Facebook “misplaced” guidance on an important exemption to its rules on dangerous individuals and organisations for three years, the company’s independent oversight board said on Thursday. The board, which was created by the company to rule on a small slice of contentious content decisions, said it had overturned Facebook’s original removal of an Instagram post
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Short-video sharing app TikTok said on Friday it will use more automation to remove videos from its platform that violate its community guidelines. At present, videos uploaded to the platform go through technology tools that work to recognize and flag any potential violations which are then reviewed by a safety team member. If a violation
Instagram is rolling out a new feature to let users temporarily limit unwanted comments and messages they receive from groups of users to fight abuse and harassment on the platform. Called ‘Limits,’ the new addition by the Facebook-owned company is initially at a testing stage and is limited to some users. Instagram will recommend groups
WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new feature that will enable users to send images without compressing them too much. The new feature is still under development and hasn’t been enabled for beta testing users. This is in addition to video quality settings, that will also enable users to send videos on WhatsApp with minimum
WhatsApp users often face a lot of trouble while switching phones, especially when switching between operating systems. The social media platform is reportedly working on a solution to ease that process, but, until then, there are workarounds that users will have to make do with. At the moment, WhatsApp allows users to keep their account
Video calling application Google Meet recently added new video filters, effects, and augmented reality masks for personal calls on iOS and Android. Google tweeted on July 7 that the new features are available via the sparkle icon at the bottom right of the video feed during a call, which brings up a carousel of different effects
For WhatsApp users, there are certain ways to figure out if someone has blocked you on the instant messaging app. WhatsApp has been ambiguous about telling its users if they have been blocked as it aims to maintain the privacy of users. The messaging app doesn’t explicitly tell you if you’re blocked by someone but
The Centre on Monday told the Delhi High Court that social media giant Twitter has failed to comply with India’s new IT Rules, which could lead to losing its immunity conferred under the Information Technology(IT) Act. The Centre, in an affidavit filed in the high court, said as per the details obtained from Twitter’s website
Google has removed nine apps from its Play store after researchers showed that they sneakily stole users’ Facebook login credentials. The apps were hidden under names that sounded like everyday utility tools and apps. These include Rubbish Cleaner and Horoscope Daily. According to a report, the malicious apps had approximately 5.9 million combined downloads on
A social media site launched on Sunday by Jason Miller, a senior adviser to former US President Donald Trump, was briefly hacked, and more than 500,000 people have registered to use the site, Miller said. Gettr, a Twitter-style platform with posts and trending topics, has advertised itself on the Google and Apple app stores as “a
We have often seen politicians busy staring at their phones or tablets even when an important debate or a discussion over a proposed law is underway. The issue is, of course, not confined to any specific country’s political representatives. Interestingly, now there’s a software that keeps a check on politicians with such behaviour. The tool,
Instagram is developing a new feature called “Exclusive Stories.” This feature looks to offer access of creators’ stories only to fans – possibly a term used for paid subscribers. Exclusive Stories has leaked in several screenshots, and Instagram has also reportedly confirmed that it is testing it internally and is under development. This comes after
Australia’s competition watchdog said on Thursday it issued draft proposals to authorise regional newspaper industry group, Country Press Australia, to negotiate with Google and Facebook for payments for news content on their platforms. Country Press Australia (CPA) is seeking authorisation to allow its members to hammer out a payments deal with Google and Facebook for use
A Hindu group has filed a complaint with police against Twitter’s country head for showing regions outside a map of India on its website, kickstarting an investigation in a fresh headache for the US tech firm. A map on Twitter’s careers page showed the Jammu and Kashmir region, which is claimed by both India and
A US judge on Monday dismissed federal and state antitrust complaints against Facebook that sought to force the social media company to sell Instagram and WhatsApp, saying the federal complaint was “legally insufficient.” Facebook shares rose more than 4 percent after the ruling. The share price rise put Facebook’s market capitalisation over $1 trillion (roughly Rs. 74,29,850
After drawing flak over displaying a distorted map of India that showed Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh as separate country, Twitter has now removed the wrong map. The glaring distortion, which appeared on the career section of Twitter website under the header ”Tweep Life”, had triggered a heavy backlash from netizens on Monday as they
LinkedIn data of over 700 million users has reportedly been exposed in a new breach. LinkedIn has a total of 756 million users, which means that the data of more than 92 percent of its users has been compromised in this new breach. The new dataset obtained by an unknown hacker is said to consist of
German government organisations have until the end of the year to close their Facebook pages after the data protection commissioner found the social network had failed to change its practices to comply with German and European privacy laws. In a letter to government departments and agencies earlier this month, commissioner Ulrich Kelber said Facebook had
Facebook launched its newsletter product “Bulletin” on Tuesday, a standalone platform for free and paid articles and podcasts that will aim to rival Substack. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the platform, which is live at Bulletin.com, and introduced some of the writers that the company has recruited in a live audio room on Facebook. Facebook is
In more trouble for Twitter, two FIRs were lodged in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh against senior officials of its India office over the social media platform putting up a distorted map of the country. The Delhi Police also said it has registered a case against Twitter on a complaint by the National Commission for