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MEITY Grievance Appellate Committees

The IT Rules of 2021 say that Social Media Companies such as Facebook should compulsorily appoint Grievance officers. These officers should be from India. They will oversee the...

January 28, 2023

Competition (Amendment) Bill

The Competition Act aims to promote healthy competition in India. The main intention of the act is to avoid monopoly. Take Facebook for instance. Some economists are of...

January 26, 2023

Instagram Amber Alerts to find Missing Children

Recently, Meta announced to roll out ‘AMBER alerts’ to Instagram across 25 countries. Key Facts AMBER alerts will help users to get notifications of missing children in the...

June 4, 2022

UK Digital Markets Unit

In the United Kingdom, large tech companies like Facebook and Google will have to follow the new competition rules, or else huge fines will be imposed on them...

May 9, 2022

European Union New Internet Rules

The European Union finalized new legislation that will require the world’s big tech companies to remove harmful content. This is the latest move of the union to regulate...

April 26, 2022

WWF Report on Online Wildlife Trade

The World Wildlife Fund has released a report stating that in Myanmar illegal purchases of wildlife online are increasing which is causing a threat to both endangered species...

April 4, 2022

Texas: Legal Suit on Facebook facial recognition

On February 14, 2022, attorney general office of Texas sued Meta’s (FB.O) Facebook, after alleging that it has violated state privacy protections with facial-recognition technology. Highlights Facebook was alleged that,...

February 15, 2022

What is a Deccahorn?

Deccahorns are private firms whose value exceeded over ten billion USD. Recently Swiggy has become the fourth Indian company to earn the tag. The other three companies that...

January 27, 2022

World’s fastest AI supercomputer

According to Facebook parent company Meta, its new “artificial intelligence supercomputer” will be the fastest across the world, by the middle of year 2022. Highlights Meta introduced the...

January 25, 2022

Facebook rebrands as ‘Meta’

Facebook Inc. has changed its name and logo to Meta Platforms Inc. on October 28, 2021. Highlights Facebook Inc. has been renamed to Meta Platforms Inc., or Meta...

October 30, 2021

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