Social information processing

Sri Lanka on March 7 blocked access to Facebook and suspended internet services in a troubled central district after police warned that rioters were using social media to spread anti-Muslim sentiment.

A Chicago woman who was in a café in Paris during the 2015 terrorist attacks is sueing Twitter, Facebook and Google, claiming that they had helped to expand the Islamic State group by giving it access to social media, the Associated Press reported.

The Chicago Sun Times newspaper reported that Mandy Palmucci has filed a lawsuit in Chicago last week.

Facebook has come under fire in Turkey for not removing a video broadcast by a 26-year-old man showing the scene shortly after he killed three people.

Europe’s justice commissioner told Facebook, Twitter and Google on Feb. 15 to do more to bring their user terms in line with EU law, ramping up pressure on the tech giants after their efforts were deemed too little.

Facebook has launched a community leadership program that will award $10 million in total to more than 100 people who have successfully built groups on the social network as part of its push to create “meaningful” interactions, Facebook’s Head of Groups and Community Jennifer Dulski said on Feb. 9.

Facebook said on Monday it will open three new centers in Europe to train people in digital skills and is committed to training one million people over the next two years, part of the social media giant's drive to show its contribution to the bloc./ TIME

The Facebook Social Network introduces a major change in its policy. Consumers will start to see far fewer ads at the expense of more photos and posts from friends, BNT said.

In recent years, Facebook has begun to show more and more brands, media and celebrities. A series of criticisms, however, caused algorithm to be changed at the expense of contacts with real people.

Facebook, in a bow to transparency, has announced plans to declare certain ad revenues in the country where they are made and not in Ireland, where it has a greater tax advantage.

Google was a major source of online media traffic forwarding, but Facebook managed to overtake it. Now, however, Google regains its dominance in this area, writes Re/Code.

At some point in 2017, the search engine has become a major source of external page views, according to new data from Parse.ly's  digital analytics firm.

US company Facebook opens a new office in London this week by making the British capital the most important engineering center outside the US with the creation of 800 jobs, the company said.

More than 2,300 people will work for Facebook in the UK.