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These categories include bullying and harassment, child endangerment, dangerous organisations and individuals, and adult nudity and sexual activity. Over 11.6 million content pieces were actioned by Facebook during January, which included content related to spam (6.5 million), violent and graphic content (1.8 million), adult nudity and sexual activity (1.4 million), and hate speech (28,600). Facebook's parent company recently changed its name to Meta.

Twitter said it has notified the impacted account holders of its action taken in response to a legal request from the Indian government, while Facebook did not comment on the issue. Twitter removed or restricted access to more than 50 posts in the past month at the behest of the government, including tweets that criticized its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Earlier this year, more than 500 accounts were suspended and access to hundreds of others in India blocked after the government ordered the microblogging platform to restrain the spread of misinformation and inflammatory content related to farmers' protests.

Facebook Inc created the board in response to criticism of its handling of problematic content, but researchers and civil rights groups have faulted it for its limited remit. The move will open the process up for any user, including Facebook employees, to refer to another`s content, the board's administrative director, Thomas Hughes, said in a phone interview. The board said the new option was being rolled out beginning on Tuesday and would be available to all users in the coming weeks.

Facebook has also been under scrutiny by the CMA for antitrust concerns over the technology company`s acquisition of the GIF website Giphy. It has been under pressure the world over for its data-sharing practices as well as fake news and hate speech. CMA`s crackdown on Facebook coincides with Britain`s efforts to set up a dedicated digital markets unit within the regulatory authority to specifically look at governing digital platforms.

The company also removed more than 12 million pieces of content about COVID-19 and vaccines that global health experts flagged as misinformation, it said in a blog post. False claims and conspiracies about the coronavirus vaccines have proliferated on social media platforms including Facebook and Twitter during the pandemic.

Some accounts "were focused on celebrities" and others on "political debate," the Facebook said.

According to Digital Trends, the latest hack involves the use of browser extensions.

The social media giant this week released its third quarter earning and buried in those results, it disclosed that there are tens of millions more fake and duplicate accounts than it had previously thought, The Telegraph reported on Saturday. 

Facebook has said it has started weeding out bogus accounts by watching for suspicious behavior such as repetitive posts or torrents of messages.  

The spy, also known as Nand Lal Garg, revealed during interrogation that he used the two accounts to communicate with his sources in the border areas.

Islamic State (IS) recruiters are actively targeting and attempting to recruit Australian teenagers via social media, a study of the Facebook posts of the radical group shows.

Bollywood actress Manisha Koirala recently warned her fan following against 'many fake' Facebook accounts on her name.

New York prosecutors have secured more than $18 million in a series of fraud cases using warrants to access hundreds of Facebook accounts, a move the social medial firm says was unconstitutional and is still fighting.

If you think excessive Facebook use by your spouse is behind your divorce, then you may be right, says a study.