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10 November 2021 (New Delhi): A new study from global public health organization Vital Strategies found that the tobacco industry is using Facebook to facilitate bidi sales, skirting India’s COTPA regulations designed to protect youth and consumers from harmful marketing. The report, “Selling Death on Social Media: How Bidis Are Reaching Consumers Online” details digital media monitoring data with 344 instances of bidi marketing on social media between December 2020 and August 2021, almost exclusively through Facebook (98%). Key findings in the report include: Facebook hosts at […]
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Delhi assembly summons Facebook India representatives over 2020 riots. (File image: iStock) The Delhi Assembly‘s Committee on Peace and Harmony on Friday summoned representatives from Facebook India to testify on November 2 over the February 2020 riots in the national capital. In a letter, the Committee said that it will focus on social media giant’s role in curbing false and malicious messages that could cause disharmony in the society. “Since Facebook has lakhs of users in the NCT of Delhi, the Committee has decided to hear the […]
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Amid the Capitol riot, Facebook faced its own insurrection. As supporters of Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6th, battling police and forcing lawmakers into hiding, an insurrection of a different kind was taking place inside the world’s largest social media company. Thousands of miles away, in California, Facebook engineers were racing to tweak internal controls to slow the spread of misinformation and inciteful content. Emergency actions – some of which were rolled back after the 2020 election – included banning Trump, freezing comments in […]
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This image is for representational purpose only. Britain’s competition watchdog said on Wednesday, it had fined social network giant, Facebook over £50 million for the “deliberate” failure to supply information linked to its takeover of animated graphics startup, Giphy. The Competition and Markets Authority said the fine totaling £50.5 million ($69.5 million, 60 million euros) was imposed for “consciously refusing to report all the required information” concerning the purchase last year. “We warned Facebook that its refusal to provide us with important information was a breach of […]
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Facebook Inc on Tuesday said it has invested more than $13 billion in safety and security measures since 2016, days after a newspaper reported the company had failed to fix “the platform’s ill effects” researchers had identified. The social media giant said it now has 40,000 people working on safety and security, compared with 10,000 five years ago. Facebook played down the negative effects on young users of its Instagram app and had a weak response to alarms raised by employees over how the platform is used […]
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Facebook has launched an effort targeting users working together on the platform to promote real-world violence or conspiracy theories, beginning by taking down a German network spreading Covid misinformation. The new tool announced on Thursday is meant to detect organized, malicious efforts that are a threat but fall short of the social media giant’s existing rules against hate groups, said Facebook’s head of security policy Nathaniel Gleicher. Facebook has been under relentless pressure to guard against being a platform where misinformation and hate can spread, while at […]
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Facebook and Accenture have rarely talked about their arrangement or even acknowledged that they work with each other. In 2019, Julie Sweet, the newly appointed chief executive officer of global consulting firm Accenture, held a meeting with top managers. She had a question: Should Accenture get out of some of the work it was doing for a leading client, Facebook? For years, tensions had mounted within Accenture over a certain task that it performed for the social network. In eight-hour shifts, thousands of its full-time employees and […]
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In 2018, the company created the Oversight Board, a panel that includes former politicians, academics and policy experts to rule on whether Facebook is right to remove certain content from its platform. Facebook has approached academics and policy experts about forming a commission to advise it on global election-related matters, said five people with knowledge of the discussions, a move that would allow the social network to shift some of its political decision-making to an advisory body. The proposed commission could decide on matters such as the […]
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Facebook bans Taliban supporting content Facebook announced that it has banned the Taliban and all content supporting the insurgents from its platforms as it considers the group to be a terrorist organisation. The company says it has a dedicated team of Afghan experts to monitor and remove content linked to the group, the BBC reported. For years, the Taliban has used social media to spread its messages. Its rapid takeover of Afghanistan raises fresh challenges for technology firms on how to deal with content related to the […]
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