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Meta Launches Campaign With Centre To Combat Online Scams In India

October 18, 2024 admin

Meta unveiled its two-month-long campaign at a launch event in the capital. New Delhi: Meta has launched its safety campaign ‘Scam se Bacho’ in collaboration with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) to educate people on how to stay safe from…

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How The Internet Went From Being Fun To Frustrating

September 17, 2024 admin

AI’s ability to automate content has flooded the internet with low-quality material (representational) When it comes to our experience of the internet, “the times, they are a-changin’”, as Bob Dylan would say. You can’t quite recall how, but the internet certainly feels different these days. To some, it is “less fun and less informative” than…

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Biden Administration “Repeatedly Pressured” Meta: Mark Zuckerberg In Letter

August 27, 2024 admin

New Delhi: In a letter to the US Congress, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has alleged that the US government under Joe Biden “repeatedly pressured” Meta to censor certain content on its platforms. In the letter addressed to US House of Representatives, Mr Zuckerberg said that the platform had to make some changes, that “with the…

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Meta Decides To Suspend Its Generative AI Tools in Brazil

July 18, 2024 admin

Meta suspended the services in response to the Brazilian government Sao Paulo: Meta Platforms said on Wednesday it decided to suspend use of generative artificial intelligence tools in Brazil in response to the government’s objections to its new privacy policy regarding personal data and AI. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT With more than 200 million people, Brazil…

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Meta To End Ban On Word ‘Martyr’ After Year-Long Review

July 2, 2024 admin

Meta is the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. (Representational) Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it would lift its blanket ban on the word “shaheed”, or “martyr” in English, after a year-long review by its oversight board found the social media giant’s approach was “overbroad”. The company has been criticized for years over its handling…

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Meta Charged For Breaching EU Tech Rules Over Pay Or Consent Model

July 1, 2024 admin

Meta said its model complied with a ruling from Europe’s top court. (Representational) Meta Platforms was charged by EU antitrust regulators on Monday for failing to comply with landmark tech rules as they took aim at the US company’s newly introduced pay or consent advertising model, already the target of privacy regulators and activists’ ire….

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Instagram Suffer Major Outage Globally, Including In India

June 29, 2024 admin

About 58 per cent reported problems with the feed. New Delhi: Meta-owned Instagram on Saturday suffered a major outage globally, including in India, as thousands of users were unable to load Reels and access other options. As per website outage tracking website Downdetector, over 6,500 users reported issues with accessing the platform in India at…

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Meta Took Down Over 17 Million Objectionable Content In India In April

June 2, 2024 admin

Meta shared the data in its monthly report. (representational) New Delhi: Meta said that it took down over 11.6 million pieces of bad content across 13 policies for Facebook and more than 5.4 million pieces of objectionable content across 12 policies for Instagram in India in April. In April, Facebook received 17,124 reports through the…

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Kota Cops Tie Up With Facebook-Parent Meta To Prevent Student Suicides

May 28, 2024 admin

Meta was happy to oblige but said they cannot specifically concentrate only on Kota, cops said. Kota: The Kota police have tied up with Meta to identify students exhibiting suicidal tendencies on the company’s social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, allowing for their timely intervention. Since the collaboration a week back, the police claim they…

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