Should I stay or should I go — from Meta’s social media platforms? That’s what some Facebook, Instagram and Threads users are wondering after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement this month that the company is relaxing rules on harmful content such as hate speech and abandoning its fact checking program and replacing it with crowdsourced […]
YouTube emerged as the third most popular social media platform in Kenya with a market share of 29.5pc while TikTok grew to 23pc from 17.8pc to 23pc.
The investigation mirrors allegations in lawsuits against Meta in the United States: To date, 41 states and Washington, DC have sued the company, alleging Meta knowingly made both Instagram’s and Facebook’s designs and algorithms addictive and did not do enough to safeguard children on the platforms.
Changes to its system for suggesting content, particularly on Reels – its short-form video service -will prioritise original content and “give all creators an equal chance of breaking through”.
Kenyan music producer and fashion designer Tedd Josiah is urging Africans to build their own social media platforms, citing unnecessary censorship on popular platforms like Twitter. Josiah believes that having an African-owned social media platform would give Africans more control over the content they produce and consume, while also providing a platform for the continent’s […]
Oct 4 (Reuters) – Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp at least partially reconnected to the global internet late on Monday afternoon Eastern time, nearly six hours into an outage that paralyzed the social media platform. Facebook and its WhatsApp and Instagram apps went dark at around noon Eastern time (1600 GMT), in what website monitoring group […]
Facebook is at it again and this time around the App’s giant is working on an upgrade that will be removing the like counts and, probably like button from all user accounts and pages. Thumbs up or as it is popularly known LIKE has been a universally recognized sign of approval for Facebook posts which […]
Instagram influencers have woken up to another purge that has seen their accounts shut down and deactivated. According to Facebook spokesperson, the accounts were disabled following multiple violations of platform policies among them attempted abuse of internal processes. One affected Istagram influencer Declan Mortimer 17, claimed that his account generated up to 20million a year […]
The society has been filled with ‘get rich quick’ mentality. Many of young generation are doing whatever they are capable of doing to ‘prosper’. Our desk has received information of couple of Instagram accounts that are luring girls into prostitution. Nairobi girls are being lured into sex for cash business in what is termed as […]
