Meta Restores Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp After Outage Reports From Several Users

Meta Restores Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp After Outage Reports From Several Users

Meta Platforms said on Friday that services on its social media apps Facebook and Instagram were restored, more than two hours after an outage that affected thousands of users. At one point, nearly 20,000 users in total said they were having trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram and Meta’s messaging service…

Meta Rolls Back Policy to Curb COVID-19 Misinformation on Facebook, Instagram

Meta Rolls Back Policy to Curb COVID-19 Misinformation on Facebook, Instagram

Meta Platforms said on Friday a policy that was put in place to curb the spread of misinformation related to COVID-19 on Facebook and Instagram would no longer be in effect globally. Social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter came under immense pressure to tackle misinformation related to the…

Meta Verified Introduced in India for Mobile Apps for Rs. 699 per Month

Facebook Acted on Over 27 Million Pieces of Content in India for Guideline Violations in April

Social media giant Meta’s Facebook took action against 41 percent of complaints it received from users and Instagram against over 54 percent of grievances raised by users in April 2023, according to the company’s latest India Monthly Report. As per the category-wise information disclosed by Meta, Facebook “actioned on” less…

Instagram Could Release Text-Based App to Rival Against Twitter by June 2023: Report

Instagram Could Release Text-Based App to Rival Against Twitter by June 2023: Report

Meta Platforms‘ Instagram is planning to release a text-based app that will compete with Twitter and may debut as soon as June, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The Facebook parent is testing the product with influencers and some creators, according to the report. The…

WhatsApp Faces Penalty in Russia on Accusations of Failing to Delete Banned Content: Report

WhatsApp Faces Penalty in Russia on Accusations of Failing to Delete Banned Content: Report

Messenger service WhatsApp faces a maximum fine of RUB 4 million (nearly Rs. 41 lakh) after Russia accused it of failing to delete banned content, state-owned news agency RIA reported on Friday, citing a Moscow court. Although WhatsApp’s parent company Meta Platforms was last year banned in Russia as an “extremist”…

Meta India’s Director and Head of Partnerships Manish Chopra Announces Resignation

Meta India’s Director and Head of Partnerships Manish Chopra Announces Resignation

Meta‘s Director and Head of Partnerships in India Manish Chopra has announced his resignation from the company in a LinkedIn post. Chopra joined Meta in 2019 and has been serving as its director and head of partnerships in India. The Director and Head of Partnerships posted a message of his…

Former ByteDance Executive Says China Had ‘Supreme Access’ to All Data

Former ByteDance Executive Says China Had ‘Supreme Access’ to All Data

A former head of engineering at Bytedance in the United States has said the company discharged him after he voiced concern to management that it was taking user content from other platforms, mainly Instagram and Snapchat. The dispute comes at a time when ByteDance-owned app TikTok faces growing calls for…

Meta India’s Director and Head of Partnerships Manish Chopra Announces Resignation

Meta Hired Team Responsible for Building AI Networking Tech at Graphcore

Meta Platforms has hired an Oslo-based team that until late last year was building artificial-intelligence networking technology at British chip unicorn Graphcore. A Meta spokesperson confirmed the hirings in response to a request for comment, after Reuters identified 10 people whose LinkedIn profiles said they worked at Graphcore until December 2022…