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Sabrang India
Release India Human Rights Impact Assessment report: Activists to Facebook
21 Jan 2022
The report could shed light on the exact role played by Facebook in helping cultivate an ecosystem of Hate in India.
Associated Press
US: Google, Facebook CEOs Colluded in Online ad Sales, Alleges Anti-Trust Lawsuit
15 Jan 2022
New unredacted documents offer details on the alleged involvement of Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in approving the deal.
Silja Fröhlich
Dictators in Africa Using Social Media to Cling to Power
10 Jan 2022
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni is suspected of using fake social media accounts to consolidate his power. He wouldn't be the only one in Africa. Is social media becoming a threat to democracy on…
PTI
Meta aka Facebook Disables 7 'Surveillance-for-Hire' Entities, BellTrox in India
17 Dec 2021
Alerts being issued to 50,000 targeted users, including politicians, election officials, human rights activists and celebrities in over 100 countries.
Prabir Purkayastha
Data Privacy Bill: Commercialising Our Data and Weakening Our Privacy
15 Dec 2021
The world is far more interconnected than ever before, with 60% of the world’s population connecting to the internet.
Sabrang India
Rohingyas Sue Facebook For $150 Billion Over Failing to Police Communal Hate Speech
10 Dec 2021
A class-action complaint was filed in California and in a coordinated action, British lawyers also submitted a letter of notice to Facebook's London office.
Newsclick Report
Protesters in 8 US Cities Slam ‘Hatebook’ for Anti-Muslim ‘Role’ in India
16 Nov 2021
Protests organised by India Genocide Watch criticise Facebook for allowing hate speech to be freely posted in India.
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Deep Rot Within Facebook/Meta: What can be Done?
12 Nov 2021
So, what’s new about whistleblower Frances Haugen’s revelations about how the top brass of the now-renamed Facebook turned a blind eye to the proliferation of incendiary, hateful and false informat
Associated Press
2 Years ago, Apple Threatened Facebook, Insta Ban on Concerns Over Maid Trafficking in West Asia: Internal Documents
26 Oct 2021
Even today, a quick search for “khadima,” or “maids” in Arabic, will bring up accounts featuring posed photographs of Africans and South Asians with ages and prices listed next to their images.
PTI
Internal Documents Show Facebook Wavered in Checking Misinformation, Hate Speech in India: Report
25 Oct 2021
In the document titled 'Adversarial Harmful Networks: India Case Study', "Facebook researchers wrote that there were groups and pages “replete with inflammatory and misleading anti-Muslim content.