Backing the draft were traditional media, in urgent search of income at a time when web users shun newspapers and television
The centre is expected to be operational around 2022, and will host Facebook servers and centralise its IT operations
Thabani Mzolo, 23, appeared in the Durban magistrate’s court on Wednesday where he was served with an indictment
Facebook has launched Watch amid a shift in video viewing habits away from traditional television to online platforms
The process of setting up the new body to help safeguard our democracy has met with obstacles
The social network says it removed more than 650 pages, groups and accounts
Women in the media are targeted by trolls and it is resulting in self-censorship
Shutting down mobile and internet services is costing several African countries millions
of dollars
Apple, Facebook, Spotify and YouTube have all banned Alex Jones on the grounds that he engages in hate speech
‘Why people allow Facebook to make up their minds for them is beyond me and that might be the real question here’
Facebook shut down 32 fake pages and accounts involved in an apparent ‘coordinated’ effort to stoke hot-button issues ahead of midterm US elections
Judges at the Federal Constitutional Court found that the daughter’s Facebook was part of her legacy and should be passed on to the mother
Despite the creation of dozens of fact-checking initiatives in recent years, efforts to stem the proliferation of false information remain weak
Incidents of racism in the US are hardly news, but smartphones and social networks are catapulting such seemingly fleeting moments into the spotlight
Germany is far from the first country to see moral and legal battles over how to deal with digital data whose owners have passed away
Britain’s data regulator says it will fine Facebook half a million pounds for failing to protect users’ data
Twenty-nine-year-old Velaphi Khumalo made the comments in a Facebook post in January 2016
Your data is giving Big Tech control of everything and only a huge shift by the people can halt it
Companies, such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft are working together to take down terrorist propaganda
The Information Regulator is concerned about the increasing number of cyber attacks affecting personal data
Social media sites aren’t the only online systems that can secretly influence people’s votes
Uganda’s Parliament voted to implement a new social media tax, limiting access to apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter
Authorities keep close tabs on Twitter, Facebook and Whatsapp
Some analysts say the concerns about cybercrime are overblown, and that sophisticated cybercriminals can easily hide their tracks
The social media chief executive will answer questions in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal
Two young innovators are bringing information about taxis and kasi businesses to your phone
The British marketing analytics firm is going to file for insolvency in Britain and the US after failing to recover from the Facebook data scandal
Mark Zuckerberg said the social network will soon include a new dating feature – while vowing to make privacy protection its top priority
Co-founder Jan Koum put the word out that he is leaving Facebook, which bought the smartphone messaging service four years ago for $19-billion
The lecturer is ‘sincerely sorry’ for data mining, but insisted there was a widespread belief that users knew their data was being sold and shared
The social media giant took out full-page ads in European newspapers to trumpet tough new EU legislation
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg began his testimony before the United States’ Congress on Tuesday.