Facebook on Thursday said it disabled over three billion fake accounts between September and March as part of an effort to enforce content standards. The social networking platform said it disabled 1.2 billion fake accounts in the fourth quarter of 2018 and 2.19 billion in the first quarter of this year. The company also said […]
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Israeli firm, Archimedes Group, has been banned by Facebook. The company received the ban for using fake accounts and pages to post political news about Nigeria. Archimedes Group is a political consulting and lobbying firm that boasts of its ability of wining elections worldwide. In a post, Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, explained that […]
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The 2018 TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa, a competition amongst sub-Saharan startups, will be hosted by Facebook. Facebook said the event will hold for five days and comprise of trainings for women, high school students, developers and aspiring entrepreneurs. On December 11, TechCrunch Startup Battlefield supported by Facebook will bring together the strongest start-ups from across […]
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Facebook says it has partnered Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) and Junior Achievement Nigeria to launch an Online Safety Programme for students in Nigerian secondary schools across the country. Facebook’s Policy Programmes Manager, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sherry Dzinoreva said in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos, that the schools were in Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Ibadan and Kaduna. In […]
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Google’s search engine of promoting negative news articles and hiding “fair media” coverage of him, vowing to address the situation without providing evidence or giving details of action he might take. Trump’s attack against the Alphabet Inc unit follows a string of grievances against technology companies, including social […]
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If you worry that you, or your children, spend too much time on social media, worry no more as Facebook and Instagram on Wednesday said they want to help you take control. In a statement, the social media giants — which are both owned by Facebook — announced: “new tools to help people manage their time” spent on […]
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Pan-African Financial Institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) who recently clinched the Euromoney awards as the Best Digital Bank in Africa, is once again asserting itself as a pace setter, moving in leaps and bounds in unchartered territory. UBA’s chat banker, Leo has launched in pilot mode on WhatsApp and will be fully available to […]
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Facebook is in deep financial difficulty after its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mark Zuckerberg lost more than $16 billion in less than 24 hours. The company reported weaker-than-expected second-quarter results and issued guidance that its financial future is not as rosy as some investors thought it might be. Set against this backdrop, one activist investor […]
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Facebook co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg has overtaken Warren Buffett as the world’s third richest person, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Zuckerberg, who is behind Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos and Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, surpassed Buffett on Friday when Facebook shares climbed 2.4 percent. According to the Bloomberg Index, it is the first time the three […]
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Facebook said on Tuesday it was easing a ban on ads for cryptocurrencies while keeping a prohibition on initial coin offerings to raise assets. The move comes five months after the leading social network said it was banning all ads related to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin as a way to curb scams. To place ads on […]
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