NEMA receives 171 stranded Nigerians from Libya
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Friday received another batch of 171 stranded Nigerians from Libya. Alhaji Idris Muhammed, Coordinator, Lagos Territorial Office of NEMA, who was represented by…
Facebook fights fake news; shuts 23 pages
Facebook has given teeth to its resurgent fight against hate speech and fake with the closure of 23 Italian pages, including many supporting the country’s populist government parties. The pages…
French experts say Facebook still not working hard enough to curb violent extremism, hate speech … urge governments to step in
Mark Zuckerberg France welcomed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Paris on Friday with the threat of sweeping new regulations against his social media behemoth. With his company under fire on…
Facebook’s flood of new languages leaves it struggling to monitor content
Facebook Inc’s struggles with hate speech and other types of problematic content are being hampered by the company’s inability to keep up with a flood of new languages as mobile…
Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp Down in Many Parts of The World
Many Users around the world can no longer access WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram, the second time that the popular social media platforms would suffer an outage in one month. In…
Facebook to Establish Content Oversight Board, Seeks Input From Communities in Africa
Ime Archibong, Facebook’s vice president of product partnerships With more than a billion people and tens of thousands of languages and ethnic groups across 54 countries, Africa has a beautiful,…
Hackers force President out of social media
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday suspended his social media accounts citing infiltration by unauthorised individuals. Hackers have been on the prowl in the social media space, breaching accounts of…
Racism, social media are motivators for New Zealand mosques attacks – Reports
Racism and social media have been fingered as chief motivators of the shootings at two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch Friday in which 49 persons were killed…
WhatsApp Reduces Recipients of Forwarded Messages to Curb Spread of False Information
WhatsApp Messenger, popular text messaging service, has reduced messages a user can forward to five recipients, in an effort to reduce the spread of false information. The News Agency…
Facebook bans propaganda political adverts in Nigeria, others
Facebook Inc told Reuters on Tuesday that it would extend some of its political advertising rules and tools for curbing election interference to India, Nigeria, Ukraine and the European Union…