Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has hit out at French authorities, calling his arrest last week in relation to allegations of insufficient moderation on the messaging app "misguided".
A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that roughly 150 older workers who were laid off by social media platform X when Elon Musk acquired the company can sue for age discrimination as a class, exposing the company to millions of dollars in potential damages.
X, formerly Twitter, has been banned in Brazil after failing to meet a deadline set by a Supreme Court judge to name a new legal representative in the country.
Telegram boss and founder Pavel Durov has been placed under formal investigation in France as part of a probe into organised crime on the messaging app, Paris prosecutors say.
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg says he regrets bowing to what he calls pressure from the Biden administration to "censor" content on Facebook and Instagram during the coronavirus pandemic.
Multiplayer shooter game Fortnite is available again on iPhones in the European Union and worldwide on Google's Android devices after a gap of four years, following legal measures by the EU, developer Epic Games said on Friday.
TikTok told a federal appeals court, on Thursday that the U.S. Department of Justice has misstated the social media app's ties to China, urging the court to overturn a law requiring China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok's U.S. assets or face a ban.
Africa's biggest telecoms operator MTN Group on Wednesday said it will swing to a half-year loss, hit by the devaluation of the Nigerian naira and operational challenges in Sudan.
Nearly 17,000 athletes and the Olympic family for the Olympic and Paralympic Games have received their Samsung Galaxy Z Flip6 Olympic Edition at the Olympic rendezvous @ Samsung showcase within the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Village.
The US government has filed a new lawsuit against TikTok, accusing the social media company of unlawfully collecting children’s data and failing to respond when parents tried to delete their children’s accounts.
Turkey’s internet regulator has blocked access to Instagram, with local reports suggesting it relates to the death of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh.
The National Communications Authority (NCA) has acknowledged public concerns, particularly on social media about the high cost of internet data and the designation of MTN as a Significant Market Power (SMP).
Nigeria fined Meta platforms and opened a new tab worth US$220 million, its competition watchdog said on Friday, after investigations showed data-sharing on social platforms violated local consumer, data protection and privacy laws.
Fitch Solutions, the research arm of Fitch Ratings, has expressed uncertainty over the viability of Ghana’s wholesale 5G national network to be led by a consortium of local entities and two players from India, alongside Nokia and Microsoft – collectively known as the Next Generation Infrastructure Company (NGIC).
Microsoft (MSFT.O) will not roll out "Recall", an AI-powered feature that tracks computer usage, with its new computers next week and will instead preview it with a smaller group later, the tech giant said on Thursday, amid concerns of privacy risks.
Elon Musk has unexpectedly asked a California court to withdraw a legal case against OpenAI and its boss Sam Altman, which accused them of abandoning the firm's founding mission of developing artificial intelligence (AI) for humanity's benefit.
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, threatened to ban Apple devices from his companies on Monday after the iPhone maker announced a partnership with OpenAI.
Plans to use peoples' public posts and images on Facebook and Instagram to train artificial intelligence (AI) tools belonging to parent company Meta have been attacked by digital rights groups.