WhatsApp and Facebook owner Meta faces a contempt of court charge in South Africa. Local attorneys are looking to hold the US-based group accountable for failing to provide data on individuals posting ...

The NSW and SA governments are jointly hosting a two-day summit to discuss how to address social media harms. Keynote speaker Frances Haugen, a former Facebook product manager who became a ...

WASHINGTON — Most users are now able to sign in to Facebook after an outage Tuesday morning that left them off of social media for over an hour. Facebook, Instagram and Threads all appeared to have ...

Facebook finally admitted the truth: The “fact checks” that social media use to police what Americans read and watch are just “opinion.” That’s thanks to a lawsuit brought by celebrated journalist ...

When apps used by billions of people worldwide blinked out, lives were disrupted, businesses were cut off from customers — and some Facebook employees were locked out of their offices. By Mike Isaac ...

Executives at the social network have clashed over CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned data tool that revealed users’ high engagement levels with right-wing media sources. By Kevin Roose One day in April, ...

Facebook South Africa has responded to the Information Regulator’s (IR’s) data privacy concerns, saying user contact details will not be shared between the social media giant and its sister company ...

After many WhatsApp users raised their concerns over the application’s privacy policy update, Information Regulator South Africa (SA) has stepped to discuss the matter. In a statement, the Information ...

Doing spring cleaning and looking to make some extra cash? You may decide to sell your stuff online. But wait...there are so many options for selling your stuff online. How are you supposed to know ...

Facebook chose South Africa over Kenya and Nigeria for its first African office because the country has a strong advertising agency ecosystem and the companies it’s worked most closely with to date on ...

Social network giant Facebook has lost close to one million South Africa users over the past three months, according to data from social media monitoring firm, SocialBakers. South Africa ranks 32 on ...

Susan Kare designed the smiling Macintosh, Facebook's gifts icons, and many of the tech world's signature images. During her illustrious career, she has worked with Steve Jobs at Apple and NeXT, as ...