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.
The outage was one of Facebook's longest and broadest failures in recent memory. Fixing the problem involved visiting a physical server facility and manually resetting some servers.
Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.
Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.
21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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