5 reasons why banning TikTok is not the answer

By Faisal Saeed ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 4 min read

TikTok app which was launched 3 years ago in China has now over 500 million users worldwide. For those who do not know, TikTok is…

FIA arrested three men accused of Rs. 4 million Facebook fraud

By Faisal Saeed ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The cyber crime wing of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested three men for allegedly looting 4 million rupees from another man through a…

Wait not again? Facebook admits it collected 1.5 million users’ contacts without consent

By Faisal Saeed ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Facebook has admitted that it uploaded up to 1.5 million users contact list without their consent. The social media giant earlier this month was asking…

Facebook to rival Apple and Google by introducing its own AI voice assistant for AR/VR products

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

With Google, Apple and Amazon having dominated the market for artificial intelligence-based voice assistants in the form of Google Assistant, Siri and Alexa, it makes…

Twitter to launch “hide replies” feature soon

By Faisal Saeed ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Twitter has recently announced that it is going to launch a “hide replies” feature in its platform this year in June. The microblogging site said…

Facebook Messenger’s Dark mode rolls out globally for everyone

By Faisal Saeed ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Messenger is getting dark and full of surprises. Facebook Messenger’s most hyped dark mode feature is now available for all users globally. The social media…

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Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are finally back after experiencing global outages

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

You know social media means a lot to us humans when related apps manage to make the headlines just because they failed to work for…

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Facebook using artificial intelligence to block one million accounts everyday

By Faisal Saeed ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Facebook is taking the help of artificial intelligence to block or remove one million accounts every day from its platform. The company is blocking those…

Facebook, Twitter response “not good” in addressing cyber crime complaints: FIA official

By Faisal Saeed ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has told the National Assembly’s standing committee on Information Technology and Telecommunication that Facebook and Twitter’s uncooperative response is making…

Social media executives may face jail if they fail to remove violent content quickly: Law approved

By Faisal Saeed ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Owners of social networks can face imprisonment for failing to take down violent content from their platforms, quickly. The Australian government has introduced new laws…

Data of over 500 million Facebook users stored in Amazon’s cloud servers exposed

By Faisal Saeed ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Facebook data of about 540 million users are exposed, containing passwords, account names, user IDs, comments and more. Researchers from a cyber-security firm named UpGaurd…

Pakistan’s first Facebook Innovation Lab launched at NIC LUMS

By Press Release ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Facebook and Pakistan’s Ministry of Information Technology along with the National Technology Fund (IGNITE) launched the first Facebook Innovation Lab located in the National Incubation…

Facebook kills 103 pages/accounts linked to Pakistani military employees

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

In its effort to curb “coordinated inauthentic behavior or spam” on its platform, the social networking giant, Facebook has removed 103 accounts, group, and pages…

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