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Will Name Change Erase Faceook's Toxic Reality?

Adversarial Harmful Networks -- India Case Study, cited in Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen's SEC complaints, revealed, among other things, that Facebook was a preferred platform for...

Hate speech: Parl panel on IT to call FB whistleblowers to depose before it

Some members of a parliamentary panel looking into the issue of hate speech on Facebook on Monday expressed the view that whistle-blowers Sophie Zhang and Frances Haugen, who have flagged bias and...

Govt seeks details of algorithm, processes used by Facebook

Amid allegations of Facebook's system fuelling hate speech and fake news, the government has asked the United States-based social media giant to provide details of algorithms and processes used by...

Facebook, WhatsApp back online; Zuckerberg apologises over outage

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger are back online after the popular social media platforms suffered a massive global outage that lasted almost six hours, affecting tens of millions of...

Did FB fail to stop hate-filled user content in India?

Internal documents at Facebook show "a struggle with misinformation, hate speech and celebrations of violence" in India, the company's biggest market, with researchers at the social media giant...

Facebook renamed as 'Meta' in rebranding exercise

Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday announced that the company he founded is rebranding itself as Meta. Photograph: Mark Zuckerberg/Instagram The change comes with a new...

Day 15: What's hot at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics

IMAGE: Ivanka Trump high fives a spectator after the United States of America beat Sweden in their Men's Gold Medal Curling match next to former Olympic US bobsledder Shauna Rohbock, left, at...