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Facebook, Instagram and Messenger are back up and running after a social media blackout. The sites and apps have been down for hours and Facebook’s CTO explained it was because of ‘networking issues’. But the sites have slowly been coming back online for people all around the world. It’s estimated the outages was costing Facebook […]

WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook have all gone down in a major outage. The three apps – which are all owned by Facebook, and run on shared infrastructure – all completely stopped working shortly before 5pm. Other products that are part of the same family of apps, such as Facebook Workplace, also stopped working. Visitors to the […]

As reaction to President Trump’s positive coronavirus test floods social media, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok have a message to users: Wishing for the president to die is not allowed. All three tech companies confirmed that such posts will be removed for violating each platform’s content policies. As moderators scramble to pull down posts that express […]

Facebook has said it is running a fact-checking pilot in Nigeria to help stop the spread of fake news about coronavirus Report Focus News has learnt . The social media giant says it will use its messaging app – WhatsApp – to help researchers gather misinformation and respond with accurate information. It will also provide […]

More than 267 million Facebook user phone numbers, names and user IDs were exposed in a database that anyone could access online, adding to a long list of privacy and security mishaps that continue to plague the world’s largest social network. Researchers aren’t sure how the database was created. It could have been illegally compiled […]

In a hearing with plenty of criticism aimed at Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, Kentucky Republican Andy Barr lodged a defense of the company’s attempt at innovation in financial services. He said: Criticism is cheap. Anybody can criticize. As you can see here today, politicians in Washington are pretty good at lodging criticism. But creating something […]

PayPal has become the first company to pull out of an alliance that is trying to launch Facebook’s digital currency Libra. PayPal announced in a statement on Friday afternoon but did not specify what had prompted the decision. Libra and its digital wallet Calibra were revealed by Facebook in June. But the cryptocurrency has been […]

Facebook on Tuesday teamed up with the London police as part of an increased effort to thwart live-streams of terror attacks such as the New Zealand mosque massacre. A self-professed white supremacist used a head-mounted camera in March to broadcast live footage on Facebook of him attacking two mosques in the city of Christchurch. The […]

Facebook has become the latest tech giant to face scrutiny over its handling of users’ data, following a report that said the social media giant been paying hundreds of contractors to listen to and transcribe users’ private audio chats, some of which are X-rated. The company confirmed that it had been transcribing users’ audio and […]

US regulators approved a roughly 4 billion settlement with Facebook Inc this week over its investigation into the social media company’s handling of user data, a source familiar with the situation said on Friday. The FTC has been investigating allegations that Facebook inappropriately shared information belonging to 87 million users with the now-defunct British political consulting […]