Meta Platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger, have been restored after a global outage lasting over an hour, according to a spokesperson for the tech giant. Meta’s Andy Stone apologized…
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Here we stand, 76 years after our independence and 16 years since the restoration of democracy in Pakistan—yet not a single election has occurred without serious allegations of rigging, and…
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The Cyber Crime Wing of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) investigated and detained a man for harassing a teenager on Facebook. The FIA spokesperson said Muhammad Ashraf was found harassing…
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Popular instant messaging platform WhatsApp will let users combine related or similar chat groups under ‘Communities’ – a new feature to be introduced soon. The app said it was releasing…
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Facebook has said that it has identified more than 400 malicious Android and iOS apps this year that target people across the internet to steal their Facebook login information. The…
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India on Monday (06 June 2022) reissued new rules on social media in response to rights violations. The country last week released a draft of changes to its IT law…
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Facebook has decided to start a pilot program regarding monetization of videos in Pakistan. Ministry of Information Technology (IT) officials have also confirmed the development. Sources have said that Facebook…
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Facebook is launching its short video feature Reels to more than 150 countries, its owner Meta Platforms (FB.O) said on Tuesday, in a move to expand its fastest growing content…
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Technology that merges the virtual and physical worlds could start to become a reality for consumers in a few years, Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O) has told advertising agencies,…
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Facebook and Google are under growing pressure to better balance privacy and ad-targeting — with their fortunes at stake as users rebel, regulators loom and Apple pounces on the moment…
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Facebook’s parent company Meta said on Monday it was launching one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers to boost its capacity to process data, despite persistent disputes over privacy and…
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From the YouTube videos we’re recommended to deciding who gets a job, algorithms wield an ever-growing influence over our lives — and policy-makers worldwide want to rein them in. While…
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Australia plans to make social media companies obtain parental consent for users under the age of 16 and threaten fines of up to A$10 million ($7.5 million) for internet platforms…
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Amidst the worldwide panic when Facebook and its sister applications stopped working, people turned to Twitter to share their thoughts and jokes with each other. The application was flooded with…
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Facebook blamed a “faulty configuration change” for a nearly six-hour outage on Monday that prevented the company’s 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such as…
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Instagram went down in several parts of the world due to unclear issues on Thursday. According to Downdetector, the platform that keeps track of internet outages, the Instagram services went…
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Shafaqna Pakistan: 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. David Marcus, head…
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Shafaqna Pakistan: Facebook said Tuesday it was blocking WhatsApp accounts linked to the Taliban after the radical Islamic group seized control of Afghanistan and sought to use the messaging service…
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Shafaqna Pakistan: Facebook already asks for your thoughts. Now it wants your prayers. The social media giant has rolled out a new prayer request feature, a tool embraced by some…
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Shafaqna Pakistan: Apple’s newly announced plans to check online device photos for postings of child abuse imagery are the wrong approach to take and will not be co-adopted by WhatsApp,…