Facebook

What is the metaverse, why does Facebook want in and how will it work?

The term “metaverse” seems to be everywhere. Facebook is hiring thousands of engineers in Europe to work on it, while video game companies are outlining their long-term visions for what some consider the next big thing online. The metaverse is the latest

October 26, 2021

Facebook, Instagram and Messenger are back up and running after a social media blackout.

Technology

Facebook, Instagram And Messenger Are Back Online

Facebook, Instagram and Messenger are back up and running after a social media blackout. The sites and apps have been down for hours and Facebook’s CTO explained it was because of ‘networking issues’. But the sites have slowly been coming back online

October 4, 2021

Technology

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger down

WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook have all gone down in a major outage. The three apps – which are all owned by Facebook, and run on shared infrastructure – all completely stopped working shortly before 5pm. Other products that are part of the same

October 4, 2021

Breaking News·United States

Facebook, TikTok and Twitter to remove posts hoping for Donald Trump’s death

As reaction to President Trump’s positive coronavirus test floods social media, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok have a message to users: Wishing for the president to die is not allowed. All three tech companies confirmed that such posts will be removed for violating

October 3, 2020

Nigeria

Tech Giant Facebook to fight coronavirus fake news in Nigeria

Facebook has said it is running a fact-checking pilot in Nigeria to help stop the spread of fake news about coronavirus Report Focus News has learnt . The social media giant says it will use its messaging app – WhatsApp – to

March 18, 2020

Technology

Millions of Facebook user phone numbers exposed online

More than 267 million Facebook user phone numbers, names and user IDs were exposed in a database that anyone could access online, adding to a long list of privacy and security mishaps that continue to plague the world’s largest social network. Researchers

December 19, 2019

Breaking News·Technology

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faces Congressional grilling on Libra

In a hearing with plenty of criticism aimed at Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, Kentucky Republican Andy Barr lodged a defense of the company’s attempt at innovation in financial services. He said: Criticism is cheap. Anybody can criticize. As you can see here

October 23, 2019

Technology

PayPal first company to drop out of Facebook cryptocurrency Libra

PayPal has become the first company to pull out of an alliance that is trying to launch Facebook’s digital currency Libra. PayPal announced in a statement on Friday afternoon but did not specify what had prompted the decision. Libra and its digital

October 5, 2019

Technology·United Kingdom

Facebook teams up with police to stop streaming of terror attacks

Facebook on Tuesday teamed up with the London police as part of an increased effort to thwart live-streams of terror attacks such as the New Zealand mosque massacre. A self-professed white supremacist used a head-mounted camera in March to broadcast live footage

September 18, 2019

Technology

Facebook Paid Contractors to transcribe users’ audio messages without permission

Facebook has become the latest tech giant to face scrutiny over its handling of users’ data, following a report that said the social media giant been paying hundreds of contractors to listen to and transcribe users’ private audio chats, some of which

August 14, 2019

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