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Twitter, Instagram restricts Kanye West’s accounts following anti-Semitic posts

Kanye West’s Twitter and Instagram accounts were restricted over the weekend, with the social media platforms saying they removed the rapper’s posts after online users condemned them as anti-Semitic. He was first locked out of his Instagram by Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc on Friday after which he took to Twitter, where he tweeted on… Read More Twitter, Instagram restricts Kanye West’s accounts following anti-Semitic posts

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Iran restricts access to Instagram and WhatsApp as protests intensify

Iran curbed access on Wednesday to Meta Platforms’ Instagram and WhatsApp, two of the last remaining social networks in the country, amid protests over the death of a woman in police custody, residents and internet watchdog NetBlocks said. Last week’s death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by morality police in Tehran for “unsuitable… Read More Iran restricts access to Instagram and WhatsApp as protests intensify

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Ireland slams $402million fine on Instagram over its handling of children’s data

Ireland’s data privacy regulator has agreed to levy a record fine of 405 million euros (an equivalent of $402 million) against social network Instagram following an investigation into its handling of children’s data, a spokesperson for the watchdog said. Instagram plans to appeal against the fine, a spokesperson for parent Meta Platforms Inc said in… Read More Ireland slams $402million fine on Instagram over its handling of children’s data

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Facebook asks judge to dismiss U.S. lawsuit seeking to force sale of Instagram, WhatsApp

Facebook Inc asked a judge on Monday to dismiss the U.S. government’s revised antitrust case that seeks to force the social media giant to sell Instagram and WhatsApp. Facebook said in a court filing that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had failed to provide a “plausible factual basis for branding Facebook an unlawful monopolist.” The… Read More Facebook asks judge to dismiss U.S. lawsuit seeking to force sale of Instagram, WhatsApp

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Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp back online following hours of global outage

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are reconnected to the global internet, 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 Downdetector said was the largest such failure it had ever seen. Around… Read More Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp back online following hours of global outage

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Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp globally down due to technical issues

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went offline for users across the globe, the social media giant said on Monday, as it worked on restoring the services after being hit by one of its longest outages. The disruption, which hit Facebook’s platforms minutes before noon, comes a day after a whistleblower accused the firm of repeatedly prioritizing… Read More Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp globally down due to technical issues

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