San Francisco, July 11 : Facebook is testing a feature that will identify malicious accounts sending unwanted direct messages to you on its Messenger platform.
According to a report in Motherboard on Wednesday, the feature when it goes live will provide additional information about direct messages from unknown contacts.
"We are testing a way to provide people with more context on folks they may not have connected with previously," Facebook's Messenger team told Motherboard.
The feature is geared up to fight scams and unsolicited messages from accounts using fake or misleading identities.
"It can notify a user when an unsolicited message was sent from a Messenger account that's not paired with an official Facebook one," The Verge reported.
Facebook is grappling with privacy issues like the Cambridge Analytica data scandal involving 87 million users and another bug that changed 14 million users' privacy setting defaults to public.
In yet another privacy goof-up, Facebook has admitted that over 800,000 users were affected by a bug on its platform and Messenger that unblocked some people these users had blocked.
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Jailed gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari passed away on Thursday at the age of 60. Ansari had been admitted to a hospital in Banda district after experiencing a deterioration in his health, as confirmed by his lawyer.
According to reports, Ansari was initially admitted to Banda Medical College on Tuesday after complaining of abdominal pain. However, he was later discharged from the hospital. Allegations from Ansari's family members suggest that he may have been "poisoned" while in prison, a claim supported by Ansari himself prior to his hospitalization.
Ansari, a former five-time MLA from Mau, had faced convictions in eight cases over the past two years. He had been incarcerated in Banda jail at the time of his passing.