Myanmar police have arrested one American and two locals after photos on Facebook led them to a huge plantation of towering marijuana plants near Mandalay. Pictures of the fields of weed started circulating on the platform last week — a rare sight online in a country where police photos of seized heroin and methamphetamine are […]
Bharatiya Janta Party’s open violation of Indian Election Commission’s Silence period on Facebook
The ruling Bharatiya Janta Party has committed a violation of the legal rules set by the Indian parliament. The violation falls under the Section 126(1) of the Representation of the People Act 1951 which clearly states that “no person shall display to the public any election matter by means of cinematograph, television or other similar […]
Facebook says it stored ‘millions’ of unencrypted Instagram passwords
Facebook says it stored “millions” of unencrypted Instagram passwords on internal servers “Millions” of Instagram users had their passwords stored in unencrypted form on internal servers, Facebook said Thursday, raising its original estimate of tens of thousands. “We discovered additional logs of Instagram passwords being stored in a readable format. We now estimate that this […]
Man arrested on wife’s complaint for overnight facebook use
In a unique development, a man was arrested over wife’s complaint for overnight usage of facebook in Mardan on Wednesday. The wife alleging her husband of chatting with girls on the facebook whole night filed complaint at the Mardan Police Station against him. The police acting on the complaint woman’s complaint arrested her husband. Reacting […]
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by massive outage
Social networking services Facebook and Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp Sunday evening faced a global outage, including in Pakistan. All three major social media platforms, which have more than two billion users worldwide, went inaccessible after the outage reported from Pakistan as well as many other countries including India, United Kingdom and Europe. Facebook and […]
Ayushmann Khurrana to find music talent via social media
Actor-singer Ayushmann Khurrana is set to connect with his fans over music as he is launching a social media contest that will see him give an opportunity to amateur artistes to jam with him. He will bring this activation on Facebook. “I always wanted to do something that combines the power of music and social […]
ISPR reacts to allegations by Facebook: Blocked accounts not linked to the military
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) has reportedly expressed reservations over Facebook’s claims about links between blocked accounts and the military, expressing its disappointment at the social media giant’s assertion that the blocked accounts were “ISPR-managed”. They added that Facebook had itself admitted that no questionable content was shared from the accounts. Local TV channels report […]
Facebook opens Innovation Lab in Pakistan at LUMS
Facebook and Pakistan’s Ministry of Information Technology & Telecom along with the National Technology Fund (IGNITE) launched the first Facebook Innovation Lab in Pakistan at a ceremony attended by policy makers and technocrats on Wednesday (3 April 2019). Located in the National Incubation Center (NIC) at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), the Innovation […]
Facebook deletes accounts linked to India’s Congress, Pakistan military
Facebook has deleted 712 accounts and 390 pages in India and Pakistan for ‘inauthentic behaviour’, it said on Monday, many of them linked to India’s opposition Congress party days before a general election, and others related to Pakistan’s military. Facebook has come under increasing pressure around the world to ensure its social media platform is […]
Facebook’s changing face
The ghastly scenes of the live shooting of the Christchurch mosque are doing the rounds online till this day. Though New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern refused to take the name of the terrorist, the face of the white supremacist refuses to go away. His notoriety hit almost every mobile phone screen the world over, […]