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Facebook’s independent Oversight Board announced yesterday it would start accepting requests to remove “harmful content” that users believe has been wrongly allowed to remain on the leading social network. The move has the potential to vastly expand the work of the so-called “supreme court” of Facebook, which up to now […]

A lawsuit has been filed against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, COO Sheryl Sandberg by a Muslim civil rights group for allegedly misleading the public about its content removal policy. The lawsuit has alleged that Facebook falsely claims of removing content that violates its policies, but it has not stopped anti-muslim […]

A Facebook data leak with details of 533 million users has been reported, and the company has now officially responded to it in a lengthy blogpost, stating that the data is old and was actually scraped back in September 2019. Earlier in January this year, researcher Alon Gal had posted on Twitter how a […]

Facebook said yesterday it was revamping its main user feeds to give people more control over what they see on the leading social network, with less reliance on algorithms. The change enables users to control and prioritise on what Facebook calls its “News Feed,” or the main element seen when […]

In a recently held U.S. Congressional Hearing with world’s social media giants, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, on Thursday (local time) shrugged off the questions raised on the concerns about Instagram use for kids. In a virtual meeting held titled U.S. Congressional Hearing, the big tech CEOs including Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Sundar Pichai of Google, and Jack […]

Facebook is going green, or rather, going with the green screen. The social network has launched a new filter that allows you to change the background of your photo or video. This new option is located in the “Story” tab. This new feature was discovered by Mamun Billah who shared the […]

The US Supreme Court yesterday declined to consider an appeal by Facebook that would have derailed a US$15 billion  lawsuit over whether it illegally tracked users about a decade ago. The nation’s top court issued an order denying a request by the leading social network to review a California federal […]

Benefitting its users in the field of personal promotions, American social media giant Facebook has launched a new online advertising campaign titled ‘The Good Ideas Deserve To Be Found’ to level up personalized ads for small businesses. Facebook’s head of brand marketing Andrew Stirk stated that the social networking giant is looking to […]

 Facebook yesterday said it is stepping up its fight against child abuse with new tools for spotting such content and tighter rules about what crosses the line. “Using our apps to harm children is abhorrent and unacceptable,” global head of safety Antigone Davis said in a blog post. “We are […]

Facebook yesterday said it is ramping up efforts to stem the spread of misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines, spread facts, and figure out who might be wary of getting the jab. The move includes banning groups which repeatedly spread misinformation and debunked claims about the virus and vaccines in general. The […]

Facebook said yesterday it began rolling out news feeds with less political subject matter in line with a plan outlined by chief Mark Zuckerberg to reduce inflammatory content. The leading social network said it would begin testing the change “for a small percentage of people” in Canada, Brazil and Indonesia […]