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Meta Platforms-owned Facebook and Instagram were down for thousands of users on Friday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com. More than 12,000 users reported having trouble accessing Facebook, while over 6,600 users were having trouble with Instagram. Meta’s messaging service, WhatsApp, also had over 1,300 outage reports on Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources …

Facebook and Instagram began a week-long rollout of their first paid verification service on Friday, testing users’ willingness to pay for social media features that until now have been free. Facing a drop in advertising revenues, parent company Meta is piloting a subscription in Australia and New Zealand before it appears in larger markets. The service will cost US$11.99 on …

Meta Platforms (FB.O) is globally demoting content from Russian state-controlled media outlets’ Facebook pages and Instagram accounts, as well as posts containing links to those outlets on Facebook, the company’s head of global affairs said on Tuesday. Tech and social media companies have faced pressure to respond to last Thursday’s invasion of Ukraine by Russia, which has led to economic sanctions against …

Facebook blamed a “faulty configuration change” for a nearly six-hour outage on Monday that prevented the company’s 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger. The company, in a blog post published late on Monday, did not specify who executed the configuration change and whether it was planned but said that its systems were back …

Facebook on Tuesday announced a ban on all accounts linked to the QAnon conspiracy group, as the social network tries to clamp down on misinformation ahead of the heated US presidential election. The move against QAnon at Facebook and its image-sharing platform Instagram comes as the online giant tries to avoid being used to deceive or confuse voters, as was …

Social media platforms Facebook and Instagram on Thursday night experienced an outage across the world. The outage hit thousands in the United States, Europe, Canada and other parts of the world. The outage appears to have started Thursday afternoon and is affecting news feed, logins and some users have a ‘total blackout.’ DownDetector, a site that monitors outages on social …

WASHINGTON: The fortunes of US billionaires rose 15 per cent in the two months since the coronavirus pandemic hit, a study found, with Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg seeing massive gains. The more than 600 billionaires in the United States became even richer as tech stocks rose during virus lockdowns, an analysis of data by two …

WASHINGTON: Facebook and Twitter both added tags denoting false or manipulated content to a video reposted by President Donald Trump of his Democrat rival Joe Biden. The edited video, which appeared to show Biden endorsing the president, was marked “partly false” by Facebook and “manipulated media” on Twitter. The moves appear to break new ground for the social media platforms …

ISLAMABAD: Facebook and Telenor on Tuesday launched a joint programme to train 1,000 Pakistani girls and women in digital skills to help them achieve financial empowerment. Pakistani women will celebrate the World Women Day on March 8 (Sunday). Facebook would train the women and girls through its programme called “#SheMeansBusiness” while Telenor launched its programme ACTIVATE on Tuesday by organising …

Britain’s competition watchdog said Wednesday that Facebook and eBay pledged to crack down on the trade in fake reviews at its request, removing hundreds of accounts, pages and groups involved in the illicit business. The Competition and Markets Authority said the two US tech companies agreed to step up efforts to detect, investigate and respond to fake and misleading reviews …