Facebook ought to focus on issues like cleaning up the swathe of medical and political misinformation on its sites, rather than building a new platform destined to host similar harms.
The company also plans a subscription video on-demand service. Trump has long signaled aspirations to start a social media company after he was booted from Twitter & Facebook.
The original app and service may remain unchanged in their branding. The name change would come at a time when Facebook is under fire from regulators, lawmakers & activists.
Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies online disinformation, says it has flagged many pages & groups linked with Sanatan Sanstha & Hindu Janajagruti Samiti to Facebook since last year.
Facebook will stop using data to link users' accounts, including Instagram, for advertising purposes unless explicitly asked, or unless people use features that tie the accounts together.
In a complaint filed with the US SEC, former employee & whistleblower Frances Haugen said Facebook lacks 'adequate systems' to deal with content issues internationally.
Facebook blamed network configuration glitches for immobilising a suite of apps from Messenger to Instagram and driving some of its 2.7 billion daily users to the competition.
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
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