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Amazon Rainforest for Sale on Facebook!

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Feb 2021

Amazon Rainforest for Sale on Facebook!

BBC has recently reported that the world’s most covetable and preserved rainforests were put on sale through Facebook Marketplace. Reports have revealed that the land put on sale includes national forests and the land reserved for the indigenous people. Some of the lands that appeared on Facebook Marketplace are as large as 1000 Football grounds. The Californian Tech Firm, supposed to be behind the land...

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Facebook: India’s Policy Head, Ankhi Das Resigned

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Oct 2020

Facebook: India’s Policy Head, Ankhi Das Resigned

It is reported that in the context of hate speech controversy in the country, Facebook India’s policy head Ankhi Das has resigned.   Earlier, The Wall Street Journal had accused Facebook of their lenient attitude towards the ruling party and their supporters who allegedly violated the hate speech rules with anti-Muslim posts. The paper also alleged that it was Ms. Das who made the controversial...

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“Fake news is not our friend” Facebook

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Jul 2018

“Fake news is not our friend” Facebook

  Facebook is keeping its promise to the valuable members and undoubtedly clarified that it will not remove fake news from its platform because it does not violate its community standards. The Facebook network at present is running an advertising campaign in the UK declaring that “fake news is not our friend”. Facebook clearly stated that removing fabricated posts would be “contrary to the basic...

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FILE - In this Thursday, March 7, 2013 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook wants to get more of the world's more than 7 billion people online through a partnership with some of the world’s largest mobile technology companies. Facebook Inc. announced a partnership called Internet.org on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

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Oct 2016

Facebook will preserve Newsworthiness and Public Interests

Facebook Vice Presidents Joel Kaplan and Justin Osofsky in their announcement said that will consider the newsworthiness and public interest of such posts before removing them from Facebook Timeline. Their corporate goal is to channelize community values and interests; the presidents emphasized. Facebook is consulting the matter with the experts in the respective areas for a better and effective communication of news and public interests....

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