LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Meta, owner of popular social media platform, Facebook has deactivated account of Human Rights Activist and Politician, Omoleye Sowore. A quick check by our correspondent shows that Sowore’s account cannot be found again on Facebook after several attacks by him against Peter Obi, Labour Party’s presidential candidate in 2023. While it’s not…
LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-With significant interest, the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN) has received the news that the Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal (CCT) upheld the $220 million fine imposed on Meta Platforms Incorporated, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. The penalty was imposed after a 30-month investigation between 2021 and 2023…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Content creators in Nigeria can now earn money from ad revenue as Meta has made good its promise of making the country eligible for monetisation. Meta had promised in May this year that it would allow Facebook monetisation in Nigeria by June. It said, “Monetisation won’t be limited to just Instagram. Nigerian…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-People in Senegal have been experiencing internet disruptions as authorities restrict access to social media amid protests. Many of the most popular platforms around, including Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and YouTube, went dark across the country on the evening of June 1—UK-based internet watchdog NetBlocks has reported. Senegal is the third country…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has once again, appreciated his numerous supporters across the nation, saying that the journey to rescuing the country would be difficult without them, while notifying the public of the various acts of impersonation against him on the internet. In a statement signed…
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The apps, owned by Facebook, stopped working Monday for millions of users across the U.S., according to outage site Down Detector. Both the mobile and web browser editions of the apps were not working as of 11:42 a.m. ET, the site reported. They were down for more than six hours. “To the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth has fallen by nearly $7 billion in a few hours, knocking him down a notch on the list of the world’s richest people, after a whistleblower came forward and outages took Facebook Inc.’s flagship products offline. A selloff sent the social-media giant’s stock plummeting around 5% on Monday,…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Former US president Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against tech giants Google, Twitter and Facebook, claiming that he is the victim of censorship. The class action lawsuit also targets the three companies’ CEOs. Mr Trump was suspended from his social accounts in January over public safety concerns in the wake…
