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Facebook signs first deal to buy renewable energy from local firm in India

Facebook has signed a deal to buy renewable energy in India from a local firm's wind power project, the social media giant's first such deal in the South Asian nation, the companies said on Thursday

India at 49th spot on internet inclusion globally: Facebook study

This comes despite cheapest data plans and nearly 700 million internet users

Facebook ties up with CleanMax to go 100% renewable in India

Facebook and CleanMax on Thursday announced a partnership to support renewable power

Internet cos need positive regulatory framework: Facebook India head

Facebook India Head Ajit Mohan said there is a need for a "forward-looking and positive regulatory framework" for internet companies

Users can move Oversight Board to remove harmful content from FB, Instagram

This new capability, long-sought by advocates of independent content moderation, represents an important step toward delivering a more principled and transparent model of content moderation

What is scraping and how it was used to breach data at Facebook, LinkedIn

Facebook has previously filed cases against companies that have developed tools to scrape its user data; LinkedIn also said scraping violates its terms of service

Fine, thank you, says Alibaba Group after China's $2.8-billion penalty

It's a sign of how odd China's crackdown on the power of big tech has been compared with the rest of the world

Making of Bidenomics

The idea of a global minimum tax rate has merits

Facebook spent $23 million on Mark Zuckerberg's security in 2020

"He is synonymous with Facebook, and as a result, negative sentiment regarding our company is directly associated with, and often transferred to, Mr. Zuckerberg," read the statement

Facebook to turn Menlo Park headquarters into Covid vaccination site

Facebook Inc said on Friday it is converting a part of its Menlo Park headquarters into a vaccination site, joining the government effort to speed up the vaccination drive in the United States

Facebook, Instagram face another global outage in less than a month

Facebook and Instagram went down for millions of its users for couple of hours in various parts of the world early Friday morning

After Facebook, LinkedIn faces massive 500 mn users' data leak: Report

Microsoft-owned professional networking platform LinkedIn is now facing a massive data leak of 500 million users that is allegedly being sold online

Muslim civil rights group sues Facebook over hate speech: Details here

A civil rights group said CEO Mark Zuckerberg made false and deceptive" statements to Congress when he said the giant social network removes hate speech and other material that violates its rules

HC judge recuses herself from hearing Facebook, WhatsApp pleas on privacy

Facebook and WhatsApp have challenged the CCI's March 24 order directing a probe into the new privacy policy.

Data on 530 mn users reported in leak 'scraped' before Sep 2019: Facebook

Facebook said a recently reported data leak affecting potentially 530 mn users stemmed from misuse of feature in 2019, and that the company had plugged the hole after identifying problem at the time

Leaked Facebook data reveals chief Mark Zuckerberg uses Signal app

As Facebook CEO Mark Zukerberg's phone number also emerged among the leaked data of 533 million Facebook users, a security expert has revealed that the Facebook CEO uses Signal.

WhatsApp tests chat history migration between iPhone, Android devices

Facebook-owned WhatsApp is reportedly testing the ability to easily migrate chat history between an iPhone and an Android device.

Supreme Court Justice in US suggests regulations for social media platforms

Justice Clarence Thomas said that Congress should consider whether laws should be updated to better regulate social media platforms that have "unbridled control" over "unprecedented" amounts of speech

Meesho becomes unicorn after SoftBank-led $300-million fundraise

Social commerce opportunity in India is pegged at $16-20 billion by 2025

6.1 million Indians among over 533 million users suffer Facebook data leak

A hacker has posted the phone numbers and sensitive account details of nearly 533 million Facebook users -- about a fifth of the social networking platform's entire user base