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Data mining and analysis firm Cambridge Analytica earlier faced allegations that it used personal information harvested from 87 million Facebook accounts to help Donald Trump win the 2016 US presidential election.

Japan tells Facebook to improve data protection

The government asked the world's largest social media network to fully communicate security issues to users.

22 Oct 2018 6:31 PM IST

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Photo: AP)

New York witches plan to cast spell on Brett Kavanaugh

The ritual was scheduled to be livestreamed on Facebook and Instagram at 8 pm EDT on Saturday (1200 GMT Sunday).

20 Oct 2018 1:25 PM IST

Facebook said Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg were closely involved in the hiring process, and started talking to Clegg over the summer. (Photo: Nick Clegg via Twitter)

Facebook hires former UK deputy prime minister as head of global...

The appointment makes Clegg the most senior European politician ever in a leadership role in Silicon Valley.

20 Oct 2018 9:58 AM IST

Facebook is allowing advertisers access to this hidden personal information for custom audience.

Facebook launches 'war room' to combat manipulation

In Facebook's "War Room," a team of 20 people monitors computer screens for signs of suspicious activity.

18 Oct 2018 4:21 PM IST

Facebook is allowing advertisers access to this hidden personal information for custom audience.

Facebook tentatively concludes spammers were behind recent data breach

The people behind the attack were a group of Facebook and Instagram spammers that present themselves as a digital...

18 Oct 2018 7:32 AM IST

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes the keynote address at F8, Facebooks developer conference in San Jose, Calif. (Photo: AP)

At Facebook, public funds join push to remove Zuckerberg as chairman

A similar shareholder proposal seeking an independent chair was defeated in 2017 at Facebook.

18 Oct 2018 7:23 AM IST

Data mining and analysis firm Cambridge Analytica earlier faced allegations that it used personal information harvested from 87 million Facebook accounts to help Donald Trump win the 2016 US presidential election.

Facebook to demote links of websites republishing stolen content

Facebook has updated its policy for the News Feed where links from websites promoting stolen content will be demoted.

17 Oct 2018 6:06 PM IST

Facebook is allowing advertisers access to this hidden personal information for custom audience.

Facebook to say who pays for UK political adverts

Britain's parliament has called for tech firms such as Facebook to be made liable for disseminating misleading political...

17 Oct 2018 9:13 AM IST

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will unveil the Union Budget 2018 on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

Arun Jaitley hits back at Rahul Gandhi over PNB fraud case, Rafale...

Jaitley said he had never even seen Nirav Modi in person, leave alone meeting him in Parliament and helping him escape...

16 Oct 2018 8:15 PM IST

Facebook is allowing advertisers access to this hidden personal information for custom audience.

Facebook to ban misinformation on voting in upcoming US elections

Facebook has stopped short of banning all false or misleading posts, something that it has shied away.

16 Oct 2018 1:17 PM IST

Facebook is allowing advertisers access to this hidden personal information for custom audience.

Facebook now says data breach affected 29 million users

The company said it would message affected users over the coming days to tell them what type of information had been...

16 Oct 2018 8:09 AM IST

Karan Jani, a 29-year-old from Vadodra, who in 2016 had made it to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory team in the US that discovered the gravitational waves, narrated on Facebook and Twitter how he and his friends were thrown out of the venue by the organisers at Sri Shakti Mandir. (Photo: Facebook | @AstroKPJ)

'Not Hindu': Scientist thrown out of garba in US organised by...

Karan Jani said that despite talking to the organisers in Gujarati, they refused to budge and asked him and his friends...

15 Oct 2018 10:57 AM IST