Facebook News & Updates

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Facebook has expanded the ability to apply to jobs directly on its platform to more than 40 countries including India.
Facebook’s job application feature was first rolled out in the US and Canada in 2017. Unlike Microsoft’s LinkedIn, Facebook is focused to draw in candidates for small- and medium-size businesses with its job application feature.

Facebook Jobs now available in India: How to get started

 

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San Francisco, Facebook is testing a new feature called "Add Voice Clip" that appears in its status update composer menu that allows users to record a short audio snippet to use as a status update.

The new feature was first spotted by an Indian user and the social media giant is testing "Voice Clips" as a status update option with a small percentage of users in the country.


Facebook testing 'Voice Clips' status updates for Indian users - ET Telecom

 

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South Korea's telecommunications regulator is fining Facebook 396 million won (approximately $396,706) for slowing users' connections in 2016 and 2017.

Facebook hit with fine in South Korea for limiting user access

 

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Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, shared Zuckerberg’s post and added her own comment: “We know that this was a major violation of peoples’ trust, and I deeply regret that we didn’t do enough to deal with it.”

Mark Zuckerberg apologises for Facebook's 'mistakes' over Cambridge Analytica

 

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The lawsuits are piling up against Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data misuse and political ad targeting scandal.

According to SF Gate the company has been hit with four suits in federal courts so far this week following fresh revelations about how Facebook’s app permissions were abused to surreptitiously suck out vast amounts of user data.

Facebook hit with shareholder lawsuits over data misuse crisis

 

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Facebook has been collecting call records and SMS data from Android devices for years. Several Twitter users have reported finding months or years of call history data in their downloadable Facebook data file.

Facebook has been collecting call history and SMS data from Android devices

 

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Facebook boss apologises in newspaper ads

 

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Facebook is in trouble again after users reported instances where they discovered videos that they had never posted on the website.

Facebook users find videos that they never uploaded in archive

 

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https://soundcloud.com/joshsc%2Fzuckerberg

Highlights and audio from Zuckerberg’s emotional Q&A on scandals