IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has said that WhatsApp and its parent company Meta have not informed the government of any plans to shut down its services in India. He was replying to a question raised in the Rajya Sabha recently.“[The] Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has shared that WhatsApp or Meta has not…
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has removed down 63,000 Instagram accounts based in Nigeria, taking down a widespread sextortion racket . The company announced on that these accounts were engaged in financial sextortion scams, primarily targeting adult men in the United States.The crackdown, which occurred in late May, focused on a network…
Mark Zuckerberg-owned Meta rolled out its Meta AI chatbot to WhatsApp, Instagram and other platforms last month. The artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot appears to be struggling with a basic mathematics question. When asked ‘which is bigger 9.9 or 9.11’, Meta AI on WhatsApp responded ‘9.11 is bigger than 9.9’. On further asking to explain why…
NEW DELHI: Delhi high court on Tuesday took a dim view of Meta’s complaints redressal mechanism and said its functioning was “far worse than a govt department.”It was hearing a plea by a media house against blocking of its Instagram page by Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, for alleged copyright violations.“Please…
WhatsApp has told the Delhi High Court that the messaging platform will effectively shut down in India if it is forced to break message encryption. The Meta-owned company said that the end-to-end encryption protects user privacy by ensuring only the sender and recipient can access message content. “As a platform, we are saying, if we…
HONG KONG: Apple said it had removed Meta‘s WhatsApp messaging app and its Threads social media app from App Store in China to comply with orders from Chinese authorities. The apps were removed Friday after Chinese officials cited unspecified national security concerns. Their removal comes amid elevated tensions between the US and China over trade,…
Meta‘s AI-powered image generator consistently fails to create accurate images of interracial couples and friendships, according to a report by The Verge. The tool struggles to generate images for simple prompts such as “Asian man and Caucasian friend” or “Asian man and white wife,” instead of producing pictures of people of the same race, even…
Meta’s communications director, Andy Stone, has strongly denied the accusations that Facebook allowed Netflix to read DM of users on its platform. In a post on the social media website X, formerly Twitter, Stone wrote, “Shockingly untrue, Meta didn’t share people’s private messages with Netflix. The agreement allowed people to message their friends on Facebook…
