Facebook blocks Thai access to group critical of monarchy
Facebook has blocked access in Thailand to a million-member group discussing the monarchy, after the Thai government threatened legal action. The firm told the BBC...
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Zuckerberg Loses $7 Billion as Firms Boycott Facebook Ads
(UTV | COLOMBO) – Bloomberg – Mark Zuckerberg just became $7.2 billion poorer after a flurry of companies pulled advertising from Facebook Inc.’s network. Shares...
CCC together with Citibank and Facebook Hosts Webinar on Sri Lanka Tourism and Way Forward
(UTV | COLOMBO) – The global pandemic of COVID-19 has pushed socio-economic structures into a standstill and has challenged globalization and global operations of enterprises....
Two arrested for spreading false news on Facebook
(UTV|COLOMBO) – Two suspects arrested by CID from Ragama & Bandaragama for spreading false rumours on Coronavirus through social media. Meanwhile Facebook had stated that...
Hong Kong protests: Twitter and Facebook remove Chinese accounts
(UTV|COLOMBO) – Twitter and Facebook have taken steps to block what they described as a state-backed Chinese misinformation campaign. Twitter said it removed 936 accounts it said...
Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp suffer outages
(UTV|COLOMBO) – Social networks Facebook and Instagram, as well as messaging service WhatsApp, were reportedly unavailable today for more than three hours. The website Down Detector...
Facebook needs to do lot more, says New Zealand PM
(UTV|COLOMBO) – New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday that Facebook needed to do a lot more to curb hate propaganda after the social...
Facebook to ban white nationalism and separatism
(UTV|COLOMBO) – Facebook has said it will block “praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism” on Facebook and Instagram from next week. The social...
Zuckerberg outlines plan for ‘privacy-focused’ Facebook
(UTV|COLOMBO) – Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has said he believes secure, private messaging services will become more popular than open platforms. In a blog, Mr Zuckerberg...
Facebook fraudster arrested in Polonnaruwa
UTV | COLOMBO – Polonnaruwa Crime Prevention Unit has arrested a youth who had swindled money through the Facebook, entering into the accounts of others....