TEHRAN, August 21 -India said Facebook-owned WhatsApp had pledged on Tuesday to develop tools that would combat fake messages, to help the country crack down on people whipping up public anger through mass message forwards on social media.
TEHRAN, August 18 - The US Department of Housing and Urban Development on Friday accused Facebook of breaking the law by letting landlords and home sellers use its ad-targeting system to discriminate against potential buyers or tenants.
TEHRAN, August 7 - Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Monday it is in talks to deepen links with banks and financial institutions, saying it can help the firms improve their customer service.
TEHRAN, July 29 - A British parliamentary committee said government officials should hold social media companies responsible and liable for harmful, illegal content on their platforms.
TEHRAN, July 21 - Facebook has suspended Crimson Hexagon consultancy over concerns its contracts with the US government to harvest and analyze users' public data violated its policies, local media said.
TEHRAN, July 14 - The U.S. House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Tuesday to take testimony from Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc’s YouTube unit and Twitter Inc on whether social media companies are filtering content for political reasons, the committee chairman said.
TEHRAN, July 11 -Britain's data regulator has said it will fine Facebook half a million pounds (US$660,000) for failing to protect users' data, in an inquiry into whether personal information had been misused by campaigns on both sides of Britain's 2016 EU referendum.
TEHRAN, July 11 - The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the country’s data protection watchdog, has slapped Facebook with fines to the tune of $660,000 - the maximum allowed by law - after an investigation concluded that “Facebook contravened the law by failing to safeguard people’s information.”
TEHRAN, July 04 -Facebook Inc’s (FB.O) WhatsApp messenger has told India that curbing the spread of false messages through its platform is a challenge that required a partnership between the tech firm, civil society and the government.
TEHRAN, July 03 -Former Congressman Ron Paul is under fire after a Facebook post and a tweet about cultural Marxism contained a racist caricature, which was also wrongly attributed to cartoonist Ben Garrison.
TEHRAN, July 03 -A federal investigation into Facebook Inc’s data breach with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica has broadened focus on the actions and statements of the tech giant, the Washington Post reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the inquiries.
TEHRAN, June 29 - Just imagine if an RT journalist had authored a book about psychological warfare on social media and then instructed the Russian army on how to conduct operations on Facebook. Startled? Relax, just change “RT” to “Daily Beast.”
TEHRAN, June 12 - Vietnamese lawmakers approved a controversial cybersecurity law on Tuesday, voting amid tight security following weekend protests over other legislation that turned violent in some parts of the communist country.
Facebook, the world's largest social media company, has confirmed that at least four Chinese firms have been granted limited access by the social media company to Facebook members’ data.
TEHRAN, June 05 - Silicon Valley social media giants may face millions of dollars in penalties from two lawsuits filed in Seattle, Washington, arguing that they have failed to comply with state and local laws on election advertising.
TEHRAN, May 30-The evil geniuses at Facebook are camouflaging consent provisions and manipulating users into hastily accepting their tracking terms by showing them fake notifications, a new lawsuit says.
TEHRAN, May 22 - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faces senior European Union lawmakers later Tuesday to answer questions about a scandal over the alleged misuse of the data of millions of Facebook users.
TEHRAN, May 18 - Italy's anti-establishment Five Star Movement on Friday published a policy program for government drafted with the far-right League, taking the parties a step closer to ending months of stalema
TEHRAN, May 15 - The Facebook scandal has laid bare the urgency of protecting personal information in a digital "jungle," the EU's justice minister said before new European data rules become law.
TEHRAN, May 7 - Israel’s foreign ministry has launched a Facebook page uniquely dedicated to efforts to sway the public opinion in Iraq in favor of the Tel Aviv regime, a new report says.