Jesse Eisenberg, who played Mark Zuckerberg in 'The Social Network', distances himself from the Meta chief. He criticizes Meta’s misinformation policies and political ties.
Unlike conventional advertising, digital advertising increases impact by individualising ads while also reducing businesses’ advertising costs. Nobel Laureates Acemoglu and Johnson are not the first to suggest a tax on revenues from digital ads.
By 2016-17, Facebook had designed a business model that aimed at maximising the ‘user engagement’, that is how much time users spent on their platform, and started collecting data on what they liked and shared.
Social media giant Meta received 33,422 reports through the Indian grievance mechanism for Facebook in the month of September, and responded to all of these reports.
I have never learned to compromise with injustice, and I never will, senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury wrote on Facebook last night.
Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin found that although Facebook users may be too quick to believe or share misinformation, flagging fake news can also make a significant difference.
The report showed that fake accounts actioned declined from 1.7 billion accounts in March quarter, to 1.5 billion in June quarter.
Content featuring violent and graphic pieces witnessed a sharp rise from 2.8 million pieces of content in Q1 to 3.1 million in Q2.
"Facebook is ensuring that Pages connected to those groups are held to the same standard as political entities when it comes to advertising on the platform," the report mentioned.
The Public Policy Director of Facebook India, South and Central Asia, Ankhi Das had claimed in a media statement, while launching Facebook lock feature in India that the feature, which allows users in India to lock their profiles from non-friends, was aimed particularly at women.
