Social media giant, Facebook has announced that it would start removing “severe sexualizing content” targeting public figures. Antigone Davis, global head of safety at Facebook, who made this known in a blog post on Wednesday, said the new development was part of a new update to its bullying and harassment policies. According to Davis, “The…
Stock slide knocks his net worth down to $120.9 billion Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth has fallen by nearly $7 billion in a few hours, knocking him down a notch on the list of the world’s richest people, after a whistleblower came forward and outages took Facebook Inc.’s flagship products offline. A selloff sent the social-media…
Amid global outage of Facebook along with its associated platforms, the data of its over 1.5 Billion users are now being sold in the dark web. A report said the data are being sold on a Hacker Forum. Sputnik News reported that in late September, an announcement was posted on a hacking forum that claimed…
President Muhammadu Buhari has been told to lift the Twitter ban without any condition. A civil society group, Social Economic and Rights Accountability Project (SERAP) said this while rejecting Buhari’s statement that the Twitter ban will be lifted if conditions are met. SERAP, in a post on its Twitter handle called for the unconditional lifting…
Video-sharing-focused social networking service, TikTok, which was launched in 2017 has hit a milestone as it marked one billion monthly active users. The video-sharing App achieved this new feat despite some political roadblocks in some countries including the US and India.“At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. Today, we’re celebrating that…
The legendary Nollywood actress Eucharia Anubobi, took to her Instagram page to complain about people sticking out their tongues in public. Unfortunately, the message of her video was overshadowed by her pose, outfit, choice of words and countenance. Frankly, the video simply ignites laughter. Watch her video below and get cracked up: In an unexpected…
WhatsApp will stop working in 43 smartphones by November, it has been revealed. As a result, the Facebook-owned platform has introduced a new feature to allow iPhone users to migrate chats to Android phones. Users of 43 different models of smartphones will soon be unable to use the popular instant messaging app WhatsApp. On November 1,…
The trending ‘Milk Crate Challenge’- has just been banned by the social video platform, Tik Tok. The very dangerous challenge saw users stack milk or drink crates into the highest pyramid they could, before trying to climb up one side of them and down the other, without any of the crates giving way beneath them….
Video Social platform, TikTok has reacted to the crate challenge, which is the current trend online, causing more harm than good. The platform spoke against “dangerous acts” and noted that it will remove content that glorifies such acts, Fast Company reported. TikTok also warned users to desist from acts that will endanger them. A statement…
The minister says thet negotiations with Twitter are “going quite well”. Nigerian Minister for Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed says that negotiations with Twitter to lift the ban in Nigeria are still ongoing with conclusion to be reached soon. According to him, the company has met 70% of the government’s terms and conditions in an…
Twitter has reacted to the decision by the Federal Government to lift the ban on the use of its platform in Nigeria. “We recently met with the Nigerian government to discuss why Twitter has been blocked and ways to resolve the matter,” a spokesperson for the microblogging site was quoted as saying by Reuters. “Our…
Nigerian youths have called out President Muhammadu Buhari over his recent moves to remove the Twitter ban Reacting on Twitter, Nigerians said Buhari’s bid to unban Twitter now is because he wants to use the platform to campaign for his party in the 2023 election. Recall that Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture had…
The Federal Government of Nigeria on Wednesday revealed that effots to lift the ban are taking place. Federal Government of Nigeria has stated that the Twitter ban in Nigeria will soon be lifted. Minister for Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed revealed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of a meeting which…
WhatsApp has announced the launch of a trial aimed at freeing its users from smartphones. In a blog post on Wednesday, Facebook engineers said the new feature would allow for the hugely popular service to be used on multiple “non-phone” devices without needing to connect to the smartphone app. “With this new capability, you can…
Nigerians who are desperately in need of money no longer need to beg online anymore. This is because Mavin Record boss, Don Jazzy has created a platform to help people in need of financial help. The producer took to his Instagram to share the good news as he said that there will be no need for…
In the space of seven months, Instagram has deleted the account of the musician turned blogger, four times. The Instagram account of controversial blogger and content creator, Tunde Ednut has been deleted for the fourth time. He has attributed his struggles with the media sharing app as the work of his enemies. In the space…
A yet-to-be-identified Instagram user has threatened to kill the Nollywood actress, Eniola Badmus. According to the actress, the person keeps sending her DMs and talks her down on social media.The person even knows her movement and even said if she likes she might not come to AMEN Estate again, but she would be tracked down….
Some youths in the North have reported Irokotv app on Playstore owned by Jason Njoku following the removal of Adamu Garba’s Crowwe app. This came few days after Adamu Garba’s Crowwe App was removed by Google following copyright infringement by the social media company. Recall that the CEO of Crowwe App, Adamu Garba supported the…
C. Ronaldo has continued to break records on and off the field. This time, the Portuguese and Juventus striker has become the first person in the world to reach 300 million followers on the social media platform, Instagram. Notably, he was also the first person to breach the 200 million mark on Instagram. This comes…
A Philippines web designer has gone viral after he disclosed the name of his newborn son as HTML In a Facebook post, the newborn was introduced as Hypertext Mark-up Language Rayo Pascual – or HTML for short. The child’s father Mac Pascual, a web developer, reportedly chose the unusual name as a tribute to his…
