Brazil has fined Elon Musk's companies after some users in the country were able to briefly access the social media platform X, despite a ban imposed last month.
Facebook owner Meta says it is banning several Russian state media networks, alleging they use deceptive tactics to carry out influence operations and evade detection on its platforms.
Ahead of the Cyber Security month in October, Ghana attained Tier 1 status in the 2024 Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) released by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
TikTok will start making its case on Monday against a law that will see it banned in the US unless Chinese owner ByteDance sells the social media app within nine months.
Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has hit out at French authorities, calling his arrest last week in relation to allegations of insufficient moderation on the messaging app "misguided".
A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that roughly 150 older workers who were laid off by social media platform X when Elon Musk acquired the company can sue for age discrimination as a class, exposing the company to millions of dollars in potential damages.
X, formerly Twitter, has been banned in Brazil after failing to meet a deadline set by a Supreme Court judge to name a new legal representative in the country.
Telegram boss and founder Pavel Durov has been placed under formal investigation in France as part of a probe into organised crime on the messaging app, Paris prosecutors say.
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg says he regrets bowing to what he calls pressure from the Biden administration to "censor" content on Facebook and Instagram during the coronavirus pandemic.
Multiplayer shooter game Fortnite is available again on iPhones in the European Union and worldwide on Google's Android devices after a gap of four years, following legal measures by the EU, developer Epic Games said on Friday.
TikTok told a federal appeals court, on Thursday that the U.S. Department of Justice has misstated the social media app's ties to China, urging the court to overturn a law requiring China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok's U.S. assets or face a ban.
Africa's biggest telecoms operator MTN Group on Wednesday said it will swing to a half-year loss, hit by the devaluation of the Nigerian naira and operational challenges in Sudan.
Nearly 17,000 athletes and the Olympic family for the Olympic and Paralympic Games have received their Samsung Galaxy Z Flip6 Olympic Edition at the Olympic rendezvous @ Samsung showcase within the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Village.
The US government has filed a new lawsuit against TikTok, accusing the social media company of unlawfully collecting children’s data and failing to respond when parents tried to delete their children’s accounts.
Turkey’s internet regulator has blocked access to Instagram, with local reports suggesting it relates to the death of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh.
The National Communications Authority (NCA) has acknowledged public concerns, particularly on social media about the high cost of internet data and the designation of MTN as a Significant Market Power (SMP).
Nigeria fined Meta platforms and opened a new tab worth US$220 million, its competition watchdog said on Friday, after investigations showed data-sharing on social platforms violated local consumer, data protection and privacy laws.
