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The bosses of the main social networks, Meta, X, TikTok, Snap and Discord will be heard at the end of January in the US Senate on their efforts to protect children from sexual exploitation on their platforms, elected officials announced on Wednesday. This hearing, scheduled for January 31, is the …

Russian authorities on Sunday included Andy Stone, the spokesperson for the American social media giant Meta, parent company of Facebook and Whatsapp, in the list of people wanted, even though the company is classified as “extremist” in the country. Andy Stone’s name now appears in the Russian Interior Ministry’s database …

The European Union announced on Thursday the opening of an investigation targeting the social networks Meta (Facebook, Instagram) and Tiktok. The institution demands details on the measures they are implementing against the dissemination of “false information” and “illegal content”, after Hamas attacks against Israel. It explained that it had sent …

Documents, messages, photos, videos… The content and data that you produce and receive accumulate quickly in the memory of your smartphone to the point of running out of storage space. A situation that WhatsApp is likely to worsen due to the new functionality deployed by the messaging service. This now …

The Somali government on Sunday decreed a ban on TikTok, Telegram and an online betting site claiming that these platforms were used by “terrorists” for propaganda purposes. This decision comes as the second phase of the military offensive against radical Al-Shabaab Islamists, who have been leading a bloody insurrection against …

An Interpol operation against organized crime based in West Africa, specializing in internet scams, led to the seizure of two million euros and the arrest of a hundred people in various countries, the international organization announced Tuesday in a press release. During this operation called “Jackal” targeting organized crime groups …

Senegalese authorities announced the suspension of the social network TikTok, claiming that citizens are using it to spread hateful messages, threatening the stability of the country. The information was brought to the public by the Ministry of Communication, Telecommunications and the Digital Economy. According to the statement, “TikTok is the …

Meta Group began blocking Canadians’ access to media content on Facebook and Instagram on Tuesday (August 1) in response to a new law forcing digital giants to pay publishers. Links and content posted by Canadian and foreign media “will no longer be visible to people in Canada,” Meta said, stressing …

The iRecorder app is no longer the nice screen recorder. Now it spies on Android users who have downloaded it. A recording taken without your knowledge every quarter of an hour. This is the sad reality of the iRecorder app. Available only on Android phones, this application has changed a …

After end-to-end encryption, the integration of ephemeral messages or the possibility of locking a discussion using a PIN code or biometric data saved on a device, WhatsApp continues to improve the privacy protection of exchanges on its platform with the arrival of a new feature. Tired of receiving calls from …