Facebook's election war room: Round-the-clock vigil to check fake news, voter manipulation tactics
Mon, Apr 08, 2019
Facebook has already brought in transparency initiatives for political ads, teamed up with third party fact checkers for India, and rolled out initiatives like Candidate Connect (a voter outreach feature that allows Lok Sabha candidates to record 20 second videos).
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Lok Sabha election 2019: Facebook removing 1 million accounts a day
Mon, Apr 08, 2019
With the first phase of Lok Sabha polls just days away, Facebook on Monday said it is removing or blocking about one million abusive accounts a day with the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) tools.
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In a first, Facebook acts like cops, visits users' homes to verify posts
Sun, Apr 07, 2019
Facebook, already facing the election heat in India, is busy doing something never heard of: Sending its representatives to users' home to verify if the post with political content was actually written by them.
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Rs 10 crore! Political parties spend this on Facebook ads, BJP supporters leads
Sun, Apr 07, 2019
With elections drawing closer, campaigning on social media platform Facebook is also picking up pace with political parties and their supporters spending well over Rs 10 crore on advertisements in February-March this year.
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WhatsApp users will get more control in group chats
Sat, Apr 06, 2019
WhatsApp was expected to add a new Group Invitation feature to its app, which was recently spotted in the Android beta version. With this feature, a group admin will first have to take your permission to add you to any WhatsApp group. Now, it seems that the Facebook-owned company is finally adding the invite system feature. WhatsApp has announced that new privacy settings for Groups on Android will be added, giving users more control over their experience.
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Facebook's ads system leans on stereotypes for housing, job ads: study
Thu, Apr 04, 2019
The researchers advertised lumber job ads on Facebook and found that the algorithms delivered the postings to mostly white men, while secretary positions mostly went to black women. That held true even when lumber ads pictured black people, and the secretarial jobs white people.
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Facebook looks to place restrictions on who can go live after Christchurch attack
Sun, Mar 31, 2019
Facebook Inc Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said on Friday the company was looking to place restrictions on who can go live on its platform based on certain criteria in the aftermath of the Christchurch massacre.
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Instagram to change name, re-brand itself
Fri, Mar 29, 2019
Earlier in March, Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger spoke at the 2019 South By South West (SXSW) Conference and Festivals at Austin, Texas, since leaving Facebook last September, sore about losing independence within the Zuckerberg-led company.
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Facebook bans white nationalism, white separatism on its social media platforms
Thu, Mar 28, 2019
Facebook, Twitter Inc and Alphabet Inc`s YouTube have been under pressure to remove white supremacist and neo-Nazi content from their platforms, along with fake news and other types of abusive posts.
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