Facebook is slowly returning to normal operations after a service disruption that affected users in Bangladesh and several other parts of the world on Friday evening. After the outage began in the evening, users began reporting that Facebook services were slowly being restored around 8:25 p.m. However, many users said that some features are missing […]
The findings showed that online posts that directly called out or celebrated the attacks outnumbered narrative-building posts by almost 20 to 1, and generated almost 30 times more engagement. But this adverse campaign against The Daily Star and Prothom Alo did not start in December 2025. For more than a year, two Bangladeshi expatriate influencers, […]
According to the DownDetector website, Facebook reported that about 500,000 users were down at 10:30 am US East Coast time (1530 GMT). Instagram reached nearly 70,000 reports at the same time. Threads, Twitter's rival, which launched in 2023, also suffered from reports of outages, although WhatsApp, Meta's messaging service, seemed to be spared. Facebook's status […]
The matter does not end here. The Meta platform was widely used to spread the genocide of the Rohingya in Myanmar. The social media giant faces similar allegations in India and it is believed that Meta will not upset the Hindutva government in India. In the wake of the massive backlash, Meta hired a law […]
The Meta Ad Library stores information about Facebook ads. From September 7 last year, Meta started giving information about the income from political advertisements in Bangladesh. About $370,000, which is a little more than Tk 40 million, has been spent in the year to September 7 this year targeting Bangladeshi users. Digitally Right’s study studied […]
According to California Attorney General Rob Bonta, the legal complaints resulted from a nationwide investigation announced in November 2021. “Our bipartisan investigation has reached a sobering conclusion: META is harming our children and teens, creating addiction in order to fuel corporate profits,” Bonta said in a release. “With today’s lawsuit, we are drawing the line.” […]
Meta said it is aware of Hamas’s threats to broadcast footage of the hostages and that it will immediately remove any such material and prevent copies from being shared again. It is also reducing the threshold at which its technology takes action to avoid recommending content that potentially violates rules on its Facebook, Instagram and […]
“Through its decision to block news content from its digital platforms, Meta is threatening Canadian news organizations to compete effectively in the news publishing and online advertising markets,” news industry groups said in an application with Canada’s Competition Bureau. wants to spoil the capacity.” The application was filed by public broadcaster CBC/Radio-Canada, as well as […]
Facebook parent company Meta is facing a potential tax bill of about 870 million euros ($925 million) in Italy after prosecutors launched an investigation into the company, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday. The investigation was initiated by the magistrates of Milan at the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s […]
Years after Facebook quietly removed a slogan that declared the site was “free and always will be”, parent company Meta on Sunday announced a paid-for subscription service that has already been widely criticized. Has gone Meta is following a well-trodden path for subscription services, with rivals ranging from Reddit and Snapchat to Twitter and Discord […]
Meta Platforms announced on Sunday that it is testing a monthly subscription service called Meta Verified, which will let users verify their accounts using a government ID and earn a blue badge, as it allows content creators to grow. and helps build communities. The subscription bundles for Instagram and Facebook, launching later this week, also […]
Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc has delayed finalizing the budgets of several teams as it prepares a new round of job cuts, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. The FT reported, citing two Meta employees familiar with the situation, that there had been a lack of clarity in recent weeks about the budget and future […]