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India and US extend support to ‘digital highways’ in Indian Ocean region, Meta’s project to build undersea cables: Here is what we know so...

India has made its commitment clear in terms of its investment in the maintenance, repair and financing of undersea cables in the Indian Ocean through trusted vendors.

Meta to pay Donald Trump $25 million to settle lawsuit over suspension of his Facebook and Instagram accounts

Meta has agreed to pay President Donald Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit alleging First Amendment violations and other claims for suspending his Facebook and Instagram accounts

Amidst uncertainty surrounding TikTok in the US, Meta lures TikTokers to Instagram and Facebook by offering cash rewards and other deals

Meta is luring TikTok creators over to its platforms with the promise of cash bonuses, content deals, and support to grow their communities

Mark Zuckerberg permitted Meta to use pirated books to train its AI model, say authors accusing Meta of copyright infringement

Meta earlier admitted to using Books3, a dataset of 196,000 books, but it did not publicly disclose the direct use of LibGen data.

Who in India is going to be most affected by Meta’s decision to do away with ‘fact checking’

Several companies that work as third party fact-checkers for Meta will go out of business as the social media giant is junking fact-checking and adopting community notes.

Meta’s new moderation policies now allow Facebook users to call members of the LGBTQ community ‘mentally ill’

The latest guidelines from Meta permits Facebook users to refer to members of the LGBTQ community as 'mentally ill' on its platform.

Indian regulator CCI imposes Rs 213 crore penalty on Meta over sharing WhatsApp data with other entities, Meta to file appeal

The Commission also highlighted anti-competitive practices arising from the sharing of user data between Meta entities. Sharing WhatsApp user data with other Meta companies for purposes beyond providing WhatsApp services creates significant entry barriers for competitors, violating Section 4(2)(c) of the Act.

Uttar Pradesh: Brothers Mehtab and Shadab operated gang to target, shut down pro-Hindutva handles online and extort money, arrested

Mehtab and Shadab led a criminal gang consisting of hundreds of members who communicated via social media,

‘Yes, your smartphones are listening to conversations’: Facebook, Google partner admits that microphones are used for targeted ads without knowledge of users

Cox Media Group admitted during a pitch deck to investors that its "Active Listening" software uses Artificial Intelligence to "capture real-time intent data by listening to our conversations." The company explained that voice data can then be paired with behavioural data to target in-market customers for ads.

Zuckerberg’s admission, Twitter Files, and more: How USA has been censoring and ‘controlling’ speech while delivering sermons to India

Mark Zuckerberg's admission revealed that the United States government can push US-based social media platforms to promote any information they like and suppress what they don’t want the world to see.

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