Polish writer faces three years in jail for calling the country’s president a ‘moron’ on Facebook 

Polish writer faces three years in jail for calling the country’s president a ‘moron’ on Facebook Jakub Zulczyk said he had been charged for insulting President Andrzej Duda On November 7, Zulczyk commented on a Facebook post in which Duda congratulated US President Joe Biden on his successful campaign In the post, Duda – an … Read more

How do you buy overseas shares like Facebook or Tesla?

Russ Mould , investment research director at platform AJ Bell Youinvest, explains what admin, tax and currency issues to be aware of when buying and selling shares listed outside the UK It is as easy to buy and sell shares listed on most developed, Western stock markets as it is domestic, London-listed ones. You can … Read more

Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are back online after an hour crash that frustrated users worldwide

Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are back online after an hour outage that frustrated users across the world  Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook and Messenger are back online The services stopped working at about 5:30 GMT around the world The outages were first reported by the website Downdetector  By Ryan Morrison For Mailonline Published: 17:42 GMT, 19 March … Read more

Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp CRASH: Social media apps go down across the world

Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are DOWN: Social media apps crash for frustrated users across the world Facebook owned Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook and Messenger are down The services stopped working at about 17:30 GMT around the world The outages were first reported by the website Downdetector  By Ryan Morrison For Mailonline Published: 17:42 GMT, 19 March … Read more

Facebook may create an Instagram for kids under 13 who are prohibited from using app

Facebook may soon be creating an Instagram designed primarily for children, a development coming just days after Instagram vowed to do more to protect children. The app would be for children under the age of 13. Users of Instagram currently need to be at least 13 years old to register for the app, though there’s … Read more

Facebook planning on Instagram for kids under 13 years old, who are prohibited from using the app 

Facebook may soon be creating an Instagram designed primarily for children, a development coming just days after Instagram vowed to do more to protect children. The app would be for children under the age of 13. Users of Instagram currently need to be at least 13 years old to register for the app, though there’s … Read more

Facebook signs deals with News Corp and Nine in Australia

Facebook has made multi-million-dollar deals with Australia’s two biggest commercial media companies to pay for using their content on its site. The social media platform has signed and three-year deal with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and a letter of intent with Nine Entertainment. It comes after a world-first new law forcing Google and Facebook to … Read more

Councillor is suspended for dressing up as a woman on Facebook in protest at idea of curfew for men

Councillor is suspended for dressing up as a woman on Facebook in protest at idea of a 6pm curfew for men after Sarah Everard’s murder Mark Deacon, conservative councillor for Plymouth, posted image on Facebook Said he would wear a floral pink dress and long black wig if curfew was imposed  He has been suspended … Read more

Facebook asks judge to toss antitrust lawsuits brought by FTC and 48 states

Facebook has asked a court to dismiss state and federal antitrust lawsuits that accuse it of abusing its market power in social networking to crush smaller competitors. The social media giant said Wednesday that the complaints ‘do not credibly claim’ that its conduct harmed either consumers or market competition. The antitrust suits, filed in December … Read more

Facebook flags WSJ op-ed on ‘herd immunity’ by Johns Hopkins professor as ‘fake news’

The Wall Street Journal has claimed that Facebook fact-checkers relied on ‘opinion and not facts’ after an op-d written by Johns Hopkins professor Dr Marty Makary (pictured) was flagged last week. The Wall Street Journal has revealed that Facebook fact-checkers relied on ‘opinion and not facts’ when they flagged an op-ed that was written by … Read more