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Instagram without Facebook would have been worth over $100 billion: Report
Tech2 News Staff •The report says that if Instagram were a standalone company it would be worth $100 billion.
Facebook announces new fact-checking measures, to scale to more countries by year end
Ians •The social media giant now has the fact-checking programme running in 14 countries and plans to scale to more countries by the end of the year.
Facebook clarifies how it collects data even when its users are not using the website or app
Ians •Many companies offer these types of services and, like Facebook, they also get information from the apps and sites that use them.
Elon Musk calls for regulation of social media to prevent the proliferation of fake news
Tech2 News Staff •"I think there should be regulations on social media to the degree that it negatively affects the public good. We can't have like willy-nilly proliferation of fake news, that's crazy," said Musk
WhatsApp's condition for admins to share public links only with trusted users in Group Chats leaves it open for data misuse
Nimish •We spoke to Wadhwa about WhatsApp's clarifications and also asked him if a #DeleteWhatsApp movement was actually possible in India, considering the user base.
Facebook increases transparency for electoral ads and Pages to prevent any interference on its platform during elections
Ians •Facebook is also investing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and adding more people to help find advertisers that should have gone through the authorisation process but did not.
Robust legal framework required to tackle issues related to data privacy to avoid Facebook Cambridge Analytica type breach: Researchers
Ians •Looking at the current Facebook crisis, Raymond said Cambridge Analytica's use of data from various Facebook apps really isn't much different; they just gathered the information into a single source.
German minister calls Facebook a 'network of opacity' in light of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal
Ians •The Justice Minister argued that the only way for Facebook to regain lost trust was to allow independent experts and data protection agencies to subject the company's practices to a thorough investigation.
Facebook plans to restrict data access via multiple APIs, logins, to show apps you are connected to at top of News Feed and more
Tech2 News Staff •Facebook will be controlling the data access that third-party apps have when you use Facebook logins or APIs to connect with them.
Govt will wait for Facebook and Cambridge Analytica's responses before taking any action: Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad
•Prasad further said that a UK parliamentary committee is conducting an investigation and added that he did not wish to comment on the views of one of its members.