TEHRAN, Jan 16 - Facebook would extend some of its political advertising rules and tools for curbing election interference to India, Nigeria, Ukraine and the European Union before significant votes in the next few months, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, December 19 - Facebook Inc said it did not give some companies access to people’s data without their permission, after the New York Times reported on Tuesday that the social network allowed some large technology companies greater access to user data.
TEHRAN, December 19 -Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts from its platform linked to Myanmar’s army and used to incite violence against minority Rohingya Muslims.
TEHRAN, December 12 -A bomb threat prompted authorities on Tuesday to evacuate a building at the Silicon Valley headquarters of Facebook Inc (FB.O) near San Francisco, police said, but hours after a sweep of the structure began there was no word of explosives found.
TEHRAN, November 13 - Facebook users in the Americas were able to get back onto their profiles Monday afternoon, after the social media network went down briefly across some parts of the region.
TEHRAN, November 08 - Facebook has taken on a long-term lease in Dublin which will quadruple the floor space at its international headquarters and allow the company to more than double its current staff of over 4,000.
TEHRAN, November 06 - Facebook has admitted that its social media platform did not do enough to prevent incitement of violence and hate speech in Myanmar amid ongoing violence against Rohingya Muslims in the Southeast Asian country.
TEHRAN, November 06 - Facebook Inc blocked about 115 user accounts after U.S. authorities tipped it off to suspicious behavior that may be linked to a foreign entity, the company said in a blog post on Monday, hours before U.S. voters head to the polls.
TEHRAN, October 27 -Social media giant Facebook deletes 82 accounts, calling them “Iran-linked” ones engaging in politically-charged “divisive” activity.
TEHRAN, October 24 -Social media companies Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc have not detected Chinese meddling in the 2018 U.S. elections, Bloomberg reported.
TEHRAN, October 03 -Facebook Inc (FB.O) said it was investigating if a security breach that it revealed last week had impacted users of its corporate chat app, Workplace.
TEHRAN, October 03 -A Texas woman, claiming that she was raped, beaten and sex trafficked at the age of 15 by a pimp who posed as a Facebook “friend,” has filed suit against the social network, alleging its executives knew minors were being lured into the sex trade on their platform.
TEHRAN, September 29 - Facebook revealed on Friday that up to 50 million accounts were breached by hackers, dealing a blow to the social network's effort to convince users to trust it with their data.
TEHRAN, September 25 - A court in southern Vietnam has sentenced an activist to 27 months in prison for Facebook posts that judges say insulted the ruling Communist Party and government and called for anti-government protests.
TEHRAN, September 20 - A Singapore parliamentary committee said on Thursday the government should consider legislation to ensure technology companies rein in online fake news and that those responsible are punished.
TEHRAN, August 27 -Facebook has removed the account of the Myanmar military’s commander-in-chief and a number of other pages tied to the country on the same day that he was singled out in a UN report for war crimes against Rohingya Muslims.