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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 reported. Russia ...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 sanctions imposed ...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 Vladimir Putin ...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 criticisms from ...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 that harms ...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 users as ...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 than 1,000 ...US and allies accuse China of global hacking spree
The United States and its allies accused China on Monday of a global cyberespionage campaign, mustering an unusually broad coalition of countries ...Trump Facebook ban remains but oversight board rips company policies
Facebook Inc’s oversight board on Wednesday upheld the company’s suspension of former U.S. President Donald Trump but said the company was wrong ...Australian parliament passes media reforms after last-ditch changes
Australia’s parliament passed a law on Thursday to make Alphabet Inc’s Google and Facebook Inc pay media companies for content on their ...