Britain will make social media bosses personally liable for harmful content and shut down offending platforms under a "world-leading" government plan published Monday in response to the spread of online abuses and crimes.

UK takes aim at social networks that fail to quash 'hateful' content

Facebook will block election advertising from outside Australia ahead of polls next month, in the wake of growing criticism of the social media giant's role in the spread of disinformation.

Facebook to block foreign ads for Australia election

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Thursday admitted to paying another mother's grocery bill after the stranger forgot her wallet, a light moment for a leader still receiving plaudits for her handling of a gun massacre at two mosques.

New Zealand PM Ardern pays an unnamed womens grocery bill

Facebook Inc on Monday took down 15 pages and accounts that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behaviour in India and were linked to individuals associated with an Indian IT firm, Silver Touch.

Facebook says no evidence of 'Silver Touch' associated with NaMo App

Facebook to remove 687 Cong-linked pages on bases of behavior, content

Facebook has removed 103 pages, groups and accounts that were part of a network it said were linked to employees of the Pakistani military’s public relations arm, the social media group announced on Monday.

Facebook takes down Pakistan military-backed pages targeting India

Facebook Inc has removed a social media network in the Philippines for "coordinated inauthentic behaviour", and took the unusual step of linking it to a businessman who said he had managed the president's online election campaign in 2016.

Facebook removes online network in Philippines over 'inauthentic behaviour'

Facebook on Wednesday banned praise, support and representation of white nationalism and white separatism, a move that drew qualified approval from New Zealand where a massacre of 50 people in mosques was live-streamed earlier this month.

Facebook bans white nationalism, white separatism on its platforms after New Zealand mosque massacre

Facebook bans white nationalism, white separatism on its platforms

EU lawmakers have endorsed an overhaul of the bloc's two-decade old copyright rules, which will force Google and Facebook Inc to pay publishers for use of news snippets and make them filter out protected content.

Google, Facebook to pay publishers for use of news in EU

A gas explosion in a secretive enclave run by the ethnic Wa in Myanmar's eastern borderlands has killed 16 people and injured dozens, the United Wa State Army (UWSA) said Sunday.

Gas explosion kills 16 in Myanmar's remote Wa state: Wa army

Facebook Inc said on Thursday it has resolved a glitch that exposed passwords of millions of users stored in readable format within its internal systems to its employees.

Facebook fixes glitch that exposed millions of user passwords to employees

New Zealand mosque shootings kill 49 in what PM calls 'terrorist attack' At least one gunman killed 49 people and wounded more than 40 during Friday prayers at two New Zealand mosques in the country's worst ever mass shooting, which Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern condemned as terrorism.

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A day after the users of social networking site Facebook and Instagram experienced the site going down for several hours, Facebook authorities on Thursday clarified that the site went down not because of any Denial of service attack(DDoS).

'Facebook down not due to DDoS': Know what DDos attack is

Facebook said on Thursday it had restored service to its main app and Instagram, after the world's largest social network suffered a major outage that frustrated users across the globe for about 24 hours.

Facebook restores services after global outage

Facebook authorities said they were working to resolve the issue which led to the social networking site going down across several regions on Wednesday. In a tweet on Thursday, the social networking site assured that they were working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

Issue not related to DDoS attack, says Facebook as site goes down

US federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into data deals Facebook Inc struck with some of the world's largest technology companies, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.

US prosecutors probing Facebook's data deals: Report

Facebook and Instagram are down across large swathes of the world with numerous users saying neither would load on their mobile phones or computer screens. Some users got a message on their Facebook screens saying the social networking site was down for maintenance purposes, but would be back up soon.

Facebook, Instagram down in large parts of the the world

2019 Lok Sabha polls: Social media dos and don'ts for parties, candidates

Tattooed models in mustard robes replaced the usual grey-suited bankers at Nordea Bank's Copenhagen headquarters recently, as the Danish bank strutted out its latest attempt to woo young talent.

Denmark: To lure young talent, banks mimic tech workspaces

Tunisian authorities on Saturday launched multiple investigations into the sudden deaths of 11 newborn babies at a state maternity hospital in the capital. Tunisia's health minister Abdel-Raouf El-Sherif resigned after 11 babies mysteriously died, state news agency TAP said.

Tunisia probes deaths of 11 newborns at maternity clinic

Senator Elizabeth Warren vowed on Friday to break up Amazon.com Inc, Alphabet Inc's Google and Facebook Inc if elected U.S. president to promote competition in the tech sector.

Wall Street critic Elizabeth Warren vows to break up Amazon, Facebook, Google

Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday the company would encrypt conversations on more of its messaging services and make them compatible, the latest sign that the world's biggest social network sees its future in intimate online chats.

Facebook to implement end-to-end encryption in all private chats: Mark Zuckerberg

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