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Facebook has lost its bid to toss out a $50-million B.C. lawsuit from an alleged scam artist over an “imposter page” that used his name and likeness. Vancouver Island resident Timothy Craig Durkin filed suit against the social media giant in the summer of 2020, claiming that he had been …

Facebook’s “News Feed” is no more. After more than 15 years, the company is officially renaming its central feature, which will now be known simply as “Feed.” The company announced the name change in The change, which comes just months after Mark Zuckerberg announced he was renaming the company , …

Leah Nylen / Politico: In court docs, state AGs allege that Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai personally approved a secret 2018 deal that gave Facebook advantages in Google’s ad auctions  —  The states originally filed the suit against Google in December 2020 and updated that with a heavily redacted version of …

A deeper investigation into Facebook’s lack of controls to prevent misinformation and abuse in languages other than English is likely to leave people “even more shocked” about the potential harms caused by the social media firm, whistleblower Frances Haugen told Reuters. Haugen, a former product manager at Meta Platforms Inc’s …

Facebook’s former product manager turned whistleblower Frances Haugen has revealed that her refuge in Puerto Rico is “fine for the foreseeable future” because of a well-timed investment in cryptocurrency. The whistleblower who’s made headlines recently for calling out Facebook’s “betrayal of democracy”, made her crypto investment known in an interview …

New Delhi: EU antitrust regulators have opened an investigation into Facebook’s marketplace. The social network will be probed to find out if it flouts any rules of the European Union by using advertisers’ data to compete with them in classified ads. The investigation has been announced after rivals complained to authorities …

By ANI WASHINGTON: American technology conglomerate Facebook has partnered with the Indian government to roll out a vaccine finder tool on its mobile app in India, which will help people identify places nearby to get vaccinated. According to Mashable, earlier this week, Facebook announced a USD 10 million grant for …

While India battles with a bigger Covid crisis in 2021, people have been channeling their anger and anxiety on social media informing about the mismanagement by administration and shortage of Covid essentials in various states. While the country also witnessed the positive side of social media when good Samaritans came …

Facebook Oversight Board said on Friday it had extended the timeline for deciding whether to uphold former US President Donald Trump’s indefinite suspension from Facebook and Instagram. The board, created by Facebook in response to criticism over its handling of problematic content, wrote in a tweet that it would announce …

In a social media age when parents are trying to minimise the screen time for kids, Facebook has announced developing a new Instagram app just for kids. Facebook is working on a version of its Instagram app for kids under 13, who are technically not allowed to use the app …