could be subjected to more taxes as G7 nations reach a deal to pursue higher global taxation.

Realme Narzo 30 is set to debut in Malaysia via a virtual event that will start at 12pm (noon) MYT (9:30am IST). It will be livestreamed on the company’s Malaysia Facebook account.

Oppo Band Style will be launched on March 8 alongside the Oppo F19 Pro+ 5G and the Oppo F19 Pro smartphones. The event will start at 7pm, and will be live streamed across Oppo’s social media handles, including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram.

Chief executives of four Big Tech firms — including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Google’s Sundar Pichai and Apple's Tim Cook — gave virtual testimony before the US House Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel. Online viewers took to social media to ridicule several moments from the inquiry.

Meta has joined hands with the Press Trust of India (PTI) to mitigate viral misinformation on its platforms including Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Threads. As a part of the collaboration, PTI will become an independent fact-checker for the company and help in identifying, reviewing, and rating misinformation. With this move, Meta now has part...

Twitter took longer to review hateful content and removed less of it in 2022 compared with the previous year, according to European Union data released Thursday. The EU figures were published as part of an annual evaluation of online platforms' compliance with the 27-nation bloc's code of conduct on disinformation.

India launched a crack down on Monday against fake reviews and unverified ratings in a bid to make online interaction and e-commerce more authentic and less misleading for users. The government has drafted a framework for companies as well as travel sites or food delivery apps which depend on consumer reviews to validate products and services. Posi...

Facebook parent Meta has raised $10 billion (roughly Rs. 79,530 crore) in its first-ever bond offering. The company is planning to fund share buybacks and investments to revamp its business. Meta is among other tech giants like Apple and Intel, who recently issued bonds to raise $5.5 billion (roughly Rs. 43,740 crore) and $6 billion (roughly Rs. 4...

Facebook user feeds prioritised content identified as misleading or problematic, thanks to a software bug that took six months to fix, according to a report.

Increase in data rates in India limited the user growth of Meta (formerly Facebook) in the December 2021 quarter, the social media major said.

WhatsApp is found to have started showing Facebook’s Meta branding on both Android and iOS devices. The change comes just days after Facebook announced the renaming of its branding to Meta.

Telegram gained over 70 million new users during the recent Facebook outage, its founder Pavel Durov said, as people worldwide were left without key messaging services for nearly six hours.

Facebook “actioned” over 33.3 million content pieces across ten violation categories proactively during June 16–July 31 in India, the social media giant said in its compliance report.

Facebook's upcoming smartwatch could reportedly feature two cameras that could be used to post footage directly to Facebook and its other apps. The smartwatch's first camera would reportedly be used for video calls while the other one, situated at the back, can be used to capture 1080p footage after being detached from the frame. According to anony...

US tech giants could benefit from the agreement of the Group of Seven rich countries' agreement to create a global minimum 15 percent corporate tax rate if the final deal also scraps increasingly popular digital services taxes, according to industry lobbyists.

Apple, Google, Amazon among other multinational businesses could be subjected to more taxes as G7 nations reach a deal to pursue higher global taxation.

Realme Narzo 30 is set to debut in Malaysia via a virtual event that will start at 12pm (noon) MYT (9:30am IST). It will be livestreamed on the company’s Malaysia Facebook account.

Oppo Band Style will be launched on March 8 alongside the Oppo F19 Pro+ 5G and the Oppo F19 Pro smartphones. The event will start at 7pm, and will be live streamed across Oppo’s social media handles, including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram.

Chief executives of four Big Tech firms — including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Google’s Sundar Pichai and Apple's Tim Cook — gave virtual testimony before the US House Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel. Online viewers took to social media to ridicule several moments from the inquiry.