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WhatsApp, the popular instant messaging platform, has revealed a new feature that enables users to edit messages even after they have been sent. The groundbreaking capability allows individuals to modify their messages…
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…
WhatsApp has announced the introduction of three new security features, aimed at preventing unauthorized access to users' accounts. The instant messaging app has been introducing these new features in a bid to make it…
Giant tech company, Meta, has launched a payment feature on its messaging service, WhatsApp, that enables users and local businesses in Brazil to make payments. The announcement was made by the company on its website on…
Meta Platforms’ WhatsApp has reached an agreement with the European Commission to provide greater transparency regarding its privacy policy changes introduced in 2021. This follows complaints from consumer bodies across…
Facebook's Instagram now has 2 billion monthly active users worldwide, which is only 0.5% of Facebook's 2.96 billion monthly users. This sign shows that people are paying more attention to the thriving Instagram app…
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…
WhatsApp now has the feature of muting people in group calls. This will be useful when people forget to mute themselves and you want to avoid hearing an echo of what they are saying. Some conferencing apps may not offer…
WhatsApp is adding an option for users to edit messages after they are sent. It would help them rectify issues with their messages, such as typos or accidentally sending the wrong message, without completely deleting…
WhatsApp recently rolled out a beta update that lets users request their account information on WhatsApp desktop. This has been implemented to comply with European legislation called General Data Protection Regulation…
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…
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…
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).…
A Bolt driver has eaten part of the food he's meant to deliver and the lady who booked the ride is furious about his conduct. According to the lady who is a food vendor, she had requested a Bolt ride to deliver the food…
Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg has apologised for the "disruption" caused after its social media services went down for almost six hours - impacting more than 3.5bn users worldwide. The billionaire said sorry after…
The Telegram messaging app is facing reported issues as WhatsApp and Messenger users flood across to it during the widespread Facebook outage. With WhatsApp now down for hours, thousands of new users have signed up to…
Amid the outage Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are currently facing, Twitter is now the hotspot of social communication Twitter has seemed to celebrate as the outage at Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp has sent people…
Facebook-owned services, WhatsApp and Instagram, are down on Monday, leaving some three billion online users frustrated and unable to connect all over the world. The social tools including Facebook’s own Messenger…
A man has lost £20,000 in a cryptocurrency scam to someone he met on a dating app. In May, a British man James Evans met a friendly man called David on dating app Grindr. The two became close and their conversation…
A Male Electrical Engineering 500-Level student of the University of Port Harcourt, Prince Digbani has committed suicide shortly after announcing it via his WhatsApp story. The student had taken the action in his room…
