Centre to summon Meta officials over alleged child sexual abuse ads on Instagram
The Centre will summon Meta officials over advertisements hosted on Instagram that allegedly promoted child sexual abuse, sources said on Friday.
The Centre will summon Meta officials over advertisements hosted on Instagram that allegedly promoted child sexual abuse, sources said on Friday.
WhatsApp has clarified that its upcoming usernames feature will be optional and will include safeguards against impersonation and unwanted messages after the Centre asked Meta to pause the rollout in India.
When Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014 for $19 billion, many observers struggled to understand the logic of paying such a staggering sum for a messaging service that generated little revenue.
The Attorney General for India, R. Venkataramani, has informed the Supreme Court that messaging platform WhatsApp has blocked around 9,400 accounts in 2026 that were being used for so-called “digital arrest” scams to extort money from victims.
A US lawsuit alleging message interception has triggered a sharp response from Musk and Durov, raising fresh questions over WhatsApp’s privacy claims and encryption system.
The ban order was issued just a few days after the government of Nepal mandated that social media companies, including Facebook, X (previously known as Twitter), YouTube, TikTok, and others, open offices there
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The discovery comes as Meta has faced criticism from Instagram and Facebook users who are posting "pro-Palestinian" content.
More than 60 per cent of people on WhatsApp in India message a business app account every week and revenue from “click to message ads” in India has doubled year-over-year, Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said.
Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly testing a new "quick action bar" feature on its Business app for Android, which will let users "quickly perform different actions".
