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Nigeria to require social media platforms to open local offices
Online platforms like Twitter (TWTR.N), Facebook (META.O) and Tiktok will be required to register and open offices in Nigeria and appoint contact persons ...Britain’s electric car charge faces battery challenge
Britain risks falling behind in the race to establish an electric car industry if it can’t build more battery factories ...Musk gets Twitter for $44 billion, to cheers and fears of ‘free speech’ plan
Elon Musk clinched a deal to buy Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) for $44 billion cash on Monday in a transaction that will shift ...Russian court bans Facebook, Instagram after Meta found ‘extremist’- TASS
A Russian court on Monday banned Facebook and Instagram in the country after finding Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O) “extremist”, TASS news agency ...Visa, Mastercard block Russian financial institutions after sanctions
U.S. payment card firms Visa Inc (V.N) and Mastercard Inc have blocked multiple Russian financial institutions from their network, complying with government ...Brace for Russian cyber attacks as Ukraine crisis deepens, Britain says
Britain warned big business on Friday to bolster defences against possible Russian cyber attacks as Western fears deepened that President ...Facebook changes its company name to Meta
Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Thursday it would rebrand as Meta, a name change that comes as the company battles ...Facebook harms children and weakens democracy: ex-employee
A former Facebook employee told members of Congress Tuesday that the company knows that its platform spreads misinformation and content ...Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp down in global outage
Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were hit by a massive outage Monday, impacting potentially tens of millions of ...China welcomes Huawei executive home, but silent on freed Canadians
Chinese state media welcomed telecoms giant Huawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, back to the “motherland” on Saturday, after more ...