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.
Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out a new feature, which will allow users to keep messages from disappearing on iOS and Android beta.
Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly working to bring communities to its WhatsApp Business application on Android.Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly working to bring communities to its WhatsApp Business application on Android.
When the feature will be available to the beta testers, they will still be able to send images using the standard compression method, which will be useful for those who want to save storage space.
Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out a new feature which will allow users to share up to 100 media within the chats, on iOS beta.
Meta has now added several new features to WhatsApp status, which will let users post disappearing pictures and other media.
