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Saturday, September 13, 2025
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Topic: Meta

Meta to begin large-scale layoffs this week that will affect thousands of employees

Meta's stock market value has reduced by $67 billion. This comes amid slowing global economic growth, competition, privacy changes from Apple & concerns about the metaverse.

Meta India chief Ajit Mohan steps down after 4 years to join rival Snap, says report

Manish Chopra, director and head of partnerships at Meta India, will take over on an interim capacity.

Instagram gets new tools to help content creators make money, allow users to buy their NFTs

Meta has been rolling out more features for users to make money on its social media apps as it competes for talent with TikTok & other platforms.

Delhi Police searches The Wire office, homes of editor Varadarajan, 3 journalists in Meta controversy

The searches came days after an FIR was lodged by BJP's Amit Malviya against the portal & its journalists in connection with reports on how Malviya had special privileges at Meta.

After Amit Malviya’s FIR, The Wire files police complaint against own former employee for ‘forgery, fabrication’

BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya had Saturday lodged an FIR against The Wire's founder and editors for forgery, cheating and defamation, in connection with the now retracted stories

Amazon fined 4 million roubles by Russian court for failing to delete ‘illegal’ content

The e-commerce giant had failed to delete content on drug use & 'propagandising suicide', illegal under Russian law. The court had earlier banned Meta as an 'extremist' organisation.

Russia adds Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to list of ‘terrorists and extremists’ organisations

A Moscow court in June rejected an appeal by Facebook parent Meta after it was found guilty of 'extremist activity' in Russia in March.

‘Echo chamber of anti-Rohingya content’: Amnesty says Meta’s algorithms stoked Myanmar violence

In a report, human rights body says several hateful Facebook posts against Rohingyas were shared widely & passed on without checks, flays Meta’s 'refusal to remediate' the community.

Despite pushback from social media intermediaries, govt’s grievance appellate committee stays

This committee will focus on the redressal of complaints against social media giants within 24 to 36 hours.

Trading platform META Exchange protect users, offers low-risk returns

META Exchange empowers people to not be marginalised by governments and financial institutions.

On Camera

Russian-style socialism dominated Nehru’s imagination. It was disastrous

It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.