Facebook video reunites family after 48 years
Habibur Rahman was 30 years old when he left home for a business trip and never returned.
18 January 2020, 13:27 PM
Facebook says investigating data exposure of 267m users
Facebook says it is investigating a report that a database containing names and phone numbers of more than 267 million users was exposed online.
20 December 2019, 05:16 AM
Singapore invokes 'fake news' law for first time over Facebook post
Singapore political figure Brad Bowyer corrects a Facebook post questioning the independence of state investment firms following a government request, in the first use of the country's new "fake news" law.
26 November 2019, 05:37 AM
Facebook would have let Hitler post anti-Semitic ads: British comedian
Adolf Hitler would have been able to put anti-Semitic advertisements on Facebook had the social network existed in the 1930s, according to British comedian and actor Sacha Baron Cohen.
23 November 2019, 05:16 AM
Amnesty International calls Facebook, Google rights abusers
Amnesty International issues a scathing indictment of the world’s dominant internet corporations, arguing in a new report that Google and Facebook should be forced to abandon what it calls their surveillance-based business model because it is “predicated on human rights abuse.”
21 November 2019, 04:47 AM
Facebook removes 3.2b fake accounts
Facebook Inc removes 3.2 billion fake accounts between April and September this year, along with millions of posts depicting child abuse and suicide, according to its latest content moderation report.
14 November 2019, 04:59 AM
Facebook unveils news tab to combat spread of fake news, appease critics
Facebook is taking its most dramatic step to date to combat the spread of fake news on the far-reaching platform by introducing a "News" tab on its US user interface that will serve up stories from credible news organisations.
26 October 2019, 07:37 AM
Facebook researchers use maths for better translations
Designers of machine translation tools still mostly rely on dictionaries to make a foreign language understandable. But now there is a new way: numbers.
13 October 2019, 04:42 AM
Facebook hides 'likes' in Australia trial to ease anxiety
Facebook has begun hiding the number of "likes" for posts in Australia, it says, a trial designed to ease social pressure that could be rolled out worldwide.
27 September 2019, 05:28 AM
Facebook unwilling to open office in Dhaka
Facebook has denied to set up any office or install its local service in Bangladesh right now as the market size is not sustainable here enough.
23 September 2019, 14:03 PM
No response from Facebook, Google, YouTube
The government has failed to bring Facebook, Google, YouTube and other digital platforms under its tax network three months after
22 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Govt to push Facebook for opening Dhaka office
Bangladesh will insist on Facebook opening an office in Dhaka and getting a VAT registration from the National Board of Revenue when the government meets with officials of the social media giant in September, Post and Telecom Minister Mustafa Jabbar said yesterday.
28 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Facebook to hold meeting with Govt in Sept
Facebook has approached the government for a discussion to fix some issues, Posts and Telecommunication Minister Mustafa Jabbar said today.
28 August 2019, 14:26 PM
Facebook adds Chakma language after Bangla
Social media giant Facebook has recently added Chakma language as a second language option from Bangladesh after Bangla.
16 August 2019, 16:06 PM
Facebook to unveil new cryptocurrency
Facebook is set to unveil a bid to bring cryptocurrency payments into the mainstream, reportedly with the endorsement of governments and financial giants.
18 June 2019, 11:36 AM
Facebook suspends app pre-installs on Huawei phones
Facebook Inc is no longer allowing pre-installation of its apps on Huawei phones, the latest blow for the Chinese tech giant as it struggles to keep its business afloat in the face of a US ban on its purchase of American parts and software.
7 June 2019, 06:39 AM
Facebook rejects co-founder call for breakup, senator urges US antitrust probe
Facebook Inc quickly rejects a call from co-founder Chris Hughes to split the world's largest social media company in three, while lawmakers urged the US Justice Department to launch an antitrust investigation.
10 May 2019, 06:29 AM
Digital Security Act: JnU student remanded over FB comments
A student of Jagannath University has been placed on a two-day remand in police custody in a case filed under Digital Security Act over a Facebook post.
12 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Facebook, Google face widening crackdown over online content
Tech giants like Facebook and Google came under increasing pressure in Europe when countries proposed stricter rules to force them to block extreme material such as terrorist propaganda and child porn.
9 April 2019, 08:24 AM
Facebook chief wants 'more active' govt role in regulating internet
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg calls for governments to play a "more active role" in regulating the internet, urging more countries to adopt versions of sweeping European rules aimed at safeguarding user privacy.
31 March 2019, 11:30 AM