As of Tuesday midafternoon (Nigerian time) Meta-owned social media platforms Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger were down. More than 500,000 users reported Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger outages starting around 10:08 a.m. EST to Down Detector. Reports spiked at 10:30 a.m. EST. (Down Detector is owned by ZiffDavis, Mashable’s parent company.) There were over 72,000 posts on Twitter / X […]
Meta Platforms Inc. experienced an outage this afternoon that made Facebook, Instagram and Threads inaccessible worldwide for about two hours. The first user reports of downtime started emerging around 10 a.m. EST. Meta confirmed the outage shortly thereafter, stating in a note on its status page that “we are aware of an issue impacting Facebook Login. Our […]
Facebook and Instagram are launching a new subscription service that will allow users to pay to become verified. Meta — the parent company of Facebook and Instagram — said it would begin testing “Meta Verified” in Australia and New Zealand this week, with other countries soon. The announcement came on Sunday via CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s […]
Facebook parent Meta has unveiled a high-end virtual reality headset with the hope people will soon be using it to work in the virtual reality of the still-elusive place called the metaverse Facebook parent Meta unveiled a high-end virtual reality headset Tuesday with the hope that people will soon be using it to work and […]
The Facebook Gaming app is being shut down. The Facebook Gaming team posted a message in the Facebook Gaming app alerting users and streamers that the app will no longer be available for iOS and Android beginning October 28. Although the Facebook Gaming app will be delisted from the Google Play Store and the Apple […]
Meta, the internet giant is being sued for trademark infringement by a 12-year-old VR startup with the same name. According to the firm, the misunderstanding brought on by Facebook’s rebranding has hurt its operations. A VR company called Meta is suing the tech giant formerly known as Facebook after it changed its name to Meta. […]
Last week, Facebook announced a rebranding in which they will be officially calling themselves “Meta” from now on. However, keep in mind that this is for Facebook’s parent company, and that the social media platform will continue to be called Facebook and other products like WhatsApp and Instagram will now be a subsidiary of Meta. That […]
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