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Thailand’s military government on Tuesday toned down threats to block online access to Facebook, saying the social networking giant has cooperated in removing thousands of website links to content deemed as violating the nation’s strict royal defamation law.Last week Thai broadcast regulators gave Facebook a Tuesday deadline to take down
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PanARMENIAN.Net - Facebook has come under fire after leaked documents revealed the social media site has been targeting potentially vulnerable children, The Independent reports.The allegations suggest the company is gathering information on young people who “need a confidence boost” to facilitate predatory advertising practices.Confidential documents obtained by The Australian reportedly
Read More ROYAL THAI POLICE yesterday defended their response to a horrific video clip of a father murdering his baby daughter that remained on Facebook Live for almost 24 hours before it was removed.Police Colonel Krissana Pattanacharoen, deputy national police spokesman, said the Technology Crime Suppression Division alerted the Ministry of Digital
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PHUKET: A man hanged his 11-month-old daughter then himself in Sakoo, south of Phuket International Airport, late yesterday afternoon (April 24) in a video broadcast live on Facebook in what police believe was an act of jealousy.The alarm was raised by Jiranuch “Bew” Trirat, 21, who called police at 6:30pm
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At around 01:30am on Friday April 21st, emergency services were called to a housing estate in Pattaya to help a Thai lady who had slashed her wrist live on facebook.The incident occurred in the victims house on the outskirts of central Pattaya. When the emergency services arrived, she had already
Read More A fourteen-year-old boy has been arrested by Chicago Police for live streaming the sexual assault of a fifteen-year-old girl on Facebook.The charges include aggravated sexual assault and manufacturing and disseminating child pornography. The boy is the first to be taken in by police, but the police are anticipating arrests for
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PanARMENIAN.Net - Facebook Inc is giving the camera a central place on its smartphone app for the first time, encouraging users to take more pictures and edit them with digital stickers that show the influence of camera-friendly rival Snapchat, Reuters says.With an update scheduled to take effect on Tuesday, March
Read More Facebook will begin showing ads in the middle of its videos, with publishers set to get a majority cut of the revenue.The social media giant will give video publishers the opportunity to show ads in their videos, and will give users a 55 percent cut of all sales, industry sources
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