Nigeria has hit Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, with a staggering $220 million fine for violating local data privacy laws. After a thorough investigation revealed that Meta’s policies deny Nigerian users the right to control their personal data, the government demanded immediate changes and a hefty
The US Supreme Court will decide Facebook’s fate in a massive data-harvesting scandal following a class-action lawsuit alleging that Meta gave up to 87 million customers’ personal information to other parties, including Cambridge Analytica, on June 10. You can read the original article here. On June 10, the Supreme Court
According to data from companies like Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft, the largest cloud players, Microsoft and Amazon, have hundreds of data centers to meet growing commercial needs. The Big Tech firms are frequently pitted against one another in a variety of ways, including revenue, market capitalization, and the newest addition—generative
Former CIA Agent Aaron Berman, who served at the CIA between March 2002 and July 2019, takes over election policing at Facebook. Aaron Berman, a 17-year veteran of the CIA who already held a senior position in Facebook’s “misinformation” team during the 2020 election, has been promoted to “Head of
Meta’s Chief Product Officer, Chris Cox, revealed the launch of a Twitter clone with the code name “Project 92.” The public name for this project could be “Threads.” One of Meta’s top executives showed employees a preview of the company’s upcoming Twitter competitor during a companywide meeting today that was
Zuckerberg’s Instagram-facilitated massive paedophile network as Instagram’s own algorithms were promoting paedophile content to other paedophiles. A comprehensive investigation by the Wall Street Journal and the Stanford Internet Observatory reveals that Meta-owned Instagram has been home to an organized and massive network of pedophiles. But what separates this case from most is that Instagram’s
Meta’s global team derailed WhatsApp India’s payment ambitions, as everything had to go through the global headquarters. This led to the departure of senior executives Abhijit Bose, Manesh Mahatme, and Vinay Choletti from the organization last year. When WhatsApp was given the approval to run Unified Payments Interface (UPI) in
If a bill, sponsored by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland, passes, Meta threatens to pull news content in California unless it pays publishers. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, threatened to remove news from its social media sites in California if the state passes a bill requiring big tech
According to investigative journalist Lee Fang, Google, Meta, and Amazon have been hiring low-paid foreign workers following layoffs in the United States. Some of the biggest companies in tech including Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Salesforce have hired foreign workers just weeks after reducing headcount by thousands of employees, according to