By AFP 11 October 2022 | 2:57 pm Russia on Tuesday added US tech giant Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, to a list of “terrorist and extremist” organisations, according to a database of the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring (Rosfinmonitoring). (FILES) In this file photo illustration taken on October 28, 2021, in Los Angeles, shows the Facebook like logo on a smartphone in front of a computer screen showing the parent company META logo. – Meta warned a million Facebook users on October 7, 2022 that they have been “exposed” to seemingly innocuous smartphone applications designed to steal passwords to the social network. So far this year, Meta has identified more than 400 “malicious” apps tailored for smartphones powered by Apple or Android software and available at the Apple and Google app stores, director of threat disruption David Agranovich said during a briefing. (Photo by Chris DELMAS / AFP) Russia on Tuesday added US tech giant Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, to a list of “terrorist and extremist” organisations, according to a database of the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring (Rosfinmonitoring). Russia in late March banned Facebook and Instagram for “carrying out extremist activities” after authorities accused Meta of tolerating “Russophobia” during Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine. Meta had announced on March 10 that the platforms would allow statements like “death to Russian invaders” but not credible threats against civilians, before saying the change only applied to users posting from inside Ukraine. Facebook and Instagram have been inaccessible in Russia since March, but many Russians resorted to VPN to keep using the social media network. Instagram is particularly popular in Russia and used to be a key platform for advertisement and sales. Billions of people use Meta’s app around the world. This decision puts Meta on the same list as right-wing nationalist groups and foreign terrorist organisations including the Taliban and Russian opposition groups. Latest 58 mins ago Kano State House of Assembly has passed the Kano State University of Science and Technology, Wudil (amendment (2) Bill, 2021. 1 hour ago Doyenne Circle is set to take its critically acclaimed stage musical, “Ada The Country” to Abuja this October. The musical which highlights the power of the Nigerian woman; her autonomy, resourcefulness and might, will come alive at the Musa Yar’adua Centre, Wuse, Abuja on 21st October at 6:00 pm and 22nd October at 3:00 pm… 1 hour ago The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Rivers on Tuesday paraded 16 suspected oil thieves involved in illegal refining of crude oil to produce diesel. 2 hours ago The Police in Adamawa said it arrested 45 suspected criminals for alleged kidnapping, culpable homicide and other crimes in September. 3 hours ago Two employees of the late gospel singer, Osinachi, on Tuesday told a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja that her husband, Peter Nwachukwu verbally and physically abused her.
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