Ground Report | New Delhi: Facebook on hate speech; Between 2018 and 2020, there were three internal reports on the operation of the social media platform Facebook in India – ranging from ‘polarizing content’, ‘fake and unsubstantiated’ messages to an ever-increasing number of content that ‘maligned’ minority communities. According to a report of Indian Express, … Read more
Ground Report | New Delhi: Facebook facial recognition software; Facebook has announced that it will no longer use facial recognition software that recognizes people’s faces in photos and videos. Concerns were being raised about the right or wrongness of this technique and questions were being asked about privacy, racist bias, and its accuracy. However, the … Read more
Ground Report | New Delhi: What is Meta Versus; Like other troubled companies in the past, Facebook has changed its name and logo and Facebook Inc. will now be called Meta Platforms Inc. or ‘Meta’ for short. This is a step towards the dream of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, called ‘Meta Versus’. But it is important … Read more
Ground Report | New Delhi: If Facebook is not stopped; Tech giant Facebook has announced a quarterly profit of more than $9bn billion at a time when various international newspapers are reporting on internal documents claiming that Facebook is protecting its profits from consumers. If Facebook is not stopped Frances Hughes, a former employee of the company … Read more
Ground Report | New Delhi: Facebook hate speech in India; Facebook is unable to stop misleading information, hate speech, and celebratory content in India, according to Facebook’s internal documents. Facebook researchers have reported that the platform also has “groups and pages full of anti-Muslim and misleading content”. According to this report, “In February 2019, a … Read more
Ground Report | New Delhi: Facebook allow VIP-users to Violate-rules; Facebook has long said it applies the same rules to all posts, but internal documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal paint a picture of a company that has killed millions of politicians, celebrities, and other high-profile users without any consequences allowed to break those … Read more
The “Coalition to Stop Genocide in India”, a broad coalition of Indian American and US based civil rights organizations and activists today urged the US House of Representatives to launch a Congressional probe into the functioning of Facebook and the organization’s role in amplifying hate and bigotry around the world, especially in South Asia. There … Read more
