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Announcing the deal, Facebook said it wanted to link up the "power of WhatsApp", its messaging subsidiary, with Jio

Facebook takes 5.7 billion dollar stake in Jio digital platforms

The deal is one of the biggest foreign investments made in India and will give the US social media giant a 10-percent stake

22 Apr 2020 11:47 AM

Facebook made the aggregated survey information from its users available at https://dataforgood.fb.com/covid-symptoms-map/, while the data for the all responses including from Google users will be published on Carnegie Mellon page covidcast.cmu.edu soon.

Coronavirus 'heat map' visualises spread of COVID-19 from Facebook, Google user surveys

Carnegie Mellon researchers said they received about one million responses a week from Facebook users, and 600,000 from Google users.

20 Apr 2020 8:55 PM

Granted that Google and Facebook give news content legs. They take the story beyond the geographical limits of the newspaper’s reach. But if the disseminator makes nearly all the profits and shares mere peanuts with the producer of the content, how long will news production survive?

Why Google and Facebook should be paying news publishers worldwide

Governments of France, Spain and Australia have ordered the giant aggregators to pay publishers for content, but will the duopoly accede?

20 Apr 2020 3:54 PM

In the US capital Washington DC, one restaurant is selling the "Fauci Pouchy" -- cocktails in a pouch with a straw, for pickup and delivery, and "they're selling out like crazy". The original is made with vodka, lemonade, elderflower and grapefruit juice. (Photos | AFP)

US' top covid doc Anthony Fauci becomes pop icon with Facebook fan club, T-shirts, coffee-mugs

The Dr Anthony Fauci Fan Club has over 79,000 members, a video game called Fauci's Revenge has his eyes shooting lasers defeating the virus

19 Apr 2020 4:42 PM

The Swiss-based Libra association, which includes Facebook and a variety of partners, said a shift to using individual currencies was made after hearing comments and complaints on its original proposal.

Facebook-backed Libra returns with new 'stablecoins' linked to single currency like Dollar or Euro

Central bank officials and others have expressed concern about a blow to their sovereignty from Libra coins pegged to a basket of currencies

16 Apr 2020 9:06 PM

Facebook-backed Libra back with new 'stablecoins' linked to single currency like Dollar or Euro

Central bank officials and others have expressed concern about a blow to their sovereignty from Libra coins pegged to a basket of currencies

16 Apr 2020 9:06 PM

Conspiracy theories about the origin of the virus and the vaccines being developed to prevent it still pop up daily on Facebook. (Photo | AP)

As coronavirus hoaxes get thousands of views, Facebook to warn users who 'liked' such posts

Despite efforts to curb misinformation, posts or videos that promote unverified treatments and cures have raked in thousands of views.

16 Apr 2020 8:29 PM

Videoconferencing has become de rigueur for work and social life as people around the world hunker down at home to avoid spreading the deadly coronavirus. (Photo | Microsoft Teams)

Microsoft's videoconferencing app in high demand amid Zoom security concerns

Microsoft said a new record of 2.7 billion "meeting minutes" in a single day had been reached on Teams

10 Apr 2020 4:50 PM

In addition to Facebook, LeadCloak's software also targeted a number of other technology companies including Google, Oath, WordPress, Shopify, and others. (Photo | AFP)

Indian techie running deceptive coronavirus ads, fake news on Facebook, Instagram faces legal action

Basant Gajjar's company LeadCloak provided ad-cloaking software to sneak fake news and scams past Facebook and Instagram's ad review system

10 Apr 2020 4:23 PM

The update has come to India first, in an indication of how widely the platform is being used to spread unverified information in the country. It will soon be rolled out globally.

WhatsApp limits forwards to one chat at a time in India to halt spread of coronavirus misinformation

The messaging app earlier restricted forwards to five chats but it did not prove effective enough against the spread of fake news

07 Apr 2020 2:04 PM

Ashley Bullard, left, sits on the porch of her family's rural home in North Sandwich, New Hampshire, as her daughters Raven, center, a senior in high school, and Willow, right, a freshman at Brandeis University, try to complete their classwork from home during the virus outbreak on a very limited internet connection, Thursday, March 26, 2020. In the town of 1,200, broadband is scarce. (Photo | AP)

What's life like with poor broadband in a stay-at-home situation? These small towns in the US tell you

Tens of millions of people are left out, largely because phone and cable companies hesitate to invest in far-flung rural areas

01 Apr 2020 1:36 PM

The free and open-source prototype Private Kit app was developed by teams at MIT and Harvard as well as software engineers of Facebook and Uber who worked on it in their free time.

Join efforts to trace the coronavirus route map in your locality by downloading this app

The MIT prototype Private Kit: Safe Paths app works by sharing location data between users, without revealing who the users are.

23 Mar 2020 5:46 PM

The developers’ services will be offered free by Facebook to government health organisations and UN health agencies.

Facebook helps government, UN health organisations use Messenger effectively in coronavirus response

The social media giant has also invited developers to build messaging solutions for access to accurate information on the coronavirus

23 Mar 2020 2:38 PM

Pop-up messages directing users to credible coronavirus COVID-19 resources are displayed when one opens YouTube.

After Facebook, now YouTube takes measures to promote authoritative coronavirus content

The move is the latest by technology platforms to curb rumours and hoaxes about the pandemic

20 Mar 2020 9:05 PM

Real-time updates from national health authorities and global organisations such as the World Health Organisation, as well as vetted helpful articles, videos and posts about social distancing and preventing the spread of COVID-19 will be on the top of News Feed as seen here (Photo | Facebook Newsroom)

Facebook rolling out updated News Feed with fact-checked coronavirus info pinned on top

The feature will be available today in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, UK and US, and will be expanded to more countries in the coming days

19 Mar 2020 5:13 PM

Brussels’ warning comes less than a month after US officials said thousands of Russian-linked social media accounts had embarked on a coordinated effort to spread alarm about the virus.

Fake news about coronavirus being spread by Russia to worsen crisis in US, Europe, says EU

An internal EU document warned that pro-Kremlin media outlets were promoting disinformation to undermine trust in healthcare systems

18 Mar 2020 10:09 PM

Pressure has mounted on Silicon Valley to use their expertise to fight the deadly virus, after roughly 50 scientists signed an open letter last week calling on them to act

Privacy concerns raised as Facebook, Google in talks with Washington to track infections

The use of personal data is highly sensitive especially after 2011 when the NSA was found collecting phone records without permission.

18 Mar 2020 8:44 PM

Facebook is also awarding USD 100 million in grants and ad credits to assist small businesses. (Photo | Pixabay)

Facebook staff to get USD 1,000 bonus as they work from home amid corona outbreak

Employees will also get an automatic ‘exceeds expectations’ rating on their performance review

18 Mar 2020 4:41 PM

Individual users on social media, rather than rogue state players, are the ones driving the spread of misinformation. (Photo | howtostartablogonline.net)

Beware of fake news, you can't self-test for coronavirus

Social media is filling up with fake news on COVID-19 despite steps taken by Facebook, Google, and Twitter to curb misleading information

13 Mar 2020 7:20 PM

Seemingly innocuous posts such as this one were being shared by a network linked to the Russian Internet Research Agency, Facebook said. (Photo | Facebook)

Russia-linked Facebook accounts targeting US audience removed

Facebook removed 49 accounts, 69 pages and 85 Instagram accounts with a total of nearly 300,000 followers

13 Mar 2020 5:54 PM

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