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A 2019 book titled The Real Face of Facebook in India, co-authored by the journalists Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and Cyril Sam, alleged that Facebook helped enable and benefited from the rise of Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India. [385] Ankhi Das, Facebook's policy director for India and South and Central Asia ...
Facebook launches Facebook Beacon with 44 partner sites at the time of launch. Beacon is part of Facebook's advertisement system that sends data from external websites to Facebook, for the purpose of allowing targeted advertisements and allowing users to share their activities with their friends.
In 2020, Facebook, Inc. spent $19.7 million on lobbying, hiring 79 lobbyists. In 2019, it had spent $16.7 million on lobbying and had a team of 71 lobbyists, up from $12.6 million and 51 lobbyists in 2018. [130] Facebook was the largest spender of lobbying money among the Big Tech companies in 2020. [131]
Facebook launches News Feed. The original news feed is an algorithmically generated and constantly refreshing summary of updates about the activities of one's friends. [40] 2006 Launch Nasza Klasa launches, later rebranded NK.pl peaking in popularity by 2009, becoming the biggest social media in Poland and the 4th most-visited website in the ...
In 2017 the government of Vietnam opened discussions with the government of India on emulating its use of cybersecurity and egovernance. [55] At the launch ceremony of Digital India Week by Prime Minister Modi in Delhi on 1 July 2015, CEOs from India and abroad committed to invest ₹ 224.5 lakh crore (US$2.6 trillion) towards the initiative. [56]
Internet.org is a partnership between social networking services company Meta Platforms and six companies (Samsung, Ericsson, MediaTek, Opera Software, Nokia and Qualcomm) that plans to bring affordable access to selected Internet services to less developed countries by increasing efficiency, and facilitating the development of new business models around the provision of Internet access.
A day after shutting down 'Free Basics' scheme in India, Reddy announced her decision to step down from her post and relocate to the United States in six to twelve months. [17] [18] On 12 February 2016, In her post in Facebook, she wrote: "When my family relocated to India, we knew that we would move back to the US some day.
Koo, an India-based alternative to Twitter, announced it had complied with the law, [3] while Facebook announced its intent to comply. [4] On May 26, WhatsApp took the Indian government to court, stating that they believed the new laws were "unconstitutuional".