Social Media

China’s entertainment giant TikTok is set to invest US$1.5 billion to secure a controlling stake in Tokopedia, the e-commerce arm of Indonesia’s GoTo Group.

Meta has officially begun to roll out support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in Messenger for personal calls and one-to-one personal messages.

TikTok launching a chatbot development system, which gives users the ability to create their own, custom AI bots that can respond to text queries in-stream.

The privacy rights group NOYB has filed a GDPR complaint against Meta with Austria’s data protection authority over this option.

Instagram was today updated with a number of improvements that are designed to give users more ways to edit their content before sharing it.

The Nepal government has taken a decisive step to impose a ban on TikTok concerns over the app’s adverse impact on social harmony.

Meta decided to use the same credentials as Instagram so that users wouldn’t have to create another account to use its new microblogging platform.

Instagram testing new ways to respond to inbox Notes, users in the test pool now able to reply to Notes with audio clips, photos, videos, GIFs, and stickers.

TikTok text posts like Iinstagram stories include various features such as the ability to add sounds, background colors, stickers, and tags or hashtags.

Meta policy to promote transparency in political and social issue advertising with regards to AI-altered or digitally manipulated content in political ads.