1 Sep 2023
Users on microblogging platform, X (formerly Twitter), will be able to make voice and video calls on the platform, anytime soon.
3 Aug 2023
From doctored photos making small crowds big to posts praising government accomplishments that never were, WhatsApp has become the channel of choice for disinformation in Zimbabwe before this month's elections.
4 Jul 2023
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp may need to overhaul how they collect the data of users in Europe after the top EU court ruled against parent company Meta on Tuesday. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled in favour of Germany's anti-cartel watchdog, which had argued that it could take data privacy issues into account when…
1 Jun 2023
A Russian court imposed a fine on US messenger service WhatsApp on Thursday for failing to delete banned content. The three-million-rouble ($37,000) fine was the first imposed on WhatsApp for such an offence. WhatsApp's parent company, Meta, was banned and branded "extremist" by Russian authorities last year. Meta's other platforms, Facebook and Instagram, were blocked…
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