Facebook friend request hoax that tricks people into thinking their account was cloned goes viral

Similar spam messages have spread across Facebook in previous years.

Kanishk Karan

· Oct 15, 2018 · 10:30 am

Facebook says hackers in September stole personal data of 29 million users

The social media company had earlier put the figure at 50 million.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 13, 2018 · 08:02 am

Facebook is setting up task force in India to combat fake news ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha elections

Its main challenge will be to distinguish between real political news and political propaganda, said senior Facebook official Richard Allan.

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· Oct 06, 2018 · 05:33 pm

ShareChat: The no-English social media app that Indian politicians are flocking to

The homegrown app was launched in October 2015 and claims a 20-fold increase in the number of monthly active users to 25 million in the past 18 months.

Aria Thaker, qz.com

· Oct 06, 2018 · 01:30 pm

Nirmala Sitharaman says it is necessary to keep social media ‘toxic free’

The defence minister said an ‘intelligent and smart narrative’ about India’s progress can be built only in the absence of negativity.

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· Sep 30, 2018 · 07:30 pm

Social media hub: Centre tells court it’s willing to include TMC MLA’s suggestions in UIDAI’s policy

Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi said that none of the changes Mahua Moitra had suggested were incorporated in the UIDAI’s second Request for Proposal.

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· Sep 11, 2018 · 09:52 pm

Congress releases Rahul Gandhi’s Fitbit data, photos from Kailash Yatra after BJP raises questions

Union Minister of State Giriraj Singh claimed that the pictures were fake.

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· Sep 07, 2018 · 03:56 pm

Twitter was unprepared for misinformation campaigns over the last few years, its CEO tells US Senate

Jack Dorsey said Twitter was meant to be a ‘public square’, but fell victim to ‘abuse, harassment, troll armies, propaganda through bots’.

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· Sep 05, 2018 · 11:15 pm

Why Facebook’s user trustworthiness score may not be enough to curb fake news

Facebook users may be flagging news as fake just because they disagree with it.

Sharon Coen, The Conversation

· Sep 04, 2018 · 08:30 pm

Facebook bans Myanmar military officials after UN report says they should be tried for genocide

The social media network said it has also banned 52 pages, followed by 12 million people, and one Instagram account.

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· Aug 28, 2018 · 09:29 am

Facebook is rating users’ trustworthiness on a scale from zero to one to combat misinformation

The system is not meant to be an absolute indicator of a person’s credibility, and users are not assigned a single unified reputation score, the company said.

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· Aug 22, 2018 · 02:14 pm

Pakistan threatens Twitter with ban if it does not block ‘objectionable content’: Report

The country’s telecom authority told the Senate Standing Committee that Facebook, YouTube and other social media platforms had complied with its orders.

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· Aug 16, 2018 · 02:59 pm