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Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday announced the parent company’s name is being changed to “Meta” to represent a future beyond just its troubled social network. The new name is an attempt to focus on the metaverse that Facebook…
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Investor confidence in Facebook weakened a bit on Monday amid continued political pressure and a rare lengthy outage of the company’s apps, sending shares down 4.8% and zapping away billions from CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune.…
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Social media platforms ,WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook are currently down for many users. The three apps – which are all owned by Facebook, and run on shared infrastructure – all completely stopped working shortly before 5pm. Other…
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday filed lawsuits against Twitter Inc, Facebook Inc, and Alphabet Inc's Google, as well as their chief executives, alleging they unlawfully silence conservative viewpoints. The lawsuits, filed…
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Facebook says it has launched a new social media drive that allows people to add frames and graphics to indicate they had taken the COVID-19 vaccine or plan to do so. Adaora Ikenze, Facebook Head of Public Policy for Anglophone West…
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Facebook on Friday  said it would be opening an office in Lagos, Nigeria, as part of its continued commitment and ongoing investment in Africa. Facebook, in a statement made available to newsmen in Lagos, said this would be its second…
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The social networking site, Facebook, has pledged to partner with Federal Government to check the spread of fake news and disinformation in the wake of the outbreak of the Coronavirus in Nigeria. The Minister of Information and Culture,…
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Facebook has expressed readiness to not only fact-check posts and photographs uploaded on its platform from Nigeria and nine other sub-Saharan African countries, but it will also notify users who may try to share such stories. Facebook…
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Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts, pages, and groups from its social network platforms that the company says were involved in coordinated inauthentic behaviour. The tech giant said it removed a total of 443 Facebook and 125…
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Leading journalists from more than 20 countries joined a call Tuesday for European MPs to approve a controversial media reform aimed at forcing internet giants, such as Facebook and Google to pay for news content. European Parliament…
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