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In 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the United States launched an anti-trust lawsuit against Facebook in conjunction with…

In an age where digital giants like Google and Facebook dominate the advertising landscape, South Africa is at a critical…

Meta has announced it will abandon its fact-checking program, starting in the United States. It was aimed at preventing the…

For more than a decade, researchers and journalists have relied on a digital tool called CrowdTangle to track and fight…

 As the election approaches, we’ll activate a South Africa-specific Elections Operations Centre to identify potential threats and put mitigations in…

“You have blood on your hands.” “I’m sorry for everything you have all been through.” These quotes, the first from…

Meta has announced that it will automatically restrict the content visible to teen Instagram and Facebook accounts. Starting today, these…

Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, has challenged tech conglomerate Meta to deal with misinformation and called for fair treatment…

by Casey Fiesler, University of Colorado Boulder Twitter’s move on July 1, 2023, to limit the number of tweets users…

by Anjana Susarla, Michigan State University Takeaways: A new federal agency to regulate AI sounds helpful but could become unduly…

Meta is in the early stages of building a decentralised, standalone dedicated app for people to post text-based updates to…

The use of the Metaverse is expected to balloon in 2023 as tech firms seek to unlock new opportunities within…

When Facebook reinvented itself into Meta in October 2021, it was widely reported that Meta would be focusing on virtual…

Meta announced the launch of “Creators of Tomorrow” on Tuesday. Creators of Tomorrow is a new campaign that celebrates emerging talents…

Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp now allows you to delete messages for up to two days after they are sent. Previously,…

Meta on Monday announced the return of its global campaign ‘Made by Africa, Loved by the World’, which was first…

MTN partners with IWF, Meta, ICMEC and Child Helpline International to launch the Help Children be Children campaign and Child Safety…

Heralded as the next frontier of the Internet, the metaverse is the vision of a persistent 3D virtual world where…

South Africa’s Competition Commission (the Commission) has referred social media giant, Meta Platforms Inc – previously known as Facebook Inc…

Meta is expanding the availability of Facebook Reels for iOS and Android to more than 20 countries across sub-Saharan Africa.…

Niantic, the developer of the world’s first and only planet-scale augmented reality platform like Pokémon GO, has bagged $300 million…

The metaverse is a network of always-on virtual environments in which many people can interact with one another and digital…

Facebook changed its corporate name to Meta as part of its bet on the next digital frontier called the metaverse.…