Tag: Facebook

Facebook suffers biggest outage in years, triggers moans and soul searching

SILICON VALLEY: Facebook grappled Thursday with a widespread outage, forcing millions of people to taste life without the world's largest social media platform. It was...

Facebook’s messaging ambitions amount to much more than chat

CALIFORNIA: Facebook, already the leader in enabling you to share photos, videos and links, now wants to be a force in messaging, commerce, payments...

Facebook’s future is going big on private chats: Zuckerberg

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday the company would encrypt conversations on more of its messaging services and make them...

Police cracking down on ‘objectionable’ social media posts

LAHORE: The Punjab Police seems to have given a free hand to its officers to stalk and crack down on what they claim is ‘controversial’...

Facebook at 15: a titan with grown-up woes

MENLO PARK: Fifteen years after its founding, Facebook has made strides toward Mark Zuckerberg´s goal of connecting the world. But it has also made...

Facebook does not sell user data: Zuckerberg

Facebook co-founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday renewed his defence of the social network's business, arguing that targeting ads based on interests was...

Man sentenced to eight years for uploading women’s pictures to Facebook

PESHAWAR: A sessions court on Wednesday sentenced a man to eight years in jail for creating fake Facebook profiles and uploading pictures of women...

WhatsApp restricts message-forwarding to fight fake news

WhatsApp is limiting all its members to forwarding any single message up to five times in an effort to tackle the spread of false...

Pakistani women face most harassment on Facebook, WhatsApp: report

A report released by the Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) claims that complaints of online harassment by women in Pakistan are mostly in reference to...

Facebook to work with Pakistani govt to stop hate speech

Social media giant Facebook has expressed its desire to work with the government of Pakistan in a bid to counter hateful and extremist views. Facebook...

PM for robust mechanism to control fake news, hate content on...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday underscored the need for putting in place a robust mechanism to effectively check misuse of social media in...

Fawad seeks Facebook’s cooperation to counter hate speech, boost e-commerce

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Monday sought Facebook’s cooperation to counter hate speech and boost e-commerce in Pakistan. Fawad, in...

Facebook blocks highest number of posts in Pakistan: report

Facebook has blocked over 2,203 posts or videos in Pakistan for allegedly violating local laws, which is the highest number of content restrictions for...

Facebook says steep rise in data requests from Indian govt

NEW YORK: Facebook says there was a steep rise in data requests from India's government in the first half of this year as compared...

Man accused of organising ‘couple swap’ event arrested

Karachi police on Sunday claimed to have arrested a man who is accused of organising a ‘couple swap’ event on social media. The arrested person...

Facebook removes 8.7 million child pornographic photos

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook Inc said on Wednesday that company moderators during the last quarter removed 8.7 million user images of child nudity with the...

Facebook’s WhatsApp flooded with fake news in Brazil election

BRASILIA: Facebook Inc’s popular messaging service WhatsApp has become a political battleground in Brazil’s most polarized election in decades, raising concerns that it is...