An unprecedented international grand committee comprising 22 representatives from seven parliaments will meet in London next week to put questions to Facebook about the online fake news crisis.
Mark Zuckerberg, during a press call, had said the company's engineering team, on September 25, found an attack affecting up to 50 million accounts on Facebook.
Brian Acton and Jan Koum started WhatsApp that was acquired by Facebook for $22 billion. Brian Acton quit Facebook a year ago, followed with Jan Koum in April.
After PM Imran Khan called on overseas Pakistanis to contribute for a fund set up to build Diamer-Bhasha dam, an imposter, claiming to be Mark Zuckerberg, has pledged, on twitter, to contribute $5 million for the dam fund.
In a post, Zuckerberg said that Facebook started on the platform sanitising project in 2017 and "even this work will extend through 2019, I do expect us to end this year on a significantly better trajectory than when we entered it".
In his opinion piece for Washington Post, Zuckerberg said firms like his Facebook and others are facing "sophisticated, well-funded adversaries who are getting smarter over time."
"Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about publishers but is giving me a lot of leeway and concessions to make these changes" says Facebook's Head of News Partnerships Campbell Brown. He reportedly said that publishers who choose not to work with Facebook will wind up in a dying business.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: "Over the next 18 months, there are important elections beyond the US in Brazil, India, and the EU, and these will all be real tests for Facebook," Zuckerberg said during a recent investor call.
Facebook, however, is not alone in aiming to increase Internet accessibility through satellites in low Earth orbit. Elon Musk's SpaceX and Softbank-backed OneWeb are two other prominent names who have similar ambitions.
Mark Zuckerberg is facing backlash again on social media for refusing to ban Holocaust deniers on his platform.
Investors are also happy at the news that Facebook has grabbed its biggest sports streaming deal yet with the Premier League.
In a 229-page document addressed to US Congress in the wake of Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal, Facebook revealed that it had investigated building the technology, Fortune reported on Wednesday.
Facebook in a 225-page document admitted that it collects information from and about computers, phones and connected devices which even includes mouse and various other services.
According to the report citing court documents and unnamed sources, Facebook gave data access to some companies while "others were cut off".
The problem, which Facebook said it has fixed, is the latest privacy scandal for the world's largest social media company.
Facebook introduced the Trending feature in 2014 aiming to help people discover news topics that were popular across the community. But for this feature that show a collection of headlines, the social networking giant soon faced allegations of political bias.
The social media giant is facing criticism for its role in enabling political manipulation in several countries around the world.
The chief executive intends to say that Facebook did not do enough to prevent the social network from being used for harm, according to an excerpt from his prepared remarks.
After the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Facebook has warned investors that more users' data scandals in the future may adversely affect the social networking giant's reputation and brand image.
Twitterati compared Mark Zuckerberg's eyes to marble, after the joint hearing of the members of the US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee at the Capitol Hill.
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