The War Room's half-finished state shows how nascent and hurried many of Facebook efforts are to curb fake news in the upcoming US mid-term elections
5 min read20 Sep 2018Facebook had a software bug for 10 days in May that changed privacy setting for as many as 14 million users' posts to public, even if they had intended to share them just with friends
1 min read8 Jun 2018Facebook said it was careful not to remove posts or pages just because they were controversial and some people didn't like them, but said that Britain First had gone further and broken its anti-hatred rules with its anti-Islam posts
1 min read14 Mar 2018People who have deleted the Facebook app are noticing more and more frequent prompts to come back, sometimes multiple times a day, via emails or text messages, reminding them of what they are missing out on
5 min read1 Feb 2018Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg saw his fortune fall $2.9 billion after he posted plans to shift users' news feeds toward content from family, friends at the expense of material from businesses
1 min read13 Jan 2018Facebook removed messages of condolences following the death of Mafia boss Salvatore Riina 'in error', after users complained they violated the site's standards
1 min read23 Nov 2017Life in West Bengal's Baduria and surrounding areas, where communal clashes broke out over a Facebook post, returns to normalcy with no fresh incidents of violence
1 min read6 Jul 2017Facebook is deleting about 66,000 posts a week as the social media giant cracks down on what it considers to be hate speech
1 min read27 Jun 2017Last October, Facebook quietly made it possible to search for all public posts on Facebook, not just material posted by friends or pages
6 min read24 Mar 2016The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared