Few would have predicted that short video loops of Kanye West or cats furiously typing on laptops would be the final straw for competition regulators. Yet on Tuesday, the U.K. ordered Meta Inc.’s Facebook to sell Giphy, the animated file search engine it bought for $315 million in 2020, in part because the deal would attract […]Read More
The social network platform which rose to prominence over two decades ago announced Thursday that it is renaming itself. The Mark Zuckerberg company will now be known as Meta, a nod to its future digital frontier Metaverse, a fusion of different digital worlds. Speaking at a virtual event to showcase Facebook’s technological plans for the future, […]Read More
Facebook has confirmed it will continue to ban Taliban content from its platforms as it considers the group to be a terrorist organisation. The company says it has a dedicated team of Afghan experts to monitor and remove content linked to the group. For years, the Taliban has used social media to spread its messages. […]Read More
Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he filed class-action lawsuits against tech giants Facebook, Twitter and Google — along with their CEOs, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and Sundar Pichai — because of bans imposed on him and others. “We’re demanding an end to the shadow banning, a stop to the silencing, a stop to […]Read More
Many users of the popular instant messaging platform, WhatsApp, woke up to a surprising status update on their phone. The Facebook-owned company in its bid to promote its commitment to privacy updated every users’ status. It started the update notifying its users; “WhatsApp is now on the status! We’ll let you know about new features […]Read More
Google-owned YouTube on Tuesday temporarily suspended President Donald Trump’s channel and removed a video for violating its policy against inciting violence. “In light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to Donald J. Trump’s channel for violating our policies,” YouTube said in a statement. The channel is now “temporarily prevented from uploading […]Read More
Facebook on Thursday said it disabled over three billion fake accounts between September and March as part of an effort to enforce content standards. The social networking platform said it disabled 1.2 billion fake accounts in the fourth quarter of 2018 and 2.19 billion in the first quarter of this year. The company also said […]Read More
Facebook has partnered Dubawa, a Nigerian Online platform, to intensify the fight against fake information in the country. Adaora Ikenze, Facebook’s Head of Public Policy for West and Central Africa said on Monday that the partnership came following the recent launch of Facebook’s Third-Party Fact-Checking programme. The Third-Party programme is to help assess the accuracy […]Read More
Facebook is tightening the rules of political advertising on its platform in countries with big elections to be held in 2019, such as India, Nigeria, and Ukraine, Reuters reported. The company is taking such measures in order to counter interference with the electoral process, the source noted. According to Katie Harbath, director of global policy […]Read More
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is pushing back against calls for him to step down as chairman and hoped to continue working with his longtime chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg. Zuckerberg made the comments during a TV interview on Tuesday that addressed the controversies pertaining to the social-media giant. In the CNN interview, Zuckerberg said […]Read More
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