There’s no denying social media has been a life-saver during the pandemic, but a reliance on it can have a detrimental effect on your mental health.

How is social media affecting mental health of minors?

Four Republican U.S. lawmakers requested on Tuesday that Facebook Inc, Twitter Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google turn over any studies they have done on how their services affect children’s mental health.

US lawmakers press Big Tech for internal research on kids' mental health

Facebook said on Monday it planned two new undersea cables to connect Singapore, Indonesia and North America in a project with Google and regional telecommunication companies to boost internet connection capacity between the regions.

Facebook ties up with Google for project to lay down new undersea cables

Facebook has frozen Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's page for violating its policies. His account on photo-sharing social media platform Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, will not be affected.

Facebook freezes Venezuela president's page over Covid misinformation

Lawmakers grilled the leaders of Facebook, Google and Twitter on Thursday about the connection between online disinformation and the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, causing Twitter’s CEO to publicly admit for the first time that his product had played a role in the events that left five people dead.

US lawmakers grill tech CEOs on Capitol riot, getting few direct answers

Facebook has said it disrupted efforts by hackers in China to spy on supporters of the Uighur minority living outside that country. A group of well-resourced hackers in China targetted hundreds of Uighur activists, journalists, and dissidents living abroad, trying to trick them into clicking on website links containing malicious code.

Cyber spies in China targetted Uighurs, Facebook says

Facebook has said that it has blocked the group of hackers in China who used the Facebook platform to target Uighurs Muslims living abroad.

Facebook accuses Chinese hackers of targeted Uighurs

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday urged US lawmakers to offer protection for liability for content to only those platforms that had the ability to remove the unlawful content.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg proposes changes to internet rules

Facebook Inc has fixed a technical issue that caused a global outage of its services after more than a million people reported problems with its photo-sharing app Instagram.

Global outage of Facebook services including WhatsApp causes mayhem on Twitter

Social networking giant Facebook is planning to develop a new version of its subsidiary Instagram for kids under 13 years of age, where parents would have transparency or control over the accounts of their children.

Facebook building a version of Instagram for children under 13

News Corp has now reached to deal with Facebook Australia and according to the deal the social media giant has agreed to pay News Corp Australia for journalism for its local media outlets.

Facebook agrees to pay News Corp for content in Australia

A Facebook internal study has found that a small group of users is actually sowing major doubts about the Covid-19 vaccines, discouraging people from taking the vital jab.

Just 111 Facebook users spread half of Covid vaccine doubts 

Facebook on Monday said that it has begun labelling all posts that discuss the safety of COVID-19 shots, while adding that the company plans on labelling all posts about the vaccines soon.

Facebook set to label all COVID-related posts to battle misinformation

Google has accused Microsoft of "distraction" for siding with governments seeking to force tech platforms to pay media organizations for news content. Google and Facebook have resisted mandatory payments, while Microsoft has taken a more collaborative stance.

Google slams Microsoft over stance in media payments

Facebook has decided to halt its efforts to build a trans-Pacific undersea cable due to tensions between the United States and China. This cable would have connected California and Hong Kong.

Facebook halts project for undersea data cable to Hong Kong

Russia is waging a war on social media as it has sued America's big three tech giants. It is threatening to ban Twitter. The story of social media regulations began with the arrest and sentencing of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who was allegedly poisoned last year.

Social media coup: Russia slows down Twitter, files cases against Facebook and Google

US agency is investigating Facebook for alleged racial bias in process of hiring and granting promotion at the workplace. The equal employment opportunity commission has designated the problem as systemic. This means the agency suspect that the company policies may be contributing to widespread discrimination.

US agency probes Facebook for alleged racial bias

Thailand's military on Thursday said it was not behind a network of Facebook accounts that the social media giant took down on the grounds they were using deceptive behaviour to influence public debate.

Thai military denies involvement in network removed by Facebook

After Australia, New Zealand is now eyeing a similar deal with tech giants Facebook and Google. The new law will require Google, Facebook to pay for news publishers.

New Zealand mulls introducing media law similar to Australia

A US court has given a final approval to Facebook's $650 million payment to settle a privacy dispute between the group and users in the US state of Illinois. According to a report in AFP, the decision was issued on Friday.

Facebook to pay $650mn settlement over US privacy dispute

The unchecked power of tech giants poses a threat not just to users and governments but also to small businesses. A statement by Apple CEO Tim Cook has confirmed that Apple buys a new company every month.

Break up mergers to check tech giants’ growing power  

The Australian Parliament on Thursday approved the new law that will make it compulsory for Google and Facebook to pay media companies for news content published on their platforms.

Morning news brief: Facebook-Australia row, Pfizer's vaccine, and more

Australia has passed a new law that will require digital platforms like Facebook and Google to pay local media outlets and publishers.

Australia passes news media, digital platforms code

A few hours after the Australian government and Facebook reached a compromise deal, the country's lawmakers are expected to approve amendments to the controversial media law that may force Alphabet's Google and Facebook to pay media companies for news content.

Fate of Facebook and Google in Australia depends on amendments in media law

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