The parent company for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, Meta, has introduced paid verification for Facebook and Instagram. Dubbed Meta Verified, the subscription service lets you verify your account with a government ID, get a blue badge, get extra impersonation protection against accounts claiming to be...

Mark Zuckerberg has introduced community chats for Messenger and Facebook in a bid to help people build social connections in real time over shared interests, with this beginning to roll out across Africa. “Most people use feeds to discover content and use messaging for deeper...

Communities will also contain powerful new tools for admins, including announcement messages that are sent to everyone and control over which groups can be included.

The metaverse will feel like a hybrid of today’s online social experiences, sometimes expanded into three dimensions or projected into the physical world. It will let users share immersive experiences with other people even when they can’t be together — and do things together they couldn’t do in the physical world. It’s the next evolution in a long line of social technologies, and it’s ushering in a new chapter for the company. Mark shared more about this vision in a founder's letter.

With two separate hubs in Lagos Facebook, it seems, has settled on eating the African tech-lunch from West Africa.

Libra will dramatically cross border payments costs, and spur other innovations it hopes will upend global financial services.