Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has threatened to restrict access to the two social platforms in Nigeria following fines by local regulatory authorities. Last year, three regulatory bodies in Nigeria fined the US-based social media firm over $290 million for breaching various laws and regulations. Metaās recent effort to contest the rulings…
Nollywood actress Regina Daniels returned to Instagram on Friday, making a bold move by removing her husband, Ned Nwokoās name from her bio and deleting all pictures featuring him from her page. This change comes just days after the actress deactivated her account last Monday amid rumours that Nwoko was responsible for actress Chika Ikeās…
Social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are down amid a widespread Meta outage. Website Downdetector, which monitors where there are issues with websites and apps, showed large spikes for Facebook and other Meta apps with people saying they had been affected by the outage. According to Downdetector, Facebook outages were first reported…
Meta, the parent company of WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram, says it has deleted another 1,600 groups linked to āYahoo Boyā from its platform. The development comes three months after the company removed 63,000 accounts in Nigeria linked to sextortion scams. In a statement on Thursday, Meta also announced that Instagram is taking measures to further…
Turkey on Friday blocked access to the Instagram social media network, the national communications authority said without explanation, following censorship accusations against the US company by a high-ranking Turkish official. The BTK communications authority said in a post on its website that āinstagram.com has been blocked by a decision on the date of 02/08/2024ā, without…