Italian watchdog penalises Meta for data practices
Italy's antitrust regulator AGCM has fined Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, for unfair commercial…
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Meta’s AI-supported Ad campaigns boost returns by 32%
Ads on applications from Meta Platforms Inc. saw an increase in return on spending by an average of 32 per cent,…
Egypt’s QNB Al Ahli profits rise by 57% in ’23
Qatar National Bank (QNB) Al Ahli in Egypt witnessed an increase in nets profits in 2023 by 57 per cent, QNB Group…
Meta, Google, Tiktok debts removed from Russian database
Alphabet’s Google and YouTube, along with Meta, TikTok, and Telegram are no longer registered as debtors in the…
HRW attacks Meta for ‘silencing’ pro-Palestinian voices
Human Rights Watch on Thursday accused Meta of "silencing" pro-Palestinian voices on Facebook and Instagram.
Meta removes Egyptian show from live Facebook over Gaza coverage
Kaswaa El-Khelaly stated that Meta, had removed the live broadcast of her show "In the Evening with Kuswah" over…
Meta bans Eye on Palestine in attempt to silence Palestinians
Meta deleted the Eye on Palestine account, which has more than six million followers on Instagram on Wednesday.
Egypt to build its first plant to convert waste to energy in Giza
Egypt is set to build its first plant to convert waste into electric energy, said the Ministry of Military…
Selena Gomez spotted wearing Egyptian label Rigash
American singer and actress Selena Gomez was spotted wearing FW23 White Pleated Leather Skirt by Egyptian label…
Egyptian Museum reveals rare photos of King Menkaure statues discovery
The Egyptian Museum revealed rare photos of the discovery of the King Menkaure statue in 1908 on its Facebook page…
Meta’s platforms down briefly
Meta’s social media platforms, Instagram, Threads and Facebook, and messaging app, WhatsApp, were down briefly and…
Australia threatens to fine Twitter over hate speech
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner’s office has questioned Twitter’s content moderation practices and enforcement of…
Mayar Sherif wins Valencia Open 2023
Egyptian tennis player Mayar Sherif won the Valencia Open 2023 title on Sunday evening, to rank 31 in the world…
Music publishers sue Twitter over copyrighted song violations
17 music publishers sued Twitter in Nashville on Wednesday, for enabling copyright violations by allowing users to…
Jack Dorsey accuses India of Twitter shutdown threats
Jack Dorsey, Twitter's former CEO, has accused Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government on Monday of…
Facebook fined $1.3 billion, given 5 months to stop EU-US data flows
Meta was fined a record $1.3 billion by its lead privacy regulator in the European Union for its handling of user…
Meta to face record EU fine for Facebook data transfer to US
Meta Platforms Inc. is about to face a record European Union privacy fine due to data transfer to the US, two…
Musk: Twitter to allow calls soon
Twitter CEO Elon Musk revealed on Tuesday details about new features on Twitter including calls and encrypted…
Brazil considers regulating monetized online content
Brazilian government secretary for digital policies, Joao Brant said on Friday his government is considering…
YouTube CEO steps down after 9 years
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has decided to step down from the role after nine years, adding that Neal Mohan,…
Meta launches paid verification system fot $12 monthly
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, announced on Sunday that the…
Facebook owner Meta to lay off 11,000 employees in Q1 2023
Meta the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is laying off 13 percent of its staff, or more than 11,000…
Meta shares dives 14% this week
Shares of Facebook parent Meta on Friday are at their lowest point since March 2020, the start of the pandemic,…
Mark to open the first physical store in Metaverse Bet
Meta platforms Inc is opening its first physical store where shoppers have the opportunity to try and buy the…
Facebook founder reportedly warned Trump about the rise of TikTok
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned President Donald Trump at a White House dinner last October that Chinese tech…
U.S. appeals court to not unseal papers in Facebook encryption fight
A federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to unseal a ruling that let Facebook avoid wiretapping a criminal…
Facebook mulls imposing ban on political ads ahead of U.S. polls: Bloomberg
Facebook studies imposing a ban on political ads on its social network in the days leading up to November 3…
Facebook takes down accounts, pages of U.S. President Trump’s Roger Stone
Facebook on Wednesday removed 50 personal and professional pages connected to U.S. President Donald Trump’s…
Biggest lenders in Canada join boycott of Facebook platforms
Canada’s biggest lenders confirmed on Friday they had joined a widespread boycott of Facebook Inc begun by U.S.…
Facebook ad boycott campaign to go global, say organizers
Organisers of a Facebook Inc advertising boycott campaign that has drawn support from a rapidly expanding list of…
Google’s U.S. ad revenue will drop for the first time ever due to coronavirus pandemic
Google’s U.S. advertising revenue is expected to see its first-ever drop this year due to coronavirus pandemic,…
Patagonia joins The North Face in Facebook ad boycott
Outdoor apparel brand Patagonia Inc will pause its ads on Facebook Inc and Facebook’s photo-sharing app, Instagram,…
Civil rights groups urge global firms to pause ad spending on Facebook
U.S. civil rights groups have called upon some of the world’s largest companies to pause advertising on Facebook…
Facebook closes political ads loophole ahead of U.S. presidential poll
Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it would affix labels to political ads shared by users on their own feeds, closing…
Facebook fires employee who protested inaction on U.S. President Trump posts
Facebook Inc fired an employee who had criticized Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s decision not to take action…
Facebook, Twitter, Google to report monthly on fake news fight
Facebook, Google, and Twitter should provide monthly reports on their fight against disinformation, two senior EU…
Facebook’s CEO Zuckerberg promises review of content policies after backlash
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday he would consider changes to the policy that led the company to leave…
Facebook to apply state media labels on Russian, Chinese outlets
Facebook said it will start labeling Russian, Chinese, and other state-controlled media organisations, and later…
Early Facebook staffers denounce CEO Mark Zuckerberg stance on Trump posts
Nearly three dozen former employees from Facebook’s early days on Wednesday blasted Chief Executive Mark…
Facebook staffers walk out saying U.S. Trump’s posts should be reined in
Facebook employees walked away from their work-from-home desks on Monday and took to Twitter to accuse Chief…