Facebook has been complying with a request by the government of India and removing “inflammatory and hateful content” that has caused tens of thousands of people to flee their homes due to fears of retaliation for communal violence in the northeastern state of Assam that left at least 78 dead, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Lisa Raphael (left), the social media producer at Katie Couric's daytime talk show Katie, is one of our featured speakers in Mediabistro's upcoming Social Media Marketing Boot Camp, an online event and workshop starting June 6, 2013. Lisa will share a case study on how the hit show uses Twitter to build interest and buzz around upcoming segments. Learn more about our our twelve event speakers and register here. 
The World Map of Social Networks has been updated to reflect June 2012 statistics, and it was posted on Vincos Blog. You likely won’t be surprised that Facebook still reigns supreme globally.
A criminal case in India involving Facebook and several other Internet companies moved one step further, as executives from the involved firms were summoned to appear before a trial court in the country Sept. 22, but a petition for dismissal before the Delhi High Court is set to be heard Aug. 7.
Facebook overtook Orkut to became Brazil’s top social network in January, but has only overtaken all of Google’s properties in that nation just this month.
Here’s Experian Hitwise’s assessment of much of a behemoth Facebook is in the U.S. and other markets.
Facebook scored another victory in the battle against Google, by usurping Orkut’s former dominance of social media in Brazil.
Facebook has introduced a feature to allow users to link their accounts with Japanese social network Mixi.
Facebook has won the battle of the social networking sites almost everywhere except Brazil and India where Google-owned Orkut is still a force to be reckoned with. But now Facebook has made a tactical move aimed at Orkut users in those two countries.
