Social media giants, Facebook has announced that it will shut down it’s facial recognition and face print system for over one billion users soon. The technology automatically identifies users in pictures and videos but Facebook has decided to remove it, citing increased concerns about its use. Facial recognition is popular among businesses and hospitals for security purposes, but critics have …

Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive officer of popular social media platform, Facebook, has announced that the company is set to change it’s name from Facebook to “Meta” in it’s latest rebranding exercise. Going forward, the company commonly referred to as Facebook.inc will be known as “Meta,” the company said on Thursday, in a rebrand that focuses on building the “metaverse,” …

Social networking platform, Facebook has admitted that errors by it’s Engineers was the cause of the seven-hour outage on Monday evening and not hackers. Several reports claim that the outage cost the company an estimated $100 million loss in revenue. According to Facebook Vice President of Infrastructure, Santosh Janardhan, the global outage that hit the company’s products – Facebook, WhatsApp, …

Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg has lost of $7 billion of his personal wealth as his social media applications, Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp shutdown. This has knocked him down the list of the world’s richest people, after a whistleblower came forward and outages took Facebook Inc.’s flagship products offline. The stock slide on Monday sent Zuckerberg’s worth down to $120.9 billion, …

Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook has gone offline for users worldwide, the social media giant said on Monday, as it is working on restoring its services. All three social media platforms, owned and operated by Facebook Inc., based in Menlo Park, California, went off line at about noon Eastern Time. “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps …

Nigerian football team captain, Ahmed Musa has revealed that internet fraudsters have hacked his Facebook account and have swindled money from unsuspecting victims. The former Leicester City winger, whose social media account was hacked few weeks ago, disclosed this on his verified Instagram field. “Please and please; all these accounts are fake. Am not giving out any money on Facebook. …

Following accusation of possible manipulation of public debate ahead of elections, a number of Ugandan government officials and ruling party members have had their Facebook accounts shut down. The East African nation will cast their votes on Thursday, January 14, to elect a new president and parliament amid a tense and bloody electoral campaign, with incumbent President Yoweri Museveni, 76, …

A Nigerian woman identified as Onyinye Onome took revealed via her Facebook page that her husband of one year was sexually molesting their nine-month-old son. In a series of Facebook posts and live videos, Onome revealed that her life is in danger for exposing her husband, named Chukwutem Victor Inalu, as he allegedly has the backing of powerful men. Onome …

In what appears to be a clean up of posts exposing the on-going police brutality crisis in Nigeria, the International supermodel, activist, and philanthropist, ​Naomi Campbell, has called out Facebook to stop censoring posts wrongly. According to Naomi’s Instagram page, Facebook had flagged her post which showed the Nigerian flag and mentioned President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the incessant killing …

Facebook’s CEO has joined Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, and Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates, as the only people with centibillionaire status. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune has topped $100bn for the first time, placing him among members of the world’s centibillionaires’ club. This comes after Facebook’s shares surged by 6% on the news that the company plans …