•Tinubu, Sowore and DSS The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 election, Omoyele Sowore, has filed two fundamental rights actions at the Federal High Court, Abuja, against the Department for State Services (DSS), social media giants Meta (Facebook) and X Corp. According to a statement released by his legal ...
A former top security executive at WhatsApp filed a federal lawsuit yesterday alleging that parent company Meta systematically violated cybersecurity regulations and retaliated against him for reporting the failures. Attaullah Baig, who served as head of security for WhatsApp from 2021 to 2025, claims that approximately 1,500 engineers had unr...
Meta Platforms has paused hiring in its artificial intelligence division after bringing on more than 50 researchers and engineers, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. “All that’s happening here is some basic organisational planning: creating a solid structure for our new superintelligence efforts after bringing people on board and unde...
Meta today said it shut nearly seven million WhatsApp accounts linked to scammers in the first half of this year and is ramping up safeguards against such schemes. “Our team identified the accounts and disabled them before the criminal organisations that created them could use them,” WhatsApp external affairs director Clair Deevy said. Often r...
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...
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