Australia said on Thursday technology giants such as Facebook Inc (FB.O) and Google (GOOGL.O) will have to agree to new rules to ensure they do not abuse their market power and damage competition, or the government will impose new controls on them. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) will […]

WhatsApp has announced it will soon stop working on millions of phones around the world as they reach the end of their supported lifespan. That means users on a variety of older handsets could end up losing access to the messaging app. Facebook-owned WhatsApp has confirmed via its support page that it will stop supporting […]

Facebook Inc. said on Monday that it had introduced an option to transfer photos and videos from the social media network directly to other services, starting with Google Photos. The option will be available to users in Ireland, with a worldwide roll-out planned for the first half of 2020. All data transfers will be encrypted […]

Amnesty International issued a scathing indictment of the world’s dominant internet corporations, arguing in a new report that Google and Facebook should be forced to abandon what it calls their surveillance-based business model because it is “predicated on human rights abuse.” The London-based global rights group said in the 60-page report published Thursday that the […]

Sometime in June 2019, a widow, identified simply as Chichi,   received a friend’s request on her   facebook page which she accepted. Sadly, her acceptance turned out to be her greatest undoing five months later, as the stranger turned out to be a fraudster. Before she realised what was happening, Chichi had been defrauded of   N2.4 million. The 25-year-old suspect, Sunday Ijegalu, who hails from Enugu State, has however been arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS.

By Vincent Ujumadu Police detectives attached to the Awada Division of the Anambra State Police Command have arrested 22 year -old David Maduabuchi believed to be a specialist in swindling vulnerable teenage girls on Facebook. Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, in the state, Mr. Haruna Mohammed confirmed on Wednesday that Maduabuchi, who was arrested at […]

By Vincent Ujumadu POLICE detectives attached to the Awada Division of the Anambra State Police Command have arrested a 22-year-old scammer, David Maduabuchi believed to be a specialist in swindling vulnerable teenage girls on Facebook. Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, in the state, Mr Haruna Mohammed confirmed Wednesday that the scammer, Maduabuchi, who was arrested […]

  Facebook Inc (FB.O) removed 3.2 billion fake accounts between April and September this year, along with millions of posts depicting child abuse and suicide, according to its latest content moderation report released on Wednesday. That more than doubles the number of fake accounts taken down during the same period last year, when 1.55 billion […]

It would have been a stress-free and successful operation but the plan was foiled by some residents of the community who noticed the fishy act and rescued the victim from being robbed.

Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Tuesday it was launching Facebook Pay, a unified payment service through which users across its platforms including WhatsApp and Instagram can make payments without exiting the app. The social network said the service would allow users to send money or make a payment with security options such as PIN or […]

Victor Ogunyinka “I know that this is going to be your headline, but the roads are not that bad,” those are the words of Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola on the state of roads in Nigeria. The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, said on Wednesday that Nigerian roads are not as bad as […]

Facebook will pay a £500,000 fine imposed by the UK’s data protection watchdog for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. As part of the deal, Facebook will make no admission of liability.

 Facebook says it has intensified efforts to combat the use of hate speech on its platform.

Facebook Chief Executive Officer, Mark Zuckerberg is expected to appear before the United States Congress today to defend “Facebook’s Impact on the Financial Services and Housing Sectors,” but there are reports the interview will be more focused on Facebook’s “Project Libra”. Project Libra was introduced by Facebook earlier in June. It was proposed as a […]

An antitrust investigation into Facebook ramped up on Tuesday with the announcement that 47 state attorneys general from across the U.S. have joined the New York-led probe.