Jan 13, 2025, at 09:20 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Union Minister Ashwini Vaisnaw Monday trashed Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg's claim on the results of the Lok Sabha polls last year where he claimed that most incumbent governments, including India, lost elections in 2024.
Centre lambasts X over multiple hoax bomb threats to Indian airlines
Oct 24, 2024, at 05:52 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Centre Wednesday lambasted X, previously known as Twitter, after a series of hoax bomb threats to several airlines were posted through the microblogging platform.
Meta rolls out teen Instagram accounts with enhanced privacy, parental controls for underage users
Sep 18, 2024, at 06:06 am
Meta Platforms is rolling out teen accounts with enhanced privacy and parental controls for Instagram accounts of users under 18 to address growing concerns over the negative impact of social media.
Facebook, Instagram back after brief outage in India, other countries
Mar 06, 2024, at 04:41 am
Meta's social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger services in India and several other countries were restored after a brief outage on Tuesday evening.
After IT minister's warning over wrong map of India, WhatsApp deletes tweet, apologizes
Jan 01, 2023, at 05:25 am
New Delhi/IBNS: After Union IT Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar’s subtle warning, messaging platform WhatsApp deleted a graphic, posted on its Twitter handle, that showed an incorrect map of India and issued an apology.
Mass layoffs in US leave majority of Indians on H-1B visas impacted: Report
Nov 23, 2022, at 04:15 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Mass layoffs in the United States have left many Indians with little time to search for jobs and so much so that many might have to leave the country.
Nov 11, 2022, at 03:58 am
San Francisco/ IBNS: As Facebook-owner Meta has started to lay off 11,000 employees, a communications manager, who is on maternity leave, found an email stating she is laid off when she woke up at 3 am to feed her three-month-old daughter.
Oct 30, 2022, at 02:25 am
BJP leader and the party's IT cell chief Amit Malviya Saturday filed a criminal complaint against news website The Wire and its senior editors accusing them of forgery and cheating with the aim to tarnish his image.
WhatsApp restored after long global outage
Oct 25, 2022, at 09:33 pm
Messaging application WhatsApp has been restored after it suffered an outage for more than an hour Tuesday.
Facebook agrees to settle CA data privacy lawsuit
Aug 27, 2022, at 11:48 pm
New York/IBNS: Meta’s Facebook has in-principle agreed to settle a lawsuit in the San Francisco federal court, which seeks damages for letting third parties, including Cambridge Analytica (CA), access private data of users, a court filing showed.
Assam Police launched the Digital Literacy program nationally from Guwahati in association with Meta
May 20, 2022, at 10:48 pm
Guwahati: With an aim to create a safer online environment, Meta has partnered with Assam Police to launch a Digital Literacy and Awareness program for adolescents and youth in Assam at Royal Global University in Guwahati on Friday.
Meta shuts down video dating service Sparked
Jan 15, 2022, at 03:29 am
New Delhi/UNI: Meta Platform Inc. is shutting down Sparked - a video dating service it has been testing, the company said in an email to its users.
Meta announces safety initiatives for India to protect women
Dec 04, 2021, at 07:29 am
Meta, formerly Facebook, has announced a series of initiatives to ensure safe online experience for Indian women across its platforms.