India is Facebook and its messaging service WhatsApp's biggest market in terms of users, and the firm is under pressure worldwide over the policing of hate speech (Photo: AFP)
17 September 2020
Facebook does not profit from hate speech, the tech giant's India chief said Wednesday,...
Facebook has been in the eye of a political storm in India after the Wall Street Journal reported the site refused to take down anti-Muslim comments by an MP (Photo: AFP)
13 September 2020
Delhi summoned Facebook's India chief Saturday to answer allegations that the social...
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said he fears "an increased risk of civil unrest" after the vote on November 3 (Photo: AFP)
05 September 2020
Facebook said Thursday it will ban new political advertising the week before the US...
T. Raja Singh, a regional lawmaker for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party, was blocked "for violating our policy prohibiting those that promote or engage in violence and hate from having a presence on our platform," a Facebook spokesman said. Photo: Facebook
04 September 2020
Facebook has banned an outspoken right-wing Indian politician for spreading hate speech...
Facebook logo. Photo: EPA
02 September 2020
Facebook has said in a statement that it was preparing for Myanmar's general election in...
Logo of online social media and social networking service, Facebook displayed on a tablet. Photo: AFP
26 August 2020
Facebook says it has shared data with United Nations investigators probing international...
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25 August 2020
An image that claims to show strong support for Myanmar’s ruling party in early overseas...
India is Facebook's biggest global market in terms of users (Photo: AFP)
18 August 2020
Facebook is in the eye of a political storm in India after claims it failed to take...
Nguyen Quoc Duc Vuong had spoken of his support for democracy in Vietnam and shared news of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong before his arrest last year (Photo: AFP)
08 July 2020
A Vietnamese man accused of "defaming" the country's leaders for broadcasting his pro-...
Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: EPA
27 June 2020
Facebook said Friday it would ban a "wider category of hateful content" in ads as the...
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06 June 2020
China said Facebook was unfairly targeting its biggest media companies on Friday after...
Founded in 2015, Gojek started as a motorcycle taxi app before quickly turning into a 'super-app' (AFP Photo/BAY ISMOYO)
04 June 2020
Facebook and PayPal have invested in the Indonesian ride-hailing and digital payment...

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