Topic: Facebook

Meta has introduced StopNCII.org for users in India, which is used to stop non-consensual intimate images from being shared on Facebook and Instagram.

Campaign involved fake persona of a Swiss biologist, who in July posted on Facebook and Twitter that US was pressuring WHO scientists to blame the coronavirus on China.

Video shows group of Muslims including kids offering namaaz in a govt school, when police show up and start asking questions, individuals barge in and make hateful comments.

The post-Covid world is witnessing an explosion of the global digital services sector. This time it’s not just about software engineers. An increasing number of businesses, households and institutions around the world are now engaged in the digital gig economy in some form or the other. From yoga classes to accounting, the demand for services which can be met from anywhere in the world, has boomed after the pandemic. How can policymakers ensure that the Indian labour force and the economy benefit from the growth of the digitally connected global services market? In this new world, India has huge potential benefits. It has the world's largest and youngest workforce. The young are particularly good at picking up new technologies and ways of working. They take to the world of mobile apps and digital transactions quickly and are nimble at learning new skills. The English language is an added advantage. Compared to any...

The high-level committee is asking for tighter rules because current laws treating social media platforms as intermediaries have not done enough in terms of regulation.

The panel said it was 'worrying' that Facebook had no India-specific definition of what it categorises as hate speech.

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The social media giant has been using facial recognition since 2010 to encourage people to tag friends, family members or alert people in photos and videos that they’re in.

The metaverse is still very much an idea for the future, and Facebook is trying to use it to put out a forest fire in the present.