Social media content creators, you’re up! Saftas introduce new online category
YouTube, Instagram and Facebook content creators will now also have the opportunity to receive recognition for their work.
New terms sparked criticism as users outside Europe who do not accept the new conditions before 8 February will be cut off from the messaging app.
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The social network last week suspended Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the aftermath the violent invasion of the US Capitol by a mob of his supporters.
Many of the app's users have raised concerns and questions about what the updated policy meant for their personal data with rumours circulating that the mobile application will be sharing the personal data of its users with its parent company, Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg said a one-day ban imposed on Donald Trump's accounts on Facebook and Instagram was extended because of Trump's "use of our platform to incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government".
Governments and users are belatedly coming to terms with the power held by the likes of Apple and Amazon, particularly in focus this year thanks to their role in everything from setting up video meetings to doing our shopping for us.
Many of Facebook's advertisers are small businesses, and it says it relies on user data to generate ads in ways that make them more relevant and likely to make money.
That means that the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy charter will no longer apply to the data.
The addition of a 'carts' feature lets people combine multiple items into a single ordered set via WhatsApp instead of tending to transactions separately, according to the service.
Communist Vietnam has long jailed its critics but has come under fire in recent years for targeting users on Facebook, a popular forum for activists in the country where all independent media is banned.
Police say they've received a number of complaints of a Facebook page that falsely advertised a livestock sale.
A petition signed by the contract workers living in various countries said Facebook should guarantee better conditions or allow the workers to continue their jobs from home.
Facebook product manager Rob Leathern announced late Wednesday that the social media giant would keep in place a ban on election ads for an unspecified period while awaiting the certification of the 3 November election result.
Efforts by Twitter and Facebook to balance letting political leaders speak to the people unfettered with enforcing rules about hateful and misleading posts have afforded Trump leeway not given to regular users.
Aiming to avoid problems that occurred in the 2016 campaign, Facebook, Twitter and Google-owned YouTube have all implemented policies aimed at heading off the spread of false information designed to sway the outcome of this year's poll.
Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook - summoned alongside Sundar Pichai of Google parent Alphabet - said proposed reforms could lead to more harmful and abusive content online, and would limit rather than expand free expression.
Out of the 51 ads identified, only one was removed by Facebook, which says it bans false ads.
This is the latest effort by the social network to prove it is a responsible player on the internet.