The Social Network

Facebook Launches Media Campaign to Defend Targeted Advertisements in Spat With Apple

Agence France-Presse | Friday February 26, 2021

Facebook is not backing down in its fight with Apple over a new privacy feature that could curb tracking needed for the social network's targeted advertisements, launching a major media campaign to defend a practice that is a big revenue generator.

Facebook Blocks Medical Data Information Shared By Apps

World News | Agence France-Presse | Saturday February 20, 2021

Facebook has started blocking sensitive health information that third-party apps had been sharing with the social network in violation of its own rules, said New York officials who investigated the situation.

Parler Relaunches After Being Forced Offline Over US Capitol Violence Incitements

Reuters | Tuesday February 16, 2021

Parler, the social network platform popular with supporters of Donald Trump, announced it had relaunched after being forced offline over incitements to violence on the platform.

Prasar Bharati CEO's Twitter Handle Among Accounts Suspended

India News | Reported by Akhilesh Sharma, Edited by Divyanshu Dutta Roy | Monday February 1, 2021

The Twitter account of public broadcaster Prasar Bharati's chief executive was among those blocked by the social networking company on Monday amid a broad sweep of users found using a hashtag deemed inappropriate by the government.

Facebook Oversight Board Overturns Four Content Takedowns in First Ruling

Associated Press | Friday January 29, 2021

Facebook’s quasi-independent oversight board issued its first rulings, overturning four out of five decisions by the social network to take down questionable content.

App Store Feud Heats Up As Facebook, Apple Chiefs Unleash Barbs

World News | Agence France-Presse | Friday January 29, 2021

A feud between tech giants heated up Thursday as Apple's chief executive implied Facebook's business model promotes disinformation and violence, while the social network reportedly prepares an antitrust lawsuit against Apple.

Facebook to Stop Recommending Political Groups to Users

Reuters | Thursday January 28, 2021

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said the social network will no longer recommend

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Hits Apple Over Privacy as the Social Media Company’s Quarterly Results Soar

Associated Press | Thursday January 28, 2021

Facebook capped a tumultuous 2020 with soaring earnings in the final quarter, but the company forecast challenges in 2021 that include a coming privacy update by Apple that could limit the social network's advertisement targeting capabilities.

Facebook To Stop Recommending Political Groups To Users Globally

World News | Agence France-Presse | Thursday January 28, 2021

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday said the social network will no longer recommend politics-themed groups to users, a measure already taken in the US due to election tensions.

Apple Chief Tim Cook Says Parler Could Return To App Store With Reforms

World News | Agence France-Presse | Monday January 18, 2021

Parler, the social network popular among conservatives, could return to Apple's App Store if it changes how it moderates posts on the platform, the tech giant's CEO Tim Cook said Sunday.

Facebook Has No Plans to Lift Donald Trump Ban, COO Sheryl Sandberg Says

Reuters | Tuesday January 12, 2021

Facebook's operations chief Sheryl Sandberg said the world's largest social network had no plans to lift its block on the accounts of US President Donald Trump, as the company clamped down on a phrase that has become a rallying cry for the president's supporters.

80TB of Parler Posts, Videos, and Other Data Leaked by Security Researchers

Gopal Sathe | Tuesday January 12, 2021

Parler, the social network popular among US President Trump supports, has just been taken off Google Play, the App Store, and taken down by Amazon Web Services. Before the takedown, security researchers have taken a huge data dump from the site, totalling around 80TB

Parler Goes Offline After Google, Apple, Amazon Ban Over US Capitol Siege

World News | Reuters | Sunday January 10, 2021

Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc have suspended Parler from their respective App Store and web hosting service, saying the social networking service that many right-leaning social media users have flocked to has not taken adequate measures to prevent the spread of posts inciting violence.

Facebook's Defence As Farmers' Protest Page Was Briefly Taken Down

India News | Reported by Roobina Mongia, Edited by Arun Nair | Monday December 21, 2020

Facebook today clarified that an error on its part caused the blocking of the accounts used by farmers protesting against the government's new agricultural laws on Sunday. The social networking site said its automated systems flagged the pages of Kisan Ekta Morcha as "spam" following increased activity, although the group's Instagram account (owned...

Mukesh Ambani, Mark Zuckerberg Discuss The WhatsApp-Jio Impact On India

Business | Edited by Sandeep Singh | Tuesday December 15, 2020

Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani had a conversation with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the social network's Fuel for India 2020 event