TEHRAN, March 14 - Facebook Inc. has tried to maintain a veneer of editorial independence, but recent moves in Europe point toward the social media giant becoming increasingly active in banning those who cross the line.
TEHRAN, February 4 -Mark Zuckerberg has vowed to encourage more personal connections on Facebook in 2018. As a result, time spent on the site at the end of last year dropped by 50 million hours daily. Have you stopped logging on as much?
TEHRAN, January 20 -Feeling the pressure from Congress to ‘fix’ his social media platform, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has resorted to crowdsourcing the ratings system for “trustworthy” news sources appearing on users’ feeds.
TEHRAN, December 21 - Several U.S. employers engaged in age discrimination by placing recruitment ads on Facebook targeting younger workers, according to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday by a communications industry labor union.
TEHRAN, November 25 -A global network controlled by users, rather than being dominated by corporations like Google and Facebook will offer more security, privacy activist and software developer Dmytri Kleiner told RT, referring to Kim Dotcom’s notion of an “alternative internet.”
TEHRAN, November 9-Facebook is teaming up with four countries to test a preemptive system to detect and defend against “revenge porn.” Users are being asked to upload nude photos of themselves to Messenger.
TEHRAN, November 3 -Popular messaging app ‘WhatsApp’ is down, with users forced to switch to one of the many other forms of communication still in operation.
TEHRAN, November 2-US Internet giants Facebook, Twitter and Google were grilled by senators Tuesday over their role in Russia’s alleged efforts to compromise the 2016 US presidential election by placing political ads across the platforms. Some lawmakers went as far as to claim that Twitter, for instance, was “on the side of Russia” during the campaign, as it allowed the “Russia-linked” accounts to run ads.
TEHRAN, October 31 -Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Monday that Russia-based operatives published about 80,000 posts on the social network over a two-year period in an effort to sway U.S. politics and that about 126 million Americans may have seen the posts during that time.
TEHRAN, October 5 - The potential impact of the so-called Russia-linked Facebook ads recently turned over to Senate Intelligence Committee, is vastly exaggerated, Virginia Senator Richard Black (R) told RT, adding that the only goal of the ever-expanding probe is to defame US President Trump.
TEHRAN, September 28 -Facebook, Google, and Twitter have reportedly been invited to testify before a US Senate panel over an investigation into Russia’s alleged intervention in the 2016 election, which yielded President Donald Trump.
TEHRAN, September 26 - Russian authorities have warned Facebook that the American company will be definitively banned in the country next year unless it complies with a law on storing users’ data inside Russia.
TEHRAN, May 8, YJC - Facebook said in a statement Tuesday that it had designed new algorithms to detect and remove news articles posted to mislead British voters.
Tehran, YJC. Maestro Mashayekhi will act as Iran’s representative of peace and friendship to meet Lionel Messi following improper comments addressed at the Argentinean legend.