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Facebook apps have helped businesses in the European Union (EU) generate sales corresponding to an estimated EUR 208 billion last year - resulting in nearly 3.1 million jobs, the social networking giant said in a new report.According to Facebook, around 25 million businesses in the European Union, mostly small businesses, are...

Facebook will hire 1,000 people in London this year in roles such as product development and safety as it continues to grow its biggest engineering centre outside the United States after Britain leaves the European Union.Over half of the new jobs will be in technology, including software engineering and data...

Facebook will do a better job of preventing bad actors from abusing its platform to manipulate this year's US presidential election than it did four years ago, its public affairs chief Nick Clegg said on Monday. Facing a critical audience at a technology conference in Munich, Clegg, a British former deputy...

Facebook on Saturday blamed a technical error for Chinese leader Xi Jinping's name appearing as “Mr Shithole” in posts on its platform when translated into English from Burmese, apologising for any offence caused.The error came to light on the second day of a visit by the president to the Southeast Asian...

To stop spread of disinformation leading to widespread public disorder, the government is said to be exploring the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to remove such content automatically from social media platforms.The Centre is to "take up the issue with representatives of various international social media platforms operating in the...

Social media platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok may have to scramble for developing account identity-verification option to check "fake news, malicious content, misinformation, racial slurs, gender abuse that may have an impact on the individual and society as a whole." This may form part of the...

Four companies sued Facebook in US federal court on Thursday for alleged anticompetitive conduct, saying the social network inappropriately revoked developer access to its platform in order to harm prospective competitors.The plaintiffs sought class-action status and unspecified damages, according to a filing at the US District Court for the Northern...

In an update to his eccentric food habits, Twitter CEO has now revealed that he eats seven meals in a week, just dinner. In an YouTube interview with Wired on Wednesday, Dorsey who follows Vipassana meditation and intermittent fasting, added to his list of out-of-the-box lifestyle choices that includes ice...

Facebook has added a new login feature that will notify users whenever they log into a third-party app or website using their account.This login notification will alert the user every time a third-party application will access user data and will be sent via mail, zdnet.com reported on Wednesday."The design and...

Facebook has announced to match up to $1 million (Australian dollars) (roughly Rs. 4.9 crores) in donations made to non-profit organisation GlobalGiving and donating $250,000 (roughly Rs. 1.2 crores) to the Australian Red Cross towards bushfires relief efforts.Currently, Facebook Disaster Maps in Australia are being used by a range of national...