Google and Facebook have announced that their employees will be able to continue working from home for the rest of the year.Google chief executive Sundar Pichai, disclosed this at a company-wide meeting on Thursday that employees who need to return to the office will start being able to do so from July with enhanced safety…
Social Media Under Fire Over New Zealand Attack
The role of social media in the deadly attack carried out in two mosques in New Zealand has come under focus as Prime Minster Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand disclosed on Tuesday that her government would investigate the role social media played in the deadly attack. The Prime Minister’s decision follows a video of Friday’s attack…
All Hail Our Virtual President
The citizenship of Facebook is over one billion, those who inhabit tweeter are in competition with Facebook. The citizens of this world often pride themselves as being the most literate, flaunting the best ideas. They connect across the world, mostly with little or no physical contact. With them is the island of wisdom and virtue.…
Facebook Hits Back in Internet.org India Row
Facebook boss, Mark Zuckerberg, has defended the aims of his Internet.org initiative on Thursday, after several Indian firms decided to pull out of the project. Zuckerberg argued that Internet.org’s basic free services were not incompatible with net neutrality and the principle that all web services should be equally accessible. He wrote in a blog that,…
Facebook Sued for EU Privacy Laws Violation
Facebook is being sued by some 25,000 users for alleged violations of European privacy laws in a class action suit in a Vienna court. The claim, led by Max Schrems, Austrian data protection campaigner focuses on the way Facebook collects and forwards data. It has been brought against Facebook’s European headquarters in Dublin, which registers…
Facebook Starts Restriction on Violent Images
Facebook has started to place warnings over violent videos posted on the social media platform stating their contents might “shock, offend and upset” if viewed. Facebook says potentially distressing video clips would henceforth be covered by a warning that stops them from auto-playing unless they are clicked. The site is also preventing graphic videos and…
NNPC Disowns Fake Facebook Account for Its GMD
The Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, on Wednesday distanced Joseph Dawha, its Group Managing Director, from the running and ownership of a Facebook account opened in his name by some persons it described as “nondescript scam artistes.” The NNPC in a statement said that the bogus Facebook account which bears a concocted…
Facebook Sues DLA Piper and others for fraud
Facebook incorporated and Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of the social network, has filed a lawsuit against DLA Piper and other law firms for allegedly prosecuting a fraudulent lawsuit. The law firms had represented Paul Ceglia, a man who claimed he owned half of the social network and was entitled to billions of dollars from…
