Facebook Marketplace is celebrating its 10th anniversary, highlighting how Nigerians use it to discover products, sell items and connect with buyers and sellers in their communities. From electronics and clothing to furniture and home improvement essentials, Marketplace brings a wide range of products together in one place. More than 835,000 listings are placed on Facebook…
Meta, the social media giant and parent company for WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook, has unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) agent to help small and big businesses operate round the clock. Speaking at the Meta Conversations in London yesterday, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, said the agent will learn and get to a point where it…
As the 60-day timeline given to WhatsApp and Meta Platforms Incorporated to pay a $220 million penalty and $35,000 to the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) by Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal over data discrimination practices in Nigeria continues to count, a group, Techsocietal, has called for caution. In a statement endorsed by…
Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has agreed to pay President Donald Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 federal lawsuit alleging First Amendment violations and other claims following the company suspending him from Facebook and Instagram in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The payout resolves the suit Trump filed against Facebook…
Facebook, Instagram and the widely-used WhatsApp messaging service are gradually returning to normal after an hours-long global outage that disabled the Facebook-owned social media platforms for some six hours. In a post on rival platform Twitter on Monday evening, Facebook confirmed its apps were coming back online and apologised to users for a blackout that…
