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Facebook hires ex-British Deputy Prime Minister Clegg

Freedom Reporter — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 19:27:42 +0000

Facebook Inc (FB.O) has hired former British Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, to lead its global affairs and communications team, as the social network deals with a number of scandals related to privacy, fake news and election meddling. The appointment makes Clegg, former leader of Britain’s Liberal Democrats and deputy to David Cameron in the […]

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Apple co-founder shuts down Facebook account following data misuse scandal

Freedom Reporter — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 12:55:14 +0000

Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, has closed his Facebook account as one of the latest tech leaders who started to distance themselves from the world’s largest social media firm, following its scandal involving alleged misuse of user data. Wozniak told the USA Today daily that he was taken aback by the extent of Facebook’s data collection […]

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2.7m EU users affected by data privacy scandal, says Facebook

Freedom Reporter — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 11:39:10 +0000

Facebook says up to 2.7 million Facebook users in the European Union have been affected by the data privacy scandal, a spokesman for the European Commission said on Friday. “Facebook confirmed to us that the data of overall up to 2.7 million … people in the EU may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica,” […]

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Facebook to double staff fighting online hate speech, propaganda

Freedom Reporter — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 14:16:03 +0000

Facebook plans to double its staff working on reviewing and deleting illegal material in an effort to further crack down on hate speech and terrorist propaganda, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said in Brussels on Tuesday. During her first ever speech in the capital of the European Union, Sandberg aimed to demonstrate her company’s […]

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Mark Zuckerberg ‎meets FIN founder Omolola

Freedom Reporter — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 20:39:11 +0000

Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, on Tuesday received Nigeria’s Lola Omolola, founder of a secret Facebook group called Female in Nigeria (FIN). FIN was founded in 2015 by Omolola, a movement of women focused on building compassion and providing support for one another, with the goal of having up to 1000 members in the group. However, […]

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Facebook records 1.3bn users daily, says Zuckerberg

Freedom Reporter — Thu, 04 May 2017 17:30:06 +0000

Facebook Founder, Mark Zuckerberg, says the social media platform has 1.3 billion daily active users as at the first quarter of 2017. Zuckerberg said on his Facebook page on Wednesday, that users increased by 18 per cent on a year-over-year basis. He said that the Monthly Active Users (MAUs) was 1.94 billion as at March […]

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Mother, son reunite after 33 years through Facebook search

Freedom Reporter — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 21:11:55 +0000

A simple Facebook search reunited a mother and son who were separated without contact for 33 years, the pair said on Thursday. Vipavadee Thisorn, 54, and Parinya Thisorn, 36, met each other for the first time in three decades in an emotional encounter on Wednesday at Thailand’s southern city of Hat Yai. Their meeting came […]

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The Mark Zuckerberg visit, by Reuben Abati

Freedom Reporter — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 11:21:39 +0000

Mark Zuckerberg’s two-day visit to Nigeria has done a lot for the country; it is a pity no government official or agency has tried to tap into the gains of that visit. He arrived at a time there was much talk about economic recession, concerns about companies folding up or retrenching staff, or international investors […]

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Zuckerberg’s visit, mark of Nigeria’s technology industry vibrancy, says MainOne CEO

Robby Akeju — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 18:32:24 +0000

An Information Technology (IT) Firm, MainOne, says the visit of Facebook Founder, Mark Zuckerberg, to Nigeria is a validation of the energy and vibrancy of the country’s technology industry. Ms Funke Opeke, who is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MainOne, in a statement on Thursday in Lagos, said that the technology industry was vibrant […]

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Facebook CEO Zuckerberg visits Nairobi to see ‘Kenyan Innovation in Action’

Freedom Reporter — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 17:55:49 +0000

Facebook (www.Facebook.com) CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in Nairobi, Kenya, using his time in the country to visit the iHub technology hub in Nairobi, meet with developers and partners, and explore how the country’s pioneering mobile money ecosystem is evolving. Zuckerberg will also see how technology innovation is changing the country, learn more about what mobile […]

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Facebook CEO Zuckerberg in Lagos to witness Africa’s tech revolution

Freedom Reporter — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 21:17:48 +0000

Facebook Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mark Zuckerberg, arrived Nigeria on Tuesday on his first trip to Africa, using his time in the country to visit the Yaba technology hub in Lagos, meet with developers and partners, and explore Nollywood. Zuckerberg is in Nigeria to listen and learn and take ideas back to California on how […]

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Ethiopian Airline offers Nigerian Facebook users 50 free tickets to travel around the world

Ola Simeon — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 19:39:00 +0000

As part of celebration to mark 70 years of flight operation around the world, the management of Ethiopian Airline is giving out 50 free tickets to Facebook users in Nigeria. Mr Solomon Begashaw, the General Manager of the Airline, made this known in a chat with newsmen on Thursday in Abuja. “Ethiopian Airlines has […]

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Small arms, light weapons sold via Facebook, WhatsApp

Freedom Reporter — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 20:49:00 +0000

Data collected by Armament Research Services (ARES), inaugurated by the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey, on Monday, revealed that Facebook and WhatsApp were increasingly being used to sell weapons like AK-47. The data contains information about groups and individual traders active on popular social media and communication platforms. It showed that the social medium also truck-mounted […]

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France warns Facebook on data collection

Freedom Reporter — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 21:10:52 +0000

French authorities on Tuesday, called on Facebook to change the way it collects and regulates data of both users and non-users. The call is amidst concerns that current Facebook condition were not in compliance with French law. In separate statements, the French Data Protection Agency, and the Competition Agency gave Facebook management three months to […]

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Fayemi dissociates self from fake facebook account

Femi Adewale — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 23:39:33 +0000

The attention of the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has been drawn to the unscrupulous activities of some individuals who use phoney facebook and Whatsapp accounts in his name to defraud people. Some of these individuals have, through these phoney Facebook and WhatsApp accounts, advertised MDG contracts and solicited payment for application […]

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