Come together to stop spread of suicide content, TikTok urges Facebook, Google, Snapchat, others
It is proposed that nine social media firms speedily identify violent, graphic content, including suicide, and swiftly notify the others.
Facebook launches information centres to get people to vote to make up for its role in 2016
Facebook is seeking to show that it is no longer a means of massive disinformation as it was ahead of major votes in 2016.
Content goes by Facebook community standards, not ideology, India head says about Ankhi Das controversy
Ajit Mohan said the content team is guided only by community standards enforced globally and is independent of the local policy team.
US government not upfront about hackers targeting elections, so Congress relies on tech firms for alerts
With the Trump administration blocking what Congress learns about election threats, private companies are called upon to fill the breach.
As things get heated on internal message boards, Facebook mulls moderating employees' posts
A year ago on getting complaints about heated, abusive posts, Google told staff to be responsible and thoughtful on internal message boards.
Australia's pay-for-news law: Facebook, Google won't have to give out user data, says regulator
The final draft of the bill could be introduced into Parliament in late October.
Freedom and bias: How Facebook is facing a reckoning
This year marks Facebook's growth from innocence to experience
Google Glass may not have taken off but Facebook eyes AR space with Ray-Ban smart glasses
“Imagine a pair of glasses that add a 3D layer of contextually relevant, meaningful information on top of the physical world,” Facebook said
Facebook India chief Ajit Mohan gives hate speech hearing a miss
Last week, a Delhi Assembly panel had summoned him to determine if the social networking site deliberately ignored instances of hate speech.
Facebook not doing enough to stop election manipulation, says fired employee
She said she found multiple blatant attempts by foreign national governments to abuse the platform on vast scales to mislead the citizenry.