Tag: Facebook
Facebook says hackers in Pakistan targeted Afghan users amid government collapse
Hackers from Pakistan used Facebook to target people in Afghanistan with connections to the previous government during the Taliban’s takeover of the country, the...
Police nab wanted alleged Facebook serial rapist
A 34-year-old male suspect from Limpopo who was wanted for multiple charges of rape and robberies between July 2020 and August has finally been...
Eswatini tells mobile operators to suspend Facebook access after protests
Mobile operators in the southern African kingdom of Eswatini have been told to suspend access to Facebook and its messenger app, the local unit...
US court orders Facebook to release records of anti-Rohingya content for...
A US federal judge has ordered Facebook to release records of accounts connected to anti-Rohingya violence in Myanmar that the social media giant had...
Taliban’s Afghanistan takeover presents fresh challenge for social media companies
The Taliban's rapid takeover of Afghanistan poses a new challenge for big US tech companies on handling content created by a group considered to...
How Vietnam’s ‘influencer’ army wages information warfare on Facebook
In Vietnam, where the state is fighting a fierce online battle against political dissent, social media "influencers" are more likely to be soldiers than...
Facebook asks: Are your friends becoming extremists?
Facebook is starting to warn some users they might have seen "extremist content" on the social media site, the company said on Thursday.
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Facebook says it removed fake Ethiopia account network ahead of election
Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it had removed a network of fake accounts in Ethiopia targeting domestic users ahead of next week’s elections, which...
US a top target for influence ops – Facebook
The US tops a list of countries most frequently targeted by deceptive foreign influence operations using Facebook between 2017 and 2020, the social media...
Facebook says Palestinian spies behind hacking campaign
Facebook says it has disrupted a long-running cyberespionage campaign run by Palestinian intelligence which features spies posing as journalists and the deployment of a...
Leaker says they are offering private details of 500 million Facebook...
A leaker says they are offering information on more than 500 million Facebook Inc users - including phone numbers and other data - virtually...
Facebook faces a reckoning in Myanmar after blocked by military
The Myanmar military’s shutdown of Facebook access following the ouster of the democratically elected Aung San Suu Kyi caps years of tension between the...
Facebook says it removed record number of disinformation campaigns in December
Facebook Inc identified and suspended 17 disinformation networks on its platforms in December, representing its largest monthly takedown, the US tech giant said on...
Facebook takes down Ugandan pro-Museveni accounts ahead of election
Facebook has taken down a network in Uganda linked to the country’s ministry of information for using fake and duplicate accounts to post ahead...
Facebook removes ‘inauthentic’ networks spanning 8 nations
Facebook on Friday said it has dismantled seven separate networks of fake accounts and pages on its platform that were active in Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt,...
Facebook, Twitter dismantle global array of disinformation networks
Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc said on Thursday they had taken down more than a dozen disinformation networks used by political and state-backed groups...
Facebook reports spike in takedowns of hate speech, terrorism
Facebook on Tuesday reported a sharp increase in the number of posts it removed for promoting violence and hate speech across its apps, which...
Somalia harassing journalists online – claim
Amnesty International accuses Somalia’s government of creating teams of online monitors who troll journalists and report them to Facebook standards enforcers to disable their...
Millions of child abuse posts removed from Facebook
Facebook removed 3,2 billion fake accounts between April and September including millions of posts depicting child abuse and suicide, according to its latest content...
ISS: Taking social media at (Face)book value in Africa
Last week Facebook revealed that it had disabled hundreds of fake accounts that had sought to meddle with the electoral processes of eight African...
Russian operatives sacrifice followers to stay under cover on Facebook
Efforts by Russian influence campaigns to stay undetected on social media ahead of next year’s US elections are undermining ability to gain followers and...
New Facebook steps to stop misinformation
Facebook announced new steps to combat misinformation and voter suppression ahead of the November 2020 US presidential election, on the same day it disclosed...
Facebook accounts in four countries removed
Facebook removed hundreds of pages, groups and accounts on its platforms for “co-ordinated inauthentic behaviour” linked to operations in Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates,...
Facebook dismantles covert influence campaign
People connected to the Saudi Arabia government ran a network of fake accounts and pages on Facebook to promote state propaganda and attack regional...
Facebook’s Cameroon problem: stop online hate stoking conflict
A video link posted on Facebook in June showed a man cooking human body parts in a pot over a wood fire....
Lebanese tourist jailed for Facebook post released, leaves Egypt
A Lebanese tourist jailed after Egyptian authorities said she insulted the country in a Facebook video post left Egypt after being released,...
Egypt set to release Lebanese tourist jailed over Facebook post
A Lebanese tourist sentenced to eight years in prison for posting a video on Facebook the authorities claimed insulted the country is...
SANDF distances itself from fake Facebook account
The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has said it is gravely concerned by the discovery of a fake Facebook page that...
Facebook blocked in Libya as fighting continues
Facebook is blocked in Tripoli and other Libyan cities, residents said as fighting between rival groups raged.
Facebook is the main platform...
Anti-Egypt Facebook post earns jail sentence
A Lebanese tourist arrested for posting a video on Facebook complaining of sexual harassment and conditions in Egypt was sentenced to eight...
Ethiopian politician jailed for Facebook post
An Ethiopian court sentenced an opposition politician to six and a half years in prison on Thursday over a series of anti-government...
Facebook’s solar-powered internet drone takes flight
Facebook said on Thursday it had completed a successful test flight of a solar-powered drone that it hopes will help it extend...
Israeli minister says Facebook a ‘monster’, hindering security
Israel's Minister of Internal Security on Saturday accused Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, of not doing enough to prevent incitement against...
Egypt arrests Facebook page administrators ahead of revolt anniversary
Egyptian security forces have arrested the administrators of 47 Facebook pages that the interior ministry says are run by the outlawed Muslim...
Facebook activates ‘Safety Check’ for Nigeria blasts after criticism
Facebook Inc activated its "Safety Check" feature after deadly blasts in Nigeria late on Tuesday following criticism from users that the social...
Heavy investment into aerospace and defence by IT and Internet players
The recent announcement by Google that it will acquire satellite company Skybox Imaging for $500 million demonstrates that IT and Internet players...
Egypt arrests seven pro-Mursi Facebook activists
Egyptian police detained seven men accused of using Facebook for inciting people against the security forces, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday,...
Tough justice alarms campaigners
Tough prison sentences such as four years for trying to organise a riot via Facebook have triggered alarm in Britain that the...
UK mulls social media gag
British prime minister David Cameron has told Parliament that social networks and Research In Motion (RIM) should take more control over the...
Zimbabwe makes first Facebook arrest
Zimbabwean police have made the first Facebook arrest after a Bulawayo man was charged over a post he made on the social...
Social media show limits as Egypt elections loom
Egyptians who turned to Facebook and Twitter to galvanize their revolt against Hosni Mubarak are starting to wonder whether faith in social...
Tripoli activists plot revolt without Facebook
In the brief, heady period at the start of the uprising in the Libyan capital against Muammar Gaddafi, activists relied on Facebook...
Web companies test Internet’s readiness for future
Web companies including Google, Facebook and Akamai are joining forces to test the Internet's readiness for a future in which billions more...
Nigerian rights group loses appeal in Facebook case
A Nigerian civil rights group yesterday lost its appeal against the shut down of its chat forums on Facebook and Twitter that...
Free McAfee internet security for Facebook users
Facebook, the world's No. 1 social networking site, which has been a target of several high-profile cyber attacks in the past year,...
Facebook, Twitter to face more hacker attacks in 2010
A US-based Web security firm says it expects social networking Web sites to face increased hacker attacks in the new year, but...
