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New Measures Target Fake Celebrity Endorsements and Investment Scams Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has announced new measures to curb fake celebrity endorsements and fraudulent financial…
Social media giant Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has been slapped with an unprecedented fine of €1.2 billion by the Irish Data Protection Commission for alleged violations of European Union (EU) data protection…
Meta has decided to discontinue its initiatives related to NFTs on Facebook and Instagram, according to Meta's commerce and fintech lead, Stephane Kasriel, who shared the news on Twitter. Meta spokesperson Joshua Gunter…
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has initiated the rollout of its first paid verification service, testing users' willingness to pay for features that were previously free. The service is being…
Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, has announced the launch of a paid subscription service that will allow users to pay for a blue tick verification badge. The new service, called Meta Verified, will…
Facebook parent Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to resolve a long-running lawsuit accusing the social giant of allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access users’ personal information. The…
Meta Platforms Inc, the parent entity of the social media platform Facebook, has sacked over 11,000 employees, representing about 13 percent of the total workforce. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, announced the…
The Federal Government through its agency, the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON) has sued Meta Platforms Incorporated, owners of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp platforms, for showing unapproved…
Facebook has updated its Community Feedback policy, which will stop fake reviews from appearing on the page of a business. Facebook is writing new rules to prevent fake reviews on its platform. They will be able to…
Lobbying groups representing Facebook, Twitter, and Google filed an emergency request with the US Supreme Court to block Texans from restricting social media platforms from banning users based on their political views.…
Facebook purposefully blocked all news from being posted on its platform in Australia last year, which would cause collateral damage. By doing this, it engaged in a criminal conspiracy to get favourable treatment.…
Facebook has a criterion significant for competition across markets, which grants Germany's regulator more leeway. German lawmakers have introduced legislation which will ban anti-competitive activities. Meta operates a…
Instagram is finally letting Live creators appoint moderators during their streams. Mods will have the ability to report comments, remove viewers from the stream, as well as turn off comments for a specific viewer.…
Barely a week after ban on Facebook in Russia, the country’s communications agency Roskomnadzor announced it will ban Instagram, too. While the Facebook ban cited “discrimination against Russian media,” this time, the…
Alphabet's Google and Facebook owner Meta Platforms are among Internet companies facing possible punitive measures in Russia after failing to open local offices and take other measures required by a communications law.…
The NCC-CSIRT was established in October 2021 to provide guidance and direction for the constituents in dealing with issues relating to the security of critical infrastructure in their possession, and periodically…
WhatsApp will be adding new functionality to its disappearing messages feature, which will let users set messages in a chat to automatically be deleted after a set period of time. As announced by Meta CEO Mark…
A Facebook fan page for Elon Musk with 153,000 followers has been verified as the official page representing the Tesla Technoking — in violation of Facebook’s own rules. To be clear, the page isn’t pretending it’s Musk;…
Facebook has changed its corporate name to Meta as part of a major rebrand. The company said it would better “encompass” what it does, as it broadens its reach beyond social media into areas like Virtual Reality (VR).…
Microsoft announced Thursday it will shut down its local version of LinkedIn in China as the country continues to expand its censorship of the internet. LinkedIn was the last major U.S.-operated social network still…
