Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has intensified its efforts to fight fake engagement and content impersonation by deleting over 10 million fake profiles and taking action against about 500,000 spam accounts in the first half of 2025. In a blog post on Monday, Meta explained that this is part of a broader campaign to […]
Meta has banned a prominent Muslim news page on Instagram in India at the government’s request, the account’s founder said yesterday, denouncing the move as “censorship” as hostilities escalate between India and Pakistan. Instagram users in India trying to access posts from the handle @Muslim — a page with 6.7 million followers — were met [&he...
Following recent threat by leading social media giant, Meta, to shut down Facebook and Instagram in Nigeria over the $290 million (about N464 billion) fine imposed by three regulatory agencies, there are palpable fears that the socio-economic activities of most Nigerians would be negatively impacted, even as direct and indirect employees of...
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, has said it may be forced to shut down its operations in Nigeria after a tribunal insisted that it must pay the $220 million slapped on it in July 2024. Meta was also asked to pay the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) an additional $35,000 as […]
Tech giant Meta reported quarterly profits well above expectations yesterday, brushing aside market worries that its heavy investments in cloud computing and artificial intelligence would hamper growth. The company reported a $16.6 billion profit in the first three months of the year on revenue of $42.3 billion, with business spending on ads r...
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) Tribunal has upheld a $220 million fine against Meta Platforms Incorporated and WhatsApp over discriminatory data practices against Nigerian users. The ruling delivered by a three-member panel led by Thomas Okosun also ordered the tech giant to reimburse the FCCPC the sum of $3...
Meta on Thursday said it had laid off 20 workers for leaking information to the media, as the social media giant faces pressure over the recent political shift of its boss Mark Zuckerberg towards US President Donald Trump. “We tell employees when they join the company, and we offer periodic reminders, that it is against […]
•Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg Meta has agreed to pay President Donald Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit he filed claiming he was wrongfully censored by Facebook and Instagram after the US Capitol riot, the company said yesterday. The Wall Street Journal first reported the settlement of the suit brought against Meta and […]...
An Irish regulator helping police European Union data privacy said today it had fined Facebook-owner Meta 251 million euros ($263 million) for a data protection failure that saw Facebook accounts hacked. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) criticised Meta for a security flaw in its video upload function which hackers were able to exploit to g...
Google, Meta, X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, Microsoft and social media platforms operating in Nigeria have paid N2.55 trillion ($1.5 billion) in taxes to FG in the first six months of 2024, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has said. NITDA in a statement today said data from the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS...
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