An Artificial Intelligence tool has put social media giant Facebook in trouble after it identified Black men being shown in a video as "primates"

#Facebook has apologised and disabled the tool, and has also launched an investigation

Services of #Facebook, #Instagram, and #WhatsApp are coming back online after several hours of disruption that impacted millions

The users of the platforms remained clueless as they repeatedly received error messages for the most part of the day.

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The outages at #Facebook, #WhatsApp and #Instagram occurred because of a problem in the company’s domain name system, a relatively unknown -- at least to the masses -- but crucial component of the internet.

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Facebook CEO #MarkZuckerberg publicly addressed a recent series of negative stories about the company by saying that accusations about #Facebook prioritizing profit over user safety are “just not true."

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In the last two months, the Centre has blocked over 60 social media accounts, including #YouTube channels and #Facebook and Instagram pages, for spreading anti-India fake news.

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#Russia is blocking Meta Platforms Inc's #Facebook, the country's communications regulator said, in response to what it said were restrictions of access to Russian media on the platform.

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#Facebook-owner #MetaPlatforms Inc said on Friday it was exploring a standalone decentralized social network for sharing text updates.

https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/facebookowner-meta-explores-decentralized-social-network-app-for-text-updates-11678425202622.html

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According to the July report by Datareportal, more than 40% of respondents said they have consumed digital news on #Facebook within the past week — the highest among all platforms.

The Indian mother of two children who traveled to a remote village in #Pakistan — Anju — has now converted to #Islam, renamed self as Fatima, and married her #Facebook friend.

https://www.livemint.com/news/india/indian-married-woman-anju-travels-to-pakistan-weds-facebook-friend-after-converting-to-islam-11690288896311.html

#Meta could start charging users its European users around $14 per month for an ad-free subscription to #Instagram and #Facebook.

The report notes that Meta officials have shared the plan privacy regulators in Ireland, digital competition regulators in Brussels along with EU privacy regulators.

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Social media apps #Facebook and #Instagram have resumed services after a short outage on 5 March.

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#Meta is finally rolling out its AI chatbot, the #MetaAI assistant, to users in India through its own applications like #WhatsApp, #Facebook, #Instagram and #Messenger as well as a separate website at Meta.AI.

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Meta, in a restructuring of its Reality Labs division, has initiated job cuts which are expected to impact over 1,000 employees. According to Bloomberg, the employees were notified of the layoffs starting Tuesday morning.

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