Tag Archives: Facebook

Facebook-owned services, WhatsApp and Instagram, are down on Monday, leaving some three billion online users frustrated and unable to connect all over the world.

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Facebook is ready to launch a digital wallet that would let users store cryptocurrencies, a senior company executive said in a US media interview Wednesday.

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Facebook banned President Donald Trump from the platform “indefinitely” due to the US leader’s efforts to incite the violence in the US capital this week, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday.

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As part of its focus in bringing people together and building communities, Facebook (www.Facebook.com) today announced the 12 African community leaders who have been selected to join Facebook’s Community Accelerator (https://bit.ly/2Wj59Hp), a six-month programme that aims to equip communities with the training, mentorship, and funding they need to grow. As part of the global Facebook Community Leadership initiative launched in 2018, the …

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Facebook Inc (FB.O) will invest 300 million dollars over three years in local news globally as it faces blistering criticism over its role in the erosion of the news business worldwide. “The investment in time and money is a significant expansion of a plan to help newsrooms in the U.S. and abroad create and sustain viable business models to survive,’’ …

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Tayo Olanipekun Activities on social media networks Facebook, Google Mail, Twitter, WhatsApp and Instagram lead on the list of what Nigerian children do on the internet, a report has shown. While globally, children were said to be more likely to watch video content and listen to music than spend time on social media, kids in Nigeria are most active across …

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Tayo Olanipekun As the Cambridge Analytical scandal continues to plague Facebook, with President Muhammadu Buhari reportedly one of the victims of data theft before the 2015 elections, founder of the social media giant, Mark Zuckerberg, has said his company has “a responsibility to protect” and will guard users’ data. In a statement on his personal Facebook page on Wednesday night, …

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An ex-convict, Surajudeen Adeleke Balogun has been arrested by men of the Ogun State police command for impersonating an Ogun State Director of Finance on Facebook. The suspect, a fashion designer from Ijebu Ode in Ogun State posed on Facebook as a staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) staff with the picture of the said Finance Director through …

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Tayo Olanipekun Facebook has said it will change how posts from businesses, brands and media appear on its site, making them less prominent than the messages shared by family and friends. The Chief Executive, Mark Zuckerberg, explained on his page that organizations will witness a decrease in the popularity of their posts when the change takes effect in few weeks’ …

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A former Facebook executive has admitted that he bans his children from using the site – saying he feels ‘tremendous guilt’ for his part in creating the service now used by billions of people. Chamath Palihapitiya, former vice president for user growth, said, “We have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works.” He had …

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