Tag: Facebook
Facebook To Help 50M People Get Vaccines, To Add Labels To Fake Posts
In an effort to help 50 million people get Covid-19 vaccines, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday announced new tools, along with expanding efforts to address Covid-19 vaccine misinformation by adding labels to Facebook and Instagram posts that discuss the vaccines. ....
Fake Romance, Influencer Scams Thriving On Instagram
Facebook-owned Instagram has seen a surge in frauds on its platform that were up by 50 per cent since the pandemic began, and scams related to romance, phishing and influencer sponsors top the chart, a new report said on Tuesday. ....
Centre Asks Social Media To Remove Content Referring To 'Indian Covid Variant'
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has asked all social media platforms to immediately remove all content that refers to or implies "Indian variant" of coronavirus. ....
Twitter, Facebook May Not Be Able To Operate In India From May 26
The deadline to comply with the new legal rules meant for big social media platforms, which were issued by the government three months ago, is ending on Tuesday, threatening the operations of the likes of Twitter in India. ....
Twitter May Roll Out Facebook-like Emoji Reactions To Tweets
Micro-blogging platform Twitter is reportedly working on a Facebook-like tweet reactions view that includes adding some new emojis. ....
Facebook Purges Several Pak-originated Malicious Accounts, Pages
Facebook has taken down several accounts, Pages and Groups that originated in Pakistan, and targeted primarily domestic audiences in addition to also focusing on English, Arabic and Pashto-speaking audiences globally. ....
Oversight Board Hails Move As Facebook Bans Former US President Donald Trump For 2 Years
Facebook has suspended US former President Donald Trump from its platforms for two years, the maximum penalty under a newly revealed set of rules for suspending public figures, a move that was hailed by the independent Oversight Board which had upheld the earlier decision by the social network to ban Trump. ....
Former US President Donald Trump Welcomes Nigeria's Ban On Twitter, Says More Countries Should Follow Suit
Former US president Donald Trump, banned on all key social media platforms, has welcomed the Nigeria ban on Twitter, saying more countries should do the same. ....
Former US President Trump Sues Social Media Firms With 'little Legal Substance'
Frustrated at the social media ban, former US President Donald Trump has sued Twitter, Facebook and Google-owned YouTube, saying they violated his First Amendment rights by restricting him from their respective platforms. Media reports, however, said on Thursday that the lawsuits are all sound and fury with "little legal substance to back them up". ....
China Influencing World Using Army Of Fake Social Media Accounts, But Why?
The Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong, at a recent meeting with Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi (now appointed as the Minister of Transport), said Covid-19 is a matter of science and not to politicise it, despite the fact that evidence proves beyond all doubt that the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has engaged in world politics using fake accounts and dismissing everything related to coronavirus as 'not their baby'. ....
