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Meta removes accounts related to BJP MLA Raja Singh over hate speech
Hyderabad: In a decisive action, IT giant Meta has removed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Goshamahal MLA T Raja Singh’s Facebook and Instagram accounts over allegations of hate speech. These accounts were removed…
- India
Meta’s 50,000 Km undersea cable project to enhance India-US’ digital connectivity
New Delhi: Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp parent company Meta announced a new 50,000 Km undersea cable project ‘Waterworth’ to enhance digital connectivity between India and the US. According to the Meta, Project…
- World
Meta likely to lay off thousands of employees, says leaked memo
New Delhi: Tech giant Meta is expected to lay off around 3,000 employees, which is about 5 percent of its total workforce, as per a leaked internal memo, reports said on Sunday,…
- India
Meta India apologises for CEO Zuckerberg’s remark on India’s elections
New Delhi: Meta India on Wednesday apologised for CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s remarks during a podcast that the incumbent government in India lost power in the 2024 elections, and termed it an “inadvertent…
- World
Australian PM reiterates social media responsibility after Meta abandons fact-checking
Canberra: Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reiterated social media’s social responsibility on Wednesday following Meta’s announcement to abandon its fact-checking programme. “Social media has a social responsibility,” Albanese told a press conference…
- World
Meta to end fact-checking programme before Trump’s inauguration
New Delhi: Ahead of US President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, social media platform Meta has said it is going to stop using fact-checkers. Meta said that this move is to…
- News
Meta platforms face major outages: Facebook, Instagram, & WhatsApp down
Mumbai: Thousands of users worldwide reported outages on Meta Platforms’ services, including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, on December 11. According to Downdetector, over 50,000 users reported issues with Facebook, where many…
- Middle East
Turkey fines Meta over child privacy breach
Ankara: Turkey’s data protection authority, the Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK), has fined Meta, the parent company of Instagram, 11.5 million Turkish liras (around 330,000 US dollars) for violations related to the…
- World
AI revolution yet to come, regulations may hinder innovation: Meta AI chief
Seoul: Yann LeCun, the chief artificial intelligence (AI) scientist at global tech giant Meta Platforms, said that the “real AI revolution” has yet to come, calling on the governments not to make…
- Technology
US election: Meta extends ban on new political ads till later this week
San Francisco: Meta has announced to extend ban on new political ads on Facebook and Instagram even after the US presidential election on November 5. In its political ads policy update, Meta…
- Business
Meta receives 47,538 reports via Indian grievance mechanism for FB, Insta in Sep
New Delhi: Social media giant Meta received 33,422 reports through the Indian grievance mechanism for Facebook in the month of September, and responded to all of these reports. Of these reports, the…
- Business
WhatsApp bans more than 85L accounts in India in September
New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp banned more than 85 lakh “bad” accounts in India in the month of September for violating its policies. Between September 1-September 30, the company banned 8,584,000 accounts and…
- Technology
Facebook India’s net profit up 43 pc to Rs 505 crore in FY24
New Delhi: Facebook India saw its profit surge by 43 per cent in the last fiscal (FY24), riding on digital advertising and support services offered to its parent company Meta in the…
- Technology
Now filter chats with customised lists on WhatsApp
New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp on Thursday made it easier to organise messages filling up users’ inbox, which will help them keep track of conversations with family members, work colleagues, college friends and…
- News
Meta lays off employees across teams at WhatsApp, Instagram & more
New Delhi: Social media giant Meta has laid off employees across multiple teams, including at WhatsApp and Instagram, as part of an apparent restructuring exercise, reports said on Thursday. Meta did not…
