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  • Man ends up in prison for Facebook posts

    Man ends up in prison for Facebook posts

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    A Ho Chi Minh City court has sentenced a man to four and half years in prison for writing anti-state social media posts, Vietnam’s state media reported on Thursday. Bui Vo, 56, was found guilty on Wednesday of “conducting propaganda against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam’’ in his Facebook posts, criticising the ruling Communist Party…

  • Facebook rejigs after data privacy scandal

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    Facebook on Tuesday announced that Jeff Zients, the CEO of Cranemere, has been appointed to the company’s board of directors and audit committee, effective May 31, 2018, immediately following Facebook’s annual meeting of stockholders. Following Zients’s appointment the board will consist of seven independent, non-employee directors out of nine total directors. “I am proud to…

  • Facebook says to curb foreign Ads related to abortion referendum in Ireland

    Facebook says to curb foreign Ads related to abortion referendum in Ireland

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    The Facebook social network said on Tuesday that it would not accept foreign ads related to the referendum of abortions that would be held in Ireland on May 25. The eighth amendment to the Irish constitution recognises the equal right to life of the mother and the unborn. It prohibits abortion unless the life of…

  • Delta PDP warns aspirants, loyalists not to heat up polity on social media

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    The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State has issued a warning barring aspirants and loyalists of the party not to unnecessarily heat up the political space of the State on the social media. This is contained in a press release signed and made available to TheNewsGuru by Ifeanyi Michael Osuoza, the party’s State Publicity…

  • NNPC denies social media recruitment advert

    NNPC denies social media recruitment advert

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    The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says the recruitment advertisement by the corporation currently trending on social media is false. In a statement in Abuja on Sunday, the NNPC spokesman, Mr Ndu Ughamadu, said that the advertisement was intended to mislead innocent members of the public. According to him, the advertisement is set in NNPC’s…

  • Facebook announces dating feature, to engage ‘army’ on security

    Facebook announces dating feature, to engage ‘army’ on security

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    Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced a new dating feature for the Facebook app and revealed before the year 2018 ends, the social media platform will engage an army of 20,000 people to work on security and content review. The Facebook founder and chief executive officer made this known in his keynote at the platform’s F8…

  • Instagram sets for 5 new mind-blowing features

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    The world’s most popular image-sharing social network, Instagram is reportedly planning to add several new functional features to its interface as it looks to up the ante against Snapchat. These new features might include a new video call feature, Stories reactions – similar to the ones on Facebook, a new Slow-Mo mode for Stories, a…

  • Cambridge Analytica: Twitter involvement comes to light

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    After the Facebook data scandal, it has now come to notice that Twitter had also sold data access to a Cambridge Analytica researcher who gathered the data of nearly 87 million Facebook users without their knowledge, The Sunday Telegraph reported. According to the report, Twitter sold public data access in 2015 to Aleksandr Kogan, then…

  • Facebook CEO, EU official discuss privacy protection

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    Chief executive officer and founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and European Commission Vice President for the digital single market Andrus Ansip on Wednesday met and discussed issues bothering on privacy protection. The European Commission Vice President made this known on Wednesday tweeting about the meeting which also entails how to counter disinformation on the Internet,…

  • JUST IN: APC announces new official Internet platforms

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    Following reports by TheNewsGuru of the All Progressives Congress (APC) rejigging its Internet platforms, the ruling party has announced the launch of a newly-designed website and other official social media handles. The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Bolaji Abdullahi made this known on Sunday after the party recently acknowledged that it had no official…