Meta, which is now a rebrand for Facebook, recently reported that its primary social media platform Facebook saw a decline in userbase for the first time in its history. As a result, Meta saw a massive drop in its stock […]
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Facebook (aka Meta) Is the ‘Worst Company’ of 2021, As Per a Recent Survey
Every year, Yahoo Finance organizes a poll to crown the best company of the year based on stock pricing, market value, and various other factors. Apart from naming the best one (which is Microsoft), Yahoo Finance also conducted an open-ended […]
Facebook Testing Prompt to Ensure You Read Articles Before Sharing Them
Facebook has long had a problem of misinformation. The social media platform is often ridiculed for it, but the company seems to be working on a new safeguard of sorts. Facebook is running a new test that will prompt users […]
How to Delete Your Facebook Account: A Step-by-Step Guide
Facebook certainly does not have a good track record when it comes to protecting the privacy of its users. It has been victim to numerous privacy scandals, including the infamous Cambridge Analytica incident from 2018 and the 2021 Facebook data […]
Facebook Stole Biometric Data of 100 Million Users via Instagram, Claims New Lawsuit
Amongst other things, Facebook is infamous for its sneaky data collection and using them for business. Remember the Cambridge Analytica scandal? Well, now, the Menlo Park-based social media giant is being accused of stealing private biometric data of users via […]
Facebook Shared User Data with 5,000 Developers Despite 90 Days Limit
Facebook revealed on Wednesday that it continued to share data with third-party developers even after 90 days of user’s inactivity. The social media giant added a 90 days limit for apps in April 2018 following the infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal […]
“The Social Dilemma” Shows the Horrific Impacts of Social Media
Since the inception of social media in people’s lives, whether you admit it or not, the world has changed. Today, these major social media companies hold some of the key tools and “algorithms” that can essentially manipulate a human mind […]
Cambridge Analytica Guilty of Deceiving Facebook Users: US FTC
Almost a year and a half after the Cambridge Analytica scandal rocked Facebook and emboldened regulators around the world to clamp down on internet companies, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has found the now-defunct British data analytics company guilty […]
Google’s “Transparency Report” Shows Requests for User Information From Governments
As we all know by now that the internet has become a huge pool of data of millions, nay, billions of users around the world. Amongst other tech giants like Facebook or Instagram, Google is one of the biggest data […]
Facebook to Pay $9 Million to Settle Canadian Probe Into Misleading Privacy Claims
Canada’s competition watchdog has fined Facebook CA$9 million (around Rs. 48 crores) for making “false or misleading claims” about its privacy settings. In a press release on Tuesday, the Competition Bureau said that the internet giant will also pay an […]