The company sets aside millions of rands for a COVID-19 response grant focusing on education, small businesses and jobseekers.

Digify Africa is looking for South Africa’s next great digital marketers who will participate in its three-month Digify Pro digital skills programme.

The social media giant says the grant will assist local companies with cashflow in an effort to stimulate the COVID-hit economy.

The latest data from the social media company shows AI helped it detect 95% of the hate speech it removed between April and June.

The social media giant welcomes 12 community leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa to its first community accelerator, with six of them from SA.

By 2023, 44% of the global population will use social networks, with the evolution of smartphone tech driving new iterations on old ideas of social media.

The company fixes a flaw that allowed third-party app developers to collect users’ personal information after authorised access to the data had expired.

To survive in this rapidly-changing landscape, the strategy for youth should be innovation and digital transformation, say two senior execs.

The social media company launches “My Digital World”, an initiative designed to equip the youth with digital skills needed to navigate their safety and privacy online.

Despite warnings that it is a breeding ground for predators, new kid on the block TikTok takes South Africa’s social media space by storm.

The social media giant looks to review potential options for handling violating or partially-violating content.

The employees write an open letter addressing Facebook’s leadership about the decision not to act on US president Donald Trump’s inflammatory posts.