Just in: Facebook removes some Nigerians, Egyptians, others accounts
Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts, pages and groups from its social network platforms that the company says were involved in coordinated inauthentic behaviour.
US slaps $5 bn fine on Facebook, toughens privacy oversight
US regulators on Wednesday slapped a record $5 billion fine on Facebook for privacy violations in a wide-ranging settlement that calls for revamping privacy controls and oversight at the social network.
Facebook faces financial crisis as U.S. govt. imposes $5bn fine
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg might be in serious financial difficulty if the U.S. government make good its threat to impose a fine of about five billion dollars against Facebook over privacy violations.
Facebook explains the cause of eight hours of Social media meltdown
Facebook has said that the outage that crashed the site worldwide along with Instagram and WhatsApp for over eight hours yesterday was caused by an issue triggered during routine maintenance, noting that the issue was first acknowledged in a brief statement on Twitter.
Facebook services back online after worldwide outage
Facebook said it was “back at 100 per cent” after an outage on all of its services affected users in various parts of the world.
Facebook starting nominations ‘soon’ for content oversight panel
Facebook said Thursday it would soon open up nominations for a new 40-member oversight panel to make tough decisions on content moderation, saying it would be independent of governments and management of the social networking giant.
