Facebook on Thursday said its WhatsApp messaging app would start to offer in-app purchases and hosting services, as it moves to boost revenue from the app while knitting together e-commerce infrastructure across the company.
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Twitter is revising its “Hacked Materials Policy”, which lay at the heart of its enforcement action this week against a controversial New York Post article.
US President Donald Trump and his political allies reacted with fury after Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday restricted a New York Post article linking Joe Biden and his son Hunter to a Ukrainian energy company.
Social media companies are facing heightened scrutiny and pressure to do more to keep their platforms from becoming vectors of misinformation, election meddling and all-around disorder as the US gets ready to vote.
Lesotho’s government is seeking to regulate online behaviour with a law compelling social media users to obtain an “Internet broadcasting allowance”, as unease about digital platforms grows in some African countries.
Facebook has classified the QAnon conspiracy theory movement as dangerous and began removing Facebook groups and pages as well as Instagram accounts that hold themselves out as representatives.
ByteDance is working with US regulators to resolve outstanding security concerns over its planned sale of a stake in TikTok, and the companies involved are bracing for the approval process to drag on past the November election.
Facebook said some users can now send messages between Messenger and Instagram – the first step toward a full integration of the company’s three separate social media services.
A US judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration order that was set to bar Apple and Google from offering Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok for download on Sunday.
US President Donald Trump asked a San Francisco judge to stay an injunction blocking a ban on Tencent’s WeChat, arguing the Chinese-owned messaging app jeopardises national security.