Migrants risk extreme heat, long walks, and gang violence just to get to live in the U.S. However, many of them have been fed false information by smugglers on social media, particularly on Facebook and WhatsApp.
The Federal Trade Commission along with 48 states in the U.S. filed a lawsuit against social media giant Facebook for acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp, making it a social media monopoly.
Facebook announced that it is rolling out a new feature on Messenger and Instagram. The announcement was made after Facebook-owned WhatsApp launched a new feature.
More than a dozen members of WhatsApp were arrested by Spanish police due to child abuse. (Photo : Reuters) Spanish police said that they have arrested 33 people worldwide in connection with the explicit images in WhatsApp which is a clear manifestation of child abuse due to its violent content.
Facebook brings out new WhatsApp Status feature very similar to Snapchat Stories. Facebook is known to constantly test out new features with the app as well as its messaging subsidiary.
WhatsApp has received a new update, with the inclusion of an advanced and more secure two-factor authenticator to help combat threats and improve security.
WhatsApp users are in danger of losing their banking and personal information from hackers that have sent virus-laced Word and Excel files to unsuspecting users.
This week in social media, a judge in Brazil ordered WhatsApp to be blocked throughout the country (again) and that order was overturned within a day (again).
About 100 million Brazilians collectively cried out in anguish on Monday. But you wouldn't hear it from them, because that anguish was over yet another government shutdown of WhatsApp, which as Latin Post previously noted, is a free and vital form of daily communication for Brazilians.
This week in social media, Facebook and its subsidiary WhatsApp backed Apple in its encryption fight with the FBI, the same week that a WhatsApp executive was briefly jailed in Brazil in a similar case.
Diego Dzodan, Facebook's vice president for Latin America, spent the night in jail before he was set free on Wednesday, March 2, following a grant to his appeal that overrules a lower court's decision to take him into custody.
Brazilian law enforcers arrested Facebook’s Latin America regional vice-president after WhatsApp failed to comply with a court order demanding information from the social media company’s subsidiary.
After WhatsApp revealed that they won't be charging its users $0.99 cents for its annual fee, the app now aims to make business with corporations that wish to reach their clients through the mobile app.
Paradoxically, it's because the company wants to make more money. This week, the Facebook-owned instant messaging app WhatsApp announced it was eliminating the nominal $0.
