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.
By 2016-17, Facebook had designed a business model that aimed at maximising the ‘user engagement’, that is how much time users spent on their platform, and started collecting data on what they liked and shared.
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a public interest litigation (PIL) raising concerns about the privacy, integrity, and security of communications through messaging services WhatsApp and Telegram.
The DVC has opened its floodgates after the midnight hours and had informed Bengal government through in WhatsApp, senior officials claimed amidst state's charges of giving 'no prior intimation of the discharge today.
At an age when people easily choose WhatsApp, Instagram for instant communication, a bunch of villages in East Burdwan have joined hands to raise funds for overhauling of a fragile 142-year-old post office structure here.
Meta-owned WhatsApp on Tuesday rolled out a new feature that will help users stay safe in group messaging.
