“We are committed to cooperating with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s inquiry and answering the questions the agency may have,” the social media company said in a statement.
Lawmakers of Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have accused the social media giant of censoring nationalist voices, after the opposition Congress seized on a Wall Street Journal report to seek a parliamentary investigation of Facebook employees’ alleged ties with the ruling party.
The move is the latest salvo in a long-running cold war between two of the world’s most powerful tech companies, which have clashed over their approaches to user privacy as both face regulatory scrutiny over alleged anticompetitive behavior.
Among the global list of winners are Agha Ali Raza and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), whose proposal shone during the competitive selection process.
The lawsuit was brought in June by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), a Washington-based tech group funded by Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc’s Google and Twitter Inc. It marked the first major legal test of President Donald Trump’s directive.
Under the new policy, publishers with any political connections will still be allowed to register as a news page but the company will implement some restrictions. (bit.ly/3gNPf01)
The post contained a video clip, from an interview with Fox & Friends earlier in the day, in which Trump claimed that children are “almost immune” to COVID-19.
Reels' debut comes days after Microsoft said it was in talks to acquire TikTok's US operations from China's ByteDance. ByteDance has agreed to divest parts of TikTok.
Similar to TikTok, Reels users can record short mobile-friendly vertical videos, then add special effects and soundtracks pulled from a music library.
Using the exchanges, lawmakers got Zuckerberg to acknowledge that he saw photo-sharing app Instagram and messaging app WhatsApp as competitors when Facebook acquired them.
US Representative David Cicilline, a Democrat and chair of the antitrust subcommittee, began by accusing Google of theft.
Facebook's Zuckerberg took a series of questions about the company's purchase of Instagram in 2012, and whether it was acquired because it was a threat.
The testimony from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar Pichai and Apple’s Tim Cook, which was released Tuesday, portrays four chief executives who are looking over their shoulders at competitors who could render them obsolete.
the American way: we started with nothing and provided better products that people find valuable.
He added that the company competes as "vigorously as we can within the rules." Also testifying are the CEOs of Amazon.com Inc, Alphabet Inc's Google and Apple Inc.
"Mail-In Voting, unless changed by the courts, will lead to the most CORRUPT ELECTION in our Nation's History! #RIGGEDELECTION," Trump wrote.
The Facebook label, which does not dispute Trump's claim, redirects users to details from a US government website on how to vote in the 2020 elections.
Reliance, India's most highly-valued company run by billionaire Mukesh Ambani, has now sold nearly 33% of Jio Platforms which houses music, movie apps.
As we end our current cycle of capital raising, we are delighted to welcome another strategic partner into Jio.
Major US internet companies including Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Twitter and Zoom have all announced they have suspended the processing of requests for user data.
The US companies' social media platforms are generally banned in China, where access is blocked by Beijing's "great firewall".
Leaders from Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc told the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee that they had not seen evidence of coordinated foreign interference in conversations.
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“The global pandemic has been a reminder that it is more important than ever to accelerate voluntary blood donations across Pakistan,” says Dr Zafar Mirza.