Facebook is bringing back one of its oldest features, the famous Poke button, in a fresh attempt to win younger users. The social media giant confirmed that pokes will now...
Meta, the US tech giant behind Facebook, Instagram and Threads, will stop showing political ads across the EU from 10 October. The decision follows new EU transparency rules for political...
Meta has removed around 10 million fake Facebook profiles in the first half of 2025 for impersonating popular content creators. The move is part of Meta’s effort to clean up...
A staggering 16 billion passwords linked to major online platforms such as Apple, Google, and Facebook have been leaked online. Researchers are calling it the largest data breach in history,...
Thousands of Facebook users are demanding that the company stop processing their personal data for direct marketing purposes. Around 5,000 people have written to Meta, Facebook’s parent company, asking it...
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has announced an ambitious plan to build the world’s longest subsea cable. Named Project Waterworth, the 50,000-kilometre-long cable will connect five...
Major tech companies, including Meta’s Facebook, Elon Musk’s X, and Google’s YouTube, have pledged to intensify efforts to combat online hate speech. This move follows the integration of an updated...
Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, will cut about 5% of its workforce deemed “lowest performers” this year. The announcement comes as CEO Mark Zuckerberg reinforces his commitment to...
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is replacing its independent fact-checking programme with user-driven “community notes.” This shift mirrors a feature introduced by Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter)...
The European Union’s privacy watchdogs have fined Facebook owner Meta €251 million for a 2018 data breach affecting millions of users. The penalties were issued by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission,...