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Meta is working directly with South Africa’s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and other tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft to combat election misinformation in South Africa.
Meta will allow Nigerian and Kenyan content creators to monetise their content on Instagram and Facebook starting in June 2024.
Meta recently announced that it would discontinue the Facebook Groups API, posing challenges for digital marketers and companies that provide social media post scheduling and automation as a service.
X, formerly Twitter, has launched audio and video features for Android users. Anyone can receive calls, but only verified users can initiate them.
TikTok has expanded its Add to Music App feature to 19 countries, including South Africa, following its successful launch in the United States and United Kingdom in November 2023.
Kenya’s President William Ruto has announced that Facebook and Instagram content creators can monetise their audience. This news comes a year after Meta announced that over 20 countries in sub-Saharan Africa would start earning from Facebook Reels.
Following a petition to ban TikTok in Kenya, the short-form video platform has committed to working with the Kenyan government to review and monitor content on the app. It also plans to set up a regional office in Nairobi.
X users (formerly Twitter) in Nigeria are getting payouts from the platform. We asked @abazwhyllzz how he racked up 58 million impressions and made ₦220k.
Threads might have gained 100 million users in 4 days but daily active users have dropped by 20% and users have cut time spent on the app by 50%. Threads has its work cut out for it, and Twitter is not the only one it’s up against.
From collecting user data without authorisation to several cases of leaked information, Meta is not the saint its posing to be with Threads.
Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is an expert copycat and cloning Twitter with threads is only his most recent endeavor. Here are 5 apps that Zuckerberg has cloned over the years and how they performed.
Meta’s Threads app launches in 100 countries, hitting 10 million users in 7 hours. Here’s what you should know about the Twitter rival.
Meta plans to roll out Threads, a microblogging platform, on July 6, 2023, to compete with Twitter. Threads will connect to Instagram, giving users access to their Instagram followers and following lists.
WhatsApp is introducing two new updates, Silence Unknown Callers and Privacy Checkup, to strengthen user privacy on the messaging platform.
The Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON) has released vetting rates for ads on social media. The Council will charge between ₦7,500 and ₦100,000 to vet the social media ads before it goes live. This is coming after ARCON said in 2022 that advertisers will be required to obtain pre-exposure approval for all adverts.
There are more than 30 million social media users in Nigeria, but with smartphone and Internet penetration expected to rise, how will social media affect political processes in Nigeria?
Instagram is rolling out a new feature that allows users to schedule posts in advance directly from the app. The feature is available to professional accounts and will allow users to schedule Photo, Reels, and Carousel posts up to 75 days in advance. Why this matters: Content creators and social media managers have always had…
WhatsApp has announced that it will make some privacy-related changes to its messaging app to protect the privacy of its users. Screenshot blocking, leaving groups quietly, and stealth mode are among these features.
As the concerns for whether Twitter would succumb to the Nigerian government’s conditions is finally laid to rest, it calls to mind the issue of privacy and free speech on the social media platform and questions if more censorships will surface later
The Nigerian president has once again raised Nigerians’ hopes about the indefinite #TwitterBan. As it were, it continues until the social media company agrees to the government’s terms. What is the implication for the populace?