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6 Mar
Meta platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and Messenger, stopped working for several hours across the globe yesterday. While some users wondered whether the platforms were hacked when they suddenly stopped working..
5 Mar
Users of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger have poured out their lamentations after the three social media platforms suddenly stopped working on Tuesday afternoon.
16 Feb
Social media platform Meta is working to detect and label AI-generated images on Facebook, Instagram and Threads as the company pushes to call out “people and organisations that actively want to deceive people.”
5 Feb
Meta owned Facebook yesterday clocked 20 years boasting of over three billion active users across the globe, which is equivalent of 57 per cent of global Internet users and 38 per cent of global population.
26 Jan
Social media platform, Meta, has unveiled new features targeted at restricting how teens receive messages on Facebook and Instagram. Meta said the new measures are being rolled to build on its earlier policy restricting people above 19 from messaging teens, who are not following them.
28 Sep 2023
Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC), Command of the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT), has alerted the public of a fake Facebook account created in the name of the agency by fraudsters.
24 Sep 2023
It is no news that social media directly affects our state of mind. Vinton Cerf and Robert Khan who are credited with inventing the Internet probably never considered the psychological impact of their invention. Martin Cooper, who developed the first hand-held phone, also played a part in this by making phones portable, so that we…
5 Sep 2023
Social media giant Meta said on Tuesday it would pull the plug on the Facebook News tab in December in its biggest European markets, the UK, France and Germany.
22 Aug 2023
Facebook and Instagram users in Europe will have greater control over how they view content, Meta said on Tuesday, as platforms take steps to meet imminent stricter European Union rules. Under a landmark EU law, digital giants will be forced to more aggressively police content online to protect users, especially against hate speech and disinformation.…
19 Jul 2023
Social media networks like Facebook and Instagram were back online in Ethiopia on Wednesday after being blocked for five months, according to an internet advocacy organisation and an AFP journalist.
11 Jul 2023
Networks of fake Facebook accounts run from China are "evolving" and adopting new tactics in their quest to sow discord overseas, the social media platform told Australian lawmakers Tuesday.
9 Jul 2023
In the era of social media dominance, where the scroll of a thumb can make or break a brand, influencer marketing has become the talk of the digital town. The days of traditional advertisements featuring celebrity endorsements are long gone. Welcome to the age of influencers — individuals who hold the power to sway consumer…

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