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The Government of Equatorial Guinea has imposed restrictions on its citizens regarding the downloading and sharing multimedia files via mobile data on WhatsApp. To ensure compliance, they ordered telecommunications providers take steps to limit access to inappropriate content. The situation gained attention due to a scandal involving Baltasar Engonga, the Director General of the National […]
Keep ReadingMeta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, announced on Wednesday that it has removed 63,000 accounts connected to Nigerian cybercriminals involved in financial sextortion scams targeting users in the United States. In its Q1 2024 Adversarial Threat Report, Meta detailed that the takedown included a smaller coordinated network of about 2,500 […]
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Meta, owners of WhatsApp has enabled users access to operate multiple accounts on a single device. The new feature was announced by the Meta-owned platform in a blog post today, Thursday, October 19. WhatsApp said the feature will allow users to “switch between accounts,” thereby eliminating “worry about messaging from the wrong place”. It, however, […]
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The federal government of Nigeria is suing Facebook and Meta to the tune of N30 billion for the continued violations and infractions of the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria Act No. 23 of 2022. The suit has been made through the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria while the FG government’s demands are in fines and […]
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WhatsApp is back after a near 2-hour downtime on Tuesday. The messaging app owned by Meta went off air in Nigeria and several other countries for hours as users making it impossible for users to send or receive messages on the app. WhatsApp outage was experienced at about 8:00am on Tuesday morning, sending users enquiring […]
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Popular American instant messaging social media platform, WhatsApp has completed plans to roll out 3 new privacy protection features for its users. The new features as announced by Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday will provide even more layers of protection for its users. The media tech magnate stated via his official Facebook page that the new feature aimsto […]
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Social media platform, WhatsApp will cease to function on many phone brands starting today, November 1 as the app will be blocked on their devices. Hetty’s Media had reported earlier that the media messaging app will cease on the the phone brands. This because the owners of the platform will no longer provide support for […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has been sued over his administration’s plans to monitor the WhatsApp messages of Nigerians with N4.8 billion. In the breakdown of the 2021 budget, the Federal Government had budgeted the said funds for the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) to spy on WhatsApp messages and Thuraya calls of Nigerians. The Socio-Economic Rights and […]
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Foremost American social media company, Facebook has unveiled a new ‘life-saving’ feature on its WhatsApp messaging platform. The announcement was made by Facebook on Wednesday, when it said that the new feature will allow WhatsApp to be used on non-phone devices. The feature will relieve users of the popular messaging platform from concerns around their […]
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