Ground Report | New Delhi: Is Facebook Dying? Facebook has been around for about 18 years since it was first started in 2004. The story of how it came into being is quite remarkable told in David Fincher’s oscar-winning movie called ‘The Social Network. Since, its inception, the social media platform has grown significantly, beyond … Read more
People across the country are waking up this morning to find their follower counts (and their Page counts, for many) mysteriously cut in half or less. Due to a mistake on Facebook, millions of people’s followers disappeared overnight. Not even Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has survived this storm of bugs. Even Mark Zuckerberg’s follower count … Read more
Facebook has suspended the right-wing social network account that in the last week posted false information about transgender health care for youth at Boston Children’s Hospital, sparking a storm of threats and harassment against the medical center and its doctors. The account was addressed to Children’s Hospital’s Gender Multi-Specialty Services Program, or GeMS, the first … Read more
Ground Report | New Delhi: Facebook TikTok stories; A new report reveals that US social media platform Facebook is paying a right-wing consulting firm to discredit its Chinese rival Tik Tok. According to the Washington Post, Facebook-owned company Meta hired a firm called ‘Target Victory’ to publish negative articles and posts about the Chinese app … Read more
Ground Report | New Delhi: Russia bans Facebook Instagram; The Russian Justice today satisfied the demand of the Prosecutor’s Office to prohibit in the country the activities of the technological giant Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, considering it an extremist organization for allowing calls to violence against Russians. “The activity of … Read more
Ground Report: Metaverse a safe reality; ‘Metaverse’ , if you are a tech-savvy person, you must be very well aware of this buzzword in the tech town. Metaverse can also be referred to as Virtual Reality(VR) From the keywords such as Metaverse or Virtual Reality, one could assume that it is related to cyberspace or … Read more
Ground Report | New Delhi: Facebook censors women’s health; Facebook disproportionately blocks ads focused on women’s health, according to a report released Tuesday by the Center for Intimacy Justice and Origin, a nonprofit pelvic floor physical therapy startup. Facebook censors women’s health ads According to the report, which surveyed 60 companies over the past three … Read more
Ground Report | New Delhi: Facebook denounces 6 companies; Meta Platforms Inc. reported Thursday that seven spy companies have used its platform to spy on 50,000 people in 100 countries. These seven companies are located in China, Israel, India and North Macedonia. BellTroX, which is based in India, is among seven companies identified in four … Read more
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
