Tag: Facebook
Kenya Decides 2022: Meta’s Efforts to Promote Election Integrity on Its Platforms
Kenya is heading towards its elections set for August 9th this year where its citizens will vote in county-level, legislative and presidential elections.
A civic...
Facebook Paid Republican Firm to Run TikTok Smear Campaign
TikTok has been Facebook's number one rival in the social media space. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's chief executive has even said that TikTok is a...
Facebook to Verify Political Ads Ahead of August Elections
Kenya is heading towards its elections set for August this year where its citizens will vote in county-level, legislative and presidential elections.
To maintain...
Tech Companies That Have Suspended Services in Russia
Russia has now passed North Korea and Iran to become the most sanctioned nation in the world following President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
The...
Social Media Platforms Can’t Keep Up With Misinformation on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Misinformation is a huge problem for social media platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Telegram and Twitter. It has gotten worse with Russia's invasion of...
How Tech Companies Are Responding to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
UPDATE: Meta has demoted links to Russian media on Facebook and Instagram. Content shared by Russian state media will stop being recommended on users...
Meta Considering Shutting Down Facebook and Instagram in Europe
The European Union has been looking into Privacy Shield and other agreements that allow for transatlantic data transfers, particularly on how data from European...
Facebook Isn’t Listening On Your Phone. It Doesn’t Have To
Early this week, a video went viral(20 million views) on TikTok about how Facebook is listening on your phone. The woman in the video...
Gainwithxtiandela The Most Used Hashtag in Kenya in 2021
Facebook’s parent company rebranded to Meta, which means that the likes of Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Facebook itself are under the Meta umbrella.
The development...
Tech Habits to Adopt in 2022
2021 is finally ending and 2022 will be a new year that promises to offer a chance to begin afresh on a clean...
Meta is the New Company That Owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus
In the last couple of days, there were rumours that Facebook was planning to change its name.
The day has finally come and passed, and...
[UPDATED: Services Are Slowly Coming Back Online] Facebook Apps Are Down
By now we already know that Facebook apps are down. This is because the social media giant is a leading voice in social media...
Facebook Pauses Work on Instagram For Kids Ahead of This Week’s Senate Hearing
Facebook has been working on an Instagram version for kids between 10 to 12 years, but those plans are on pause, and the company...
Facebook’s Internal Research Reveals Instagram Is Harmful to Teenage Girls
Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion in early 2012. Instagram was a popular platform for teens then who had stopped using Facebook's main app.
Facebook...
Facebook Intros New Safety Measures to Protect The Privacy of its Users in Afghanistan
Afghanistan is now under the Taliban. Social networks have banned the group from sharing its messages on their platforms including YouTube and Facebook.
Civilians, activists...
Facebook Brings Reels To The News Feed
TikTok is giving Facebook a lot of headaches in the short video format. The app recently outranked Facebook and its family of apps to...
Telcos, Facebook Supplement Undersea Cables with 4 New Landing Site
The 2Africa consortium, comprised of China Mobile International, Facebook, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, STC, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone and WIOCC, announced the addition of four new...
Facebook Is Rebuilding Its Ad Tools With a Focus on Privacy
Consumer privacy has become a hot topic for tech giants this year. Apple led the way at their WWDC early this year making privacy-focussed...
TikTok Dethrones Facebook as the World’s Most Downloaded App
TikTok, a popular app among Gen Z and Millennials is now the most downloaded app in the world. The app even outranked Facebook and...
Facebook’s App Cloning Division Lives Another Day, Launches Newsletter Service Bulletin
Facebook has launched its very own subscription-based newsletter, Bulletin, to tap into the growing popularity of newsletter services and products. Mark Zuckerberg, who dropped...
WhatsApp Bows Out From Limiting Features For New Privacy Policy Opposers
As privacy concerns continue to rock its camp, Facebook-owned WhatsApp is reversing the plan to limit functionalities to users who had not accepted the...
Instagram, Facebook Roll Out Options for Users to Hide Public Like Counts on Posts
Instagram and Facebook will start to roll out one highly requested feature on their platforms - options to manage the likes count feature on...
Podcast Triple Threat: Apple, Spotify and Now Facebook
The podcast scene is getting heated up. Spotify, Apple and Facebook are getting increasingly involved in the whole business including hosting, subscriptions, ads and...
I’m Not Deleting My Facebook and Instagram Accounts. Here’s What I’m Doing Instead
Facebook and Instagram now feature a 'Time Well Spent' feature that let users know how much time they've spent on the apps.
I decided...
Facebook Ventures Into Podcasts, Begins Working On Its Own In-app Player
Facebook is going on all in on audio right as Clubhouse's reign is coming down. Just last week, the tech giant announced new products...
Facebook Begins Rolling Out Spotify Mini-player for Podcast and Music Streaming
Last week, Facebook announced new products and features with a focus on audio. One of the products which the giant social network partnered up...
Facebook Employees Are Tired Of Cloning Apps and Features
Facebook has done a lot of cloning from rival apps. The company hasn't shied from introducing new copied features on its apps and platforms.
Being...
Facebook Increases Efforts on Live Audio, Announces New Products and Features
The launch of the invite-only app Clubhouse early last year revolutionized social network platforms that had so far stagnated in terms of new features...
Biggest Social Media Data Leaks This Year So Far
As data becomes the goldmine of all time, April of 2021 has shown nothing but a continuous leakage of this resource.
Several tech companies...
Are You Kind? Facebook Is Giving You Love In 4 Minutes.
If you have been unlucky in finding a significant other during this shift in normal human interactions due to the Covid19 pandemic, Facebook is...
You Can Ask For Harmful Content To Be Removed From Facebook and Instagram
The Oversight Board, which advocates or respect for free expression, through independent judgement, has announced that it will start accepting cases from Facebook and...
Kenyans Parade Themselves on IMF Facebook Page Faulting Its Loans to Govt
Trust Kenyans to leverage the power of social media to give their two cents. This is something we have come accustomed to, and thanks...
Clubhouse Reign Is Declining as Rival Social Apps Catch Up
In April of last year, the invitation-only audio chat app Clubhouse launched.
COVID-19 pandemic had hit the world and most people were stuck at...
Social Media Is Impeding Our Efforts Against COVID-19
Social Media is probably the most outstanding evidence of how the internet has made the world one common playroom. However, the general lack of...
Facebook Will Show Prompt to iOS Users to Ask For Tracking Permission
Facebook will start showing a prompt to iOS users soon which is designed to convince them to allow ad tracking.
This is in preparation of...
