Meta sees India as a “priority market” with “limitless” possibilities buoyed by macroeconomic growth, digital infrastructure and the popularity of its apps like Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, the social media giant’s India head Sandhya Devanathan said. In an interview with PTI, Devanathan, who took over the leadership role in January…
Meta is being accused of endangering lives by blocking news links in Canada at a crucial moment when thousands have fled their homes and are desperate for wildfire updates that once would have been shared widely on Facebook. The situation “is dangerous,” said Kelsey Worth, 35, one of nearly 20,000…
Meta Platforms is breaking European data privacy rules in Norway, the country’s data regulator told a court on Wednesday, in a case that could have wider European implications. Meta has been fined one million crowns (roughly Rs. 8 crore) per day since August 14 for breaching users’ privacy by harvesting…
Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it was launching the web version of its new text-first social media platform Threads, in a bid to retain professional users and gain an edge over rival X, formerly Twitter. Threads’ users will be able to access the microblogging platform by logging-in to its website…
Meta Platforms will ask a court in Norway on Tuesday to stop a fine the country’s data regulator has imposed on the owner of Facebook and Instagram for breaching users’ privacy, in a case that could have wider European implications. Since August 14, Meta Platforms has been fined 1 million…
The Canadian government on Friday demanded that Meta lift a “reckless” ban on domestic news from its platforms to allow people to share information about wildfires in the west of the country. Meta started blocking news on its Facebook and Instagram platforms for all users in Canada this month in response to a…
Meta Platforms is asking a court in Norway to stop a fine the Nordic country’s data regulator imposed on the owner of Facebook and Instagram for breaching users’ privacy, according to a court filing. Meta Platforms will be fined 1 million crowns ($97,700) per day from August 14 over privacy…
Twitter was recently rebranded as X by owner Elon Musk. On Friday, Musk claimed that the social media platform reached “new heights” with more than 540 million monthly users as compared to the reported 229 million monthly active users in May 2022. Musk took over the site in November 2022,…
Meta Platforms offered to curb the use of competitors’ advertising data for its Facebook Marketplace online classified service in an attempt to settle an EU antitrust investigation but regulators gave it the cold shoulder, people familiar with the matter said. Its offer also included limiting the use of advertising data…
Threads — the popular microblogging platform launched by Facebook parent Meta earlier this month — will implement rate limits following an increase in spam attacks on the platform. Rate limits are an artificial ceiling on the number of times a user can interact with a platform within a certain period,…
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