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Meta lays off top Facebook executives, entire business units in India

Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of Facebook, has recently made significant changes to its workforce, including the layoff of top executives and the elimination of entire business units in India.

Meta hit with a record fine of $1.3 billion over data privacy breach

The fine was accompanied by an order to cease the transfer of Facebook user data from EU citizens to the United States.

Facebook users reportedly encounter 'auto friend request' bug

The glitch appears to occur when one user visits another person's profile, triggering an unsolicited friend request to be sent from the visitor to the profile owner.

A brief look inside Meta's recent youth safety initiatives

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has announced that in their ongoing effort and commitment to youth safety online, a series of youth safety initiatives to protect young people while using their apps are currently in place and are constantly reinforced.

Messenger users reportedly lost all media and files

Many individuals have lost all files and media shared through the messaging platform, leaving them without access to important documents, photos, and videos.

NID should be essential to open Facebook accounts: Telecom Minister

To prevent fake identities and false information from spreading on Facebook, the Minister suggested that Facebook authorities should take effective measures to verify the authentication of Facebook IDs with national IDs or mobile numbers. 

Meta releases AI model that can identify items within images

Facebook-owner Meta published an artificial intelligence model on Wednesday that can pick out individual objects from within an image, along with a dataset of image annotations that it said was the largest ever of its kind

Meta introduces fact-checking course in Bangladesh

Meta has recently introduced a free introductory fact-checking course for journalists in Bangladesh as well as in the Asia Pacific region, along with the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) of Poynter Institute.

7 hidden Facebook features you didn't know about

Aside from the most basic functions such as posting, commenting and reacting, Facebook has a myriad of hidden features that most active users don't know about. Here are some of the more helpful ones. 

May 25, 2023
May 25, 2023

Meta lays off top Facebook executives, entire business units in India

Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of Facebook, has recently made significant changes to its workforce, including the layoff of top executives and the elimination of entire business units in India.

May 22, 2023
May 22, 2023

Meta hit with a record fine of $1.3 billion over data privacy breach

The fine was accompanied by an order to cease the transfer of Facebook user data from EU citizens to the United States.

May 12, 2023
May 12, 2023

Facebook users reportedly encounter 'auto friend request' bug

The glitch appears to occur when one user visits another person's profile, triggering an unsolicited friend request to be sent from the visitor to the profile owner.

May 9, 2023
May 9, 2023

A brief look inside Meta's recent youth safety initiatives

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has announced that in their ongoing effort and commitment to youth safety online, a series of youth safety initiatives to protect young people while using their apps are currently in place and are constantly reinforced.

May 4, 2023
May 4, 2023

Messenger users reportedly lost all media and files

Many individuals have lost all files and media shared through the messaging platform, leaving them without access to important documents, photos, and videos.

April 20, 2023
April 20, 2023

NID should be essential to open Facebook accounts: Telecom Minister

To prevent fake identities and false information from spreading on Facebook, the Minister suggested that Facebook authorities should take effective measures to verify the authentication of Facebook IDs with national IDs or mobile numbers. 

April 6, 2023
April 6, 2023

Meta releases AI model that can identify items within images

Facebook-owner Meta published an artificial intelligence model on Wednesday that can pick out individual objects from within an image, along with a dataset of image annotations that it said was the largest ever of its kind

April 5, 2023
April 5, 2023

Meta introduces fact-checking course in Bangladesh

Meta has recently introduced a free introductory fact-checking course for journalists in Bangladesh as well as in the Asia Pacific region, along with the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) of Poynter Institute.

March 25, 2023
March 25, 2023

7 hidden Facebook features you didn't know about

Aside from the most basic functions such as posting, commenting and reacting, Facebook has a myriad of hidden features that most active users don't know about. Here are some of the more helpful ones. 

March 14, 2023
March 14, 2023

Meta to cut another 10,000 jobs and freeze 5,000 open roles

This comes just four months after the company laid off 11,000 employees in November last year. The first wave of layoffs will affect Meta's recruiting organization, followed by tech roles in April and business roles in May.