US president Donald Trump signs an executive order aimed at removing some of the legal protections given to social media platforms.

The bottom line is that to be an effective digital citizen, you need to put your privacy at risk, or even forsake it altogether, says Terry White, executive consultant at Netsurit.

Facebook Shops allows businesses to sell products to customers through the chat features of WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram Direct.

The social media giant’s shareholders will vote on public concerns raised about how end-to-end encryption could promote child abuse on the platform.

Investigations by the Hawks to identify and locate these fake account operators, and bring them to book, are at an advanced stage.

The social media doyen rolls out Messenger Rooms, which lets people create a ‘room’ to host joinable free video calls with up to 50 people.

The 37 000km-long 2Africa cable will deliver more than the total combined capacity of all subsea cables serving Africa today.

The new oversight board has been armed with an independent $130 million war chest to fund its operations.

Video-conferencing giants Zoom, Google and Microsoft battle it out with new rivals as the market’s global revenue projections hit $8 billion.

The social media company provides a grant to help South African news organisations navigate the economic impact of the coronavirus crisis.

Having already made several arrests, government is making strides in the fight against COVID-19 falsehoods, says the Centre for Analytics and Behaviour Change.

The mobile video-sharing app advances its safety tools by introducing a family pairing feature to be rolled out in the coming weeks.