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Are you having trouble with Snapchat’s chat feature? If your chats are suddenly not loading or are displaying strange glitches, there are a few things you can do to try and fix the problem. First, try restarting the app. If that doesn’t work, try uninstalling and reinstalling the app. You can also try clearing your […]

Without warning last Friday morning, hundreds of Chinese and Chinese American students were cut off from their primary means of communication with friends and family: Chinese social media apps supported

It’s no secret that Cuba has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades, but recent changes have begun to open up the country to outside communication and commerce. So does that mean that popular apps like Snapchat are now accessible in Cuba? Unfortunately, the answer is no. While some sites and […]

Nigeria Wednesday lifted the suspension of the Twitter operation in the country after reaching agreements. Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, who headed a Nigeria committee that interfaced with Twitter, said in a statement that Buhari approved the restoration of Twitter in a memo written to communications and digital economy, Prof Isa Ali Ibrahim. Twitter has since been […]

Meta Platform has said that Chinese-based networks were involved in elaborate online propaganda this year to promote claims of a fake Swiss biologist to spread disinformation on the origins of COVID-19. According to a report by Meta, the Facebook accounts connected to Chinese information campaigns had promoted the claims of a fake Swiss biologist called “Wilson Edwards”, who claimed that the US was meddling in efforts to find the origins of COVID-19.

It deleted 500 accounts which amplified claims that the US was meddling in the Covid origins search.

It deleted 500 accounts which amplified claims that the US was meddling in the Covid origins search.

Meta has dismantled an operation, orchestrated from China, which used an account of a fictitious Swiss biologist named Wilson Edwards to fuel tensions with the US.

Google's cybercrime fighting team Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has recorded a massive spike in government-backed phishing and malware attacks on private individuals.  TAG saw a jump of 33 per cent increase in cyber threats compared to the previous year (2020) and the team sent more than 50,000 warning to private individuals.