Users in countries ranging from Brazil and Russia to Vietnam and Myanmar reported on social media that WhatsApp was down in their countries.
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“I am surprised at these Internet giants saying one day that, let’s say, $5,000 was spent on some political advertising, and the next day they say that 40 million US citizens, voters turned out to be under the influence of some Russian social and political ads,” Ryabkov told reporters.
Under the new rules, political advertisers will be required to verify their identities and locations and their posts will include a disclosure which reads: “Paid for by”
During the inauguration in Lagos, Abi Williams, Facebook’s SMB Sales Manager, EMEA, said the council would be part of Facebook’s ongoing commitment to supporting SMB throughout Africa.
“A warm and cosy bath last night turned out to be too hot and cosy,” the 49-year-old academic said in a Facebook post on Thursday.
Facebook said it partnered with restaurants including Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc, Jack in the Box Inc, Five Guys and Papa John’s International Inc.
“We’re aware that some people are presently having trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible,” a Facebook spokesperson told Reuters.
The pope said that the Catholic Church needed to accept responsibility “before God, victims and public opinion” for its own sex abuse scandals, but wanted to share the lessons it had learned.
News reports in recent days forced the Social Democratic Party to admit that one of its staffers was involved in covertly setting up Facebook pages that sought to discredit conservative front-runner Sebastian Kurz.
Grace Meng, New York’s first Asian-American member of Congress, posted a message on Facebook recently blasting the game for using the most “negative and demeaning stereotype” that she has ever come across, slamming it as racist
In an online statement, Twitter said it had looked at around 450 accounts shared by Facebook, after that social network conducted a similar investigation, and found that 22 had corresponding Twitter accounts
Zuckerberg’s post at Facebook on Wednesday came after Trump accused the social network of bias in a morning tweet that read: “Facebook was always anti-Trump.The Networks were always anti-Trump hence,Fake News, @nytimes(apologized) & @WaPo were anti-Trump. Collusion?”
Ladipo alleged on Sunday that the fraudsters have opened Facebook accounts with his name in Port-Harcourt, Lagos and Abuja, fraudulently telling some innocent people on the social media platform to pay some amount of money to him (Ladipo) to become members of the Nigerian Football Supporter’s Club.
Acton spent eight years with WhatsApp, which Facebook bought in 2014 for $19 billion in cash and stock.
The Prosecutor, Rafiu Aroyewun, Assistant Director, Directorate of Public Prosecutions, Lagos State Ministry of Justice, told the court that the accused committed the offences in Agege area of Lagos sometime in August.
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Incumbent President, Uhuru Kenyatta, is running against his arch rival and veteran opposition leader, Raila Odinga.
The company said in a statement on its website it will start using updated machine learning to detect possible hoaxes and send them to fact checkers, potentially showing fact-checking results under the original article.
Baba was arraigned before Magistrate Ahmed Dasuki for posting on his Facebook account messages that disparaged and defamed Saraki.
Over the past few years, the telecoms sector has experienced rapid growth and, in June 2016, constituted 9.8 per cent of Nigeria’s GDP, but this growth has now stalled, with the sector at a strategic crossroad. Several factors have converged simultaneously, which could materially impact the industry and undermine its potential to drive economic growth and stimulate the Nigerian economy as a whole.