Facebook has come under fire for a “barbaric use of technology” that allowed the sale of a child bride to be held on its site. An auction was held on the social media platform for a 16-year-old girl in South…
Child bride auctioned off on Facebook (CNN)
Facebook has come under fire for a “barbaric use of technology” that allowed the sale of a child bride to be held on its site. An auction was held on the social media platform for a 16-year-old girl in South…
Lagos car radio licence policy: To be or not to be? * Firm to build Lagos-Abuja 45 minutes rail (Vanguard)
Lagos car radio licence policy: To be or not to be? When Lagos State introduced the car radio licence policy in 2017, conservative estimates put the revenue at 170 million naira. The annual car radio license policy introduced by the…
Facebook sorry for ‘white supremacist ad’ (BBC)
Facebook has apologised after it approved an ad campaign targeted at people interested in a conspiracy theory favoured by white nationalists. News site The Intercept was able to launch a promotion aimed at 168,000 users interested in “white genocide.” Prosecutors…
Why only truly indigenous e-commerce companies are champions – Dr. Ajit Singh
By midday on Tuesday September 4th 2018, a remarkable development, whose reverberations are still felt today, shook the e-commerce world and the whole of Wall Street. Amazon, an American e-commerce giant, had followed Apple Inc. to become the second U.S.…
Married man posts nude photos of ex-girlfriend on Facebook (Punch)
A married man, Ayan Olubunmi, was on Wednesday handed a two-year jail term with a fine of N500,000 by a Federal High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti for posting nude pictures of his ex-lover, Arare Monica, on Facebook. The News Agency…
Facebook’s ‘spam purge’ is silencing genuine debate, political page creators say (Guardian)
On Thursday, Facebook announced it had removed more than 800 political pages and accounts for “coordinated inauthentic behavior” and spamming. This week, the people behind the pages Facebook purged for being inauthentic are angry. They feel they’ve been unfairly targeted…
How to check what Facebook hackers accessed in your account (ABC)
Could hackers have been able to see the last person you cyberstalked, or that party photo you were tagged in? According to Facebook, the unfortunate answer is “yes.” On Friday, the social network said fewer users were affected in a…
