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Court orders Meta to cut ties with content moderation firms in Kenya
The case brought against Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has taken a new twist after the High Court in Kenya ordered…
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[24Bit Podcast] The State of Paying for Social Media in 2023
This is a discussion of the different aspects of social media, how things have changed to the extent in which…
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Meta’s lawsuit In Kenya changes course as more content moderators go to court
The friction between social media giant Meta and African-based content moderators has taken a new twist after 43 content moderators…
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Meta introduces paid subscription on Facebook and Instagram
Meta has announced the introduction of a new subscription service that allows users to get the coveted blue badge against…
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Facebook’s content moderation partner Sama quits amid court battle
Sama, Facebook’s content moderation partner in Africa has announced that it’s exiting content review services to focus on data annotation,…
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Meta fined $414 Million for violating EU user privacy law
Meta has been slapped with €390 million — about $414 million – fine for breaching EU personal data laws on…
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Meta laying off more than 11,000 employees
On Wednesday this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company is laying off 13% of its staff. This…
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Kenyans to start paying 16% VAT on Facebook ads from November 1
Meta, Facebook’s parent company has announced that all Facebook ads in Kenya will be subject to value-added tax (VAT) VAT…
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Meta Launches Creators of Tomorrow Initiative to Support Emerging Artists
Facebook’s parent company Meta has launched “Creators of Tomorrow”, an initiative aimed at supporting upcoming artists utilizing its platforms, specifically…
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The Government Has No Plans To Suspend Facebook, ICT CS Joe Mucheru says
ICT CS Joe Mucheru dismissed threats by the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) to shut down Facebook ahead of…
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A company called META is suing Facebook for stealing its name
The world is just about to witness a David v Goliath court battle between one of the largest companies that…
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Amazon to sue 10,000 Facebook groups over fake reviews on its platform
Ecommerce giant Amazon announced Monday that it has sued administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups for orchestrating fake reviews…
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SA Competition Commission questions Facebook and Google’s dominance
All big tech companies such as Facebook, Google, Uber and Airbnb have taken a dominant spot in nearly all the…
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Meta to slow down hiring by 30% in 2022
The raging economic downturn isn’t sparing anyone; not even giant-sized enterprises such as Meta, Facebook’s parent company. The company said…
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Nigeria is working on a law that could hinder use of social media
The Federal Government of Nigeria is working on a law that could overwhelmingly affect the consumption of social media in…
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Meta Wants Case Filed in Kenyan Court by Former Employee Dropped
A few weeks ago, we reported that Facebook is being sued in Kenya by a former employee citing poor working…
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Kendi Ntwiga Appointed Global Head of Misrepresentation at Meta
Kendi Ntwiga, a distinguished leader in the ICT sector who’s worked at top level multinationals has been appointed Global Head…
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Facebook Sued in Kenya Over Poor Working Conditions
A former employee of social media giant Facebook has sued the California-based company for allegations of poor working conditions at…
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Facebook is shutting down its podcasts platform
Facebook is pulling out of the podcast business and creators will no longer be able to upload new shows to…
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Meta outlines steps to promote elections integrity during the Kenya 2022 elections
Meta has today outlined some of the work it’s been undertaking to promote election integrity for the Kenya elections on…
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Mark Zuckerberg to introduce Zuck Buck virtual currency
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is considering introducing virtual coins “Zuck Bucks,” to help reward users of its social media platforms.…
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Political advertisers on Facebook and Instagram in Kenya will now be required to prove their real identity
Anyone seeking to run political ads on Facebook and Instagram in Kenya will now be required to prove their identity…
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Meta officially rolls out Facebook Reels to users across Africa
Last week we reported that Meta had launched Reels on Facebook for users in Africa. This is after we spotted…
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Facebook Reels now available to users in Africa
Facebook Reels: Instagram officially launched Reels in August last year to take on TikTok. Instead of disappearing after 24 hours…
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Safer Internet Day: 5 Safety Tips to promote a more empowering experience for youths online
Safer Internet Day: You will have a more empowering experience online, when you’re sharing with the people you care about…
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Meta launches a WhatsApp chatbot for SMEs in Africa
Meta has announced the launch of a new WhatsApp chatbot to help SMEs across Africa learn how to grow their…
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[This Week In Tech] Facebook changes its corporate name to Meta and other top stories
This has been quite an interesting week for tech. We covered so many interesting stories from across Africa and the…
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Facebook is reportedly changing its name
Facebook is reportedly planning to rebrand next week according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter. The company…
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[24Bit Podcast] A Discussion with Facebook’s Alex-Handrah Aime on the company’s connectivity initiatives and investments in Africa
In this episode, Nick Kanali sits down with Alex-Handrah Aime. Director, Network Investments – Emerging Markets at Facebook to discuss…
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Wanderlust Diaries and Teachers’ Notice Board Kenya among winners of $50K Facebook’s 2021 Community Accelerator Program in Africa
Wanderlust Diaries Ltd, a Kenyan Facebook group that brings together a community of travelers to share stories is among the…
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Mark Zuckerberg lost more than $7 billion after Facebook went down on Monday
In just a few hours after WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram crashed on Monday evening, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is said…
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WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Are All Down
Looks like all the popular social media apps WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger are all down. Users from different…
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Facebook, Big Cabal and Comic Republic launch campaign to tackle fake news in Nigeria
Social media giant Facebook has announced a new partnership with Big Cabal Media and Comic Republic to launch a new…
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Andela Learning Community Surpasses 100,000 Learners
Tech talent company Andela has announced that its developer learning community. Andela Learning Community (ALC) has now surpassed 100,000 learners.…
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How To Apply For The Facebook and Reuters Free Digital Journalism Course
In May this year, The Facebook Journalism Project and Reuters launched a free e-learning program to support journalists across Africa…
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Liquid Intelligent Technologies and Facebook Partner to Build a Fibre Network in DRC
Liquid Intelligent Technologies and Facebook have announced a partnership to build an extensive long haul and metro fibre network in…
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CYBER SECURITY
Personal Data of Over 500 Million Facebook Users Leaked Online
Facebook’s history of handling users personal data is nothing short of disgusting. Following the massive data leak concerning the Cambridge…
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Facebook and WHO Launch Covid-19 Misinformation Campaign Acrosss Select African Countries
Facebook has today launched a new Covid-19 misinformation campaign in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) across a number…
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Facebook Grants Users More Control over What They See in News Feed
Social media giant Facebook wants to give users more control over what they see on the platform in its algorithmic-driven…
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Tech
Smart Glasses Could Help Combat Climate Change, Facebook’s CEO Believes
Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO at Facebook, believes augmented reality technology could help address the rising climatic change concerns that…
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Facebook expanding transparency on Political Ads in Kenya and Ethiopia
Facebook is expanding two initiatives focused on increasing transparency and controls on social issues, electoral, and political ads to more…
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Apps
Facebook’s New App Lets Users Rap to Premade Beats
I bet you didn’t see this coming. But neither did I. Facebook has launched a new app that lets users…
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Facebook Bans Myanmar Military Group after Coup
Facebook has indefinitely banned a Myanmar military group that staged a coup on February 1st, overthrowing the rightfully elected government.…
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Facebook Launches Product to Register and Support Journalists in Kenya
Facebook has launched a product for journalists to register with the platform to receive features and tools designed to support…
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Facebook Seeks to Join the Newsletter Trend
Newsletters are booming. In 2020 the Post published a story on the growing trend of journalists giving up their jobs…
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Facebook’s ‘Supreme Court’ will Review Trump’s Indefinite Suspension
Facebook’s oversight board, formed last year, will look at the social media company’s decision to suspend the account of former…
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Facebook Shuts Accounts of Top Ugandan Officials Ahead of Election
In the latest edition of the social media ban, Facebook has admitted shutting down accounts of top government officials in…
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Trump Banned from Facebook and Instagram ‘indefinitely’
After what happened in the US Capitol on Wednesday night, Donald Trump has had a rough 48 hours on the…
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Social Media
Twitter and Facebook Suspend US President Donald Trump’s Account
Following last night’s events, Twitter has taken bold moves suspending US President Donald Trump ‘s account over “repeated and severe…
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Apps
WhatsApp Voice and Video Calls Hit an All-time High on New Year’s Eve
2020 was anything but a crazy year for the human race due to the novel coronavirus. The pandemic occasioned an…
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Apps
Facebook to begin testing Revamped Instagram Lite
Facebook is back with another version of Instagram Lite after the company shut the lightweight app earlier this year. Instagram…
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Blockchain
Facebook-backed Cryptocurrency Libra has been Renamed Diem
Facebook-led Libra cryptocurrency has been renamed, Diem. The independent association behind the project, which comprises 27 members, has also been…
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Blockchain
Facebook Libra Cryptocurrency to Launch in 2021
Facebook’s Libra ambitions to enable seamless transfer of cash and digitizing the financial world in its unique fashion were met…
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Apps
Facebook Buys Customer Service Startup, Kustomer, for $1 Billion
Facebook has reached an agreement to acquire Kustomer, a customer relationship management platform that enables businesses to manage their customer…
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Facebook Fined $6 million for Sharing User Information without Consent in South Korea
The South Korean watchdog launched in August this year has slapped America’s social media mammoth Facebook with a 6.7 billion…
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Facebook Partners with Creative Garage to Support Kenyan Creatives
Facebook is joining forces with Creative Garage, a social enterprise working with creatives, to launch a new campaign. Through the…
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Apps
Facebook’s Dating Service Expands to 33 More Countries
Facebook Dating is now available in Europe. The social media giant’s dating service has been to date only available in…
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Facebook To Open New Offices in Lagos, Nigeria
Facebook is setting up shop in Lagos, Nigeria. The new office is the company’s second in the African continent but…
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Social Media
Facebook Avatars Officially Launched in Kenya
Social media giant, Facebook, has launched Avatars in Kenya and the wider Sub-saharan Africa region. Avatars, according to Facebook, is…
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Apps
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Admits Copying Features from Rival Apps
Big tech is facing intense scrutiny from US regulators. America big four tech companies – including Facebook Inc., Amazon Inc.,…
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Social Media
Two Kenyans Selected to join the Facebook Community Accelerator Program
Facebook has today announced the 12 African community leaders who have been selected to join its Community Accelerator. Facebook’s Community…
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CYBER SECURITY
Facebook Continued to Share User Data With Developers Longer Than Promised
Facebook has come clean, saying they shared user data with third-party developers longer than they had promised. The US Social…
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The Facebook Ad Boycott Campaign is Gaining Steam
Advertisers around the world are joining the Facebook ad boycott organized by several civil rights and other advocacy groups. In…
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BUSINESS
WhatsApp Debuts A Digital Payments System in Brazil
The Facebook-owned instant messaging app, WhatsApp, has just launched a digital payments service in Brazil. Through the payment service which…
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Facebook Launches Programme To Meet Digital Literacy Needs Across Sub-Saharan Africa
Facebook has today launched a new digital literacy programme designed to equip young people across Sub-Saharan Africa with digital skills…
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Scientists Funded By Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Urge Facebook To Do More On Misinformation
Over 400 scientists funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative have in an open letter sent to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg…
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Facebook starts labelling posts by ‘state-controlled media’
Tech giant Facebook has begun labeling posts by state-controlled media on its platform to notify users. These labels will be…
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Facebook and Red Cross Launch Campaign Calling for Vigilance against Covid-19 in Africa
Facebook and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement are partnering to launch #AfricaTogether – a digital campaign and…
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Facebook Wants To Verify the Identity of People Behind High-Reach Profiles
Facebook plans to start verifying the identity of individual accounts that regularly go viral on the platform. In a blog…
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Social Media
Donald Trump Signs Executive Order Targeting Tech Companies
US President Donald Trump has yesterday signed an executive order aimed at cracking down on tech companies like Google, Facebook…
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BUSINESS
Facebook Partners With Telcos To Build A 37000km, 180Tbps Undersea Cable To Serve Africa
Facebook has partnered with several telcos in Africa to bring faster internet connectivity. The social media giant together with a…
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Apps
Facebook SDK Bug Crashes Major iOS Apps including Spotify, TikTok and Tinder
Last night several iOS users took it on Twitter complaining about app crashes. The most affected apps were major apps…
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Maina Kiai among 20 members appointed to the Facebook oversight board to moderate content
Kenya’s Maina Kiai is among the three Africans that have been appointed as Board Members to the newly created Oversight…
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Blockchain
Facebook Scales Back Ambitious Libra Project, Plans To Launch Later in 2020
Facebook Inc., together with its partners, is now scaling back on the Libra project which was marketed as futuristic global…
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Facebook launches its Coronavirus Information Center in Kenya and 16 other African countries
After launching in South Africa, Facebook is now expanding its Coronavirus Information Center to 17 more countries in sub-Saharan Africa.…
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Google and Facebook: Coronavirus Outbreak To Result In Less Content Moderation
The ongoing pandemic has had its adverse effects on the human population as well as the economy. More people have…
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Facebook Revenues Adversely Affected By Coronavirus Pandemic Despite Usage Growth
With various countries under total lockdown, internet usage has recorded a sudden increase which is nearly overwhelming the infrastructure. Social…
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Facebook Sued In Australia Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Barely a year after the FTC reached an agreement with Facebook to settle the Cambridge Analytica issue, the issue is…
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Social Media
Facebook Sues Namecheap For Allowing Registration Of Domains That Could Be Mistaken For Its Products
Facebook has sued Domain registrar, Namecheap, together with WhoisGuard, the company’s proxy service. The lawsuit claims that the domain registrar…
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Facebook Cancels Its 2020 F8 Developer Conference Due To Coronavirus Outbreak
The Novel Coronavirus outbreak has put the world to a standstill. Conferences have been cancelled, and some companies have closed…
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Facebook To Ban Misleading Ads On Corona Virus
Facebook will ban all ads that mislead people about the on-going novel coronavirus outbreak. The company says they will ban…
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Shopify Joins Facebook-led Libra Association, Months After High Profile Members Exit
Facebook Libra has received the first new member, ever since the exit trend kicked off in the wake of regulatory…
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CYBER SECURITY
Facebook Promises To Improve User Data Security After Several Breaches
Facebook has promised that they will improve their security protocol to ensure user data is safe, after several breaches. The…
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Blockchain
Vodafone Quits Facebook Libra Association, To Focus On M-Pesa Expansion To More Countries
Facebook’s Libra project has been heavily criticized over the parent’s company issues with how it handled customer data in the…
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Apps
TikTok was the Second Most Downloaded App in 2019, Surpassing Facebook and Messenger
TikTok has been, with no doubt, one of the most popular apps in 2019. This has been advantageous to the…
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CYBER SECURITY
Phone Numbers Of 267 Million Facebook Users Exposed Online In A Data Breach
Millions of Facebook users have had their data being exposed online. This follows a discovery by security researchers who found…
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Facebook Wants To Build Its Own Operating System To Cut Reliance On Android
Being the social media giant of this era, Facebook also wants to reduce dependence on other companies and competitors as…
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Facebook Can Still Track You Even with Location Settings Off
Facebook can still track you even with your location settings off, the company admitted in a letter to US senators.…
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Social Media
Facebook Might be Blocked From Integrating WhatsApp, Instagram, And Messenger
Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced that the company plans to unify all of its three platforms – WhatsApp, Instagram, and…
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Facebook rebrands its parent company with a new logo
Facebook is just Facebook, but that is not true. The parent company, Facebook Inc., owns three different social media platforms,…
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Social Media
Facebook says it will let UK election candidates run false Ads
In what comes as no surprise, Facebook has said it will allow UK political candidates to run fake ads on…
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BUSINESS
Forget the Critics; Facebook Keeps Growing
Despite all the criticism thrown at Facebook, the company keeps going bigger, making ends meet in terms of revenue. The…
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Twitter is Working on Policy Changes To Combat Deep Fakes
As good as Artificial Intelligence sounds, and actually is, it also comes with its cons. One of the biggest threats…
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Blockchain
Libra Season About to End? Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Mercado Pago Call it Quits
Barely a week after PayPal exited the Libra Association; other U.S payment companies have followed suit. As on Friday 11th,…
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Social Media
Facebook Expands its Third-Party Fact-Checking Programme To 10 Countries Across Sub-Saharan Africa
After launching its Third-Party Fact-Checking Programme in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Cameroon, and Senegal, Facebook is expanding the program in…
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Facebook has opened a small Business Group Operations Centre in Nigeria
Facebook in partnership with Teleperformance, has announced the opening of its first Small Business Group (SBG) Operations Centre in Lagos,…
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Blockchain
PayPal Pulls out of Facebook’s Libra Association
In addition to troubles Facebook has been going through over sceptical regulators around the world, PayPal Holdings Inc. has pulled…
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News
New Proposed Bill Will Require WhatsApp and Facebook Group Admins To Be Registered with CA
A new Bill headed to Parliament this week could require all Facebook and WhatsApp group administrators to be registered with…
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News
Facebook suspends tens of thousands of apps over the Cambridge Analytica Scandal
As an update to the on-going crackdown on apps with access to user info, Facebook has suspended tens of thousands…
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Blockchain
France says it will block Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency in Europe
Two months later since Facebook officially announced its planned launch of own cryptocurrency Libra, many jabs have been thrown at…
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CYBER SECURITY
Facebook Confirms Millions of users’ Phone Numbers have been Exposed Online
Facebook has confirmed the news reports that millions of phone numbers linked with Facebook user accounts have been exposed. The…
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