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World
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International
2/1/2025 8:35:46 PM
Meta-owned WhatsApp announced it has disrupted a spyware operation by surveillance firm Paragon Solutions that targeted approximately 90 users, including journalists and civil society members, through malicious PDF files sent in group chats.
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Egypt
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Society
12/24/2024 10:01:08 PM
WhatsApp, a key player in Egypt's communication and e-commerce sectors, will start the new year by discontinuing support for Android devices running Android KitKat (version 4.4) or older, impacting phones over 10 years old.
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World
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Region
12/24/2024 5:22:51 PM
Iran's top council responsible for safeguarding the internet voted Tuesday to lift a ban on the popular messaging application WhatsApp, which has been subject to restrictions for over two years, state media reported.
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World
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Region
10/31/2024 2:13:15 PM
The family WhatsApp group chat buzzed with constant messages. Israel was escalating its airstrikes on villages and towns in southern Lebanon. Everyone was glued to the news.
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Business
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Tech
7/20/2024 9:02:38 PM
Nigeria is fining Facebook and WhatsApp parent company Meta $220 million for "multiple and repeated" data violations.
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Egypt
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Society
3/14/2024 1:00:35 PM
Meta's Facebook pages dominate Egypt's e-commerce, commanding 61.7 percent, followed by WhatsApp groups at 31.8 percent, according to the March quarterly report of the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT).
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World
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Region
8/16/2023 10:35:41 AM
For desperate Syrians, a WhatsApp message saying "I want to go to Europe" can be all they need to start a treacherous journey to Libya and then across the Mediterranean.
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Business
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Tech
7/25/2023 9:22:02 PM
META launched WhatsApp’s latest Channels feature in Egypt and other six countries worldwide on Tuesday.
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Business
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Tech
6/8/2023 10:42:57 AM
WhatsApp on Thursday began letting select organizations try a new feature called "Channels" that lets them broadcast to followers on the popular, Meta-owned messaging service.
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World
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International
1/19/2023 4:01:15 PM
Social media giant Meta has been fined an additional 5.5 million euros ($5.9 million) for breaches of EU data protection regulations by its instant messaging platform WhatsApp, Ireland's regulator announced Thursday.
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Business
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Tech
10/25/2022 12:00:01 PM
WhatsApp messaging app came back online around 11 a.m. Egypt local time (GMT +2) after suffering a global disruption for a little over two hours.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Entre nous
3/29/2022 8:23:09 PM
During the month of Ramadan, time is at a premium. So, try to minimise the use of social media like WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram and steer clear of video games.
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Business
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Tech
10/5/2021 10:32:54 PM
The six-hour outage at Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp was a headache for many casual users but far more serious for the millions of people worldwide who rely on the social media sites to run their businesses or communicate with relatives, fellow parents, teachers or neighbors.
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Business
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Tech
10/5/2021 3:53:59 PM
Hundreds of millions of people were unable to access Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp for more than six hours on Monday, underscoring the world's reliance on platforms owned by the Silicon Valley giant.
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Business
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Tech
10/4/2021 6:39:16 PM
Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were hit by a massive outage Monday, impacting potentially tens of millions of people as users flocked to other networks to sound off.
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World
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International
2/4/2021 10:43:08 AM
Opposition to the junta has emerged very strongly on Facebook, which is the country’s main internet platform and underpins communications for business and government. Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging was also blocked
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
1/19/2021 11:13:07 PM
The popular chat application WhatsApp has postponed the implementation of new privacy policies after facing mass complaints worldwide
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Egypt
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Politics
1/19/2021 9:58:04 PM
According to the authorities, the baker stated that she made the pastries as per the request of the members, who sent her the designs via WhatsApp
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World
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Africa
1/12/2021 4:03:56 PM
Users complained on Tuesday that they were unable to access Facebook and WhatsApp, social media platforms being widely used for campaigning by all sides
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World
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International
1/11/2021 2:24:29 PM
WhatsApp updated its terms of service last Wednesday, allowing Facebook and its subsidiaries to collect user data. The deadline for agreeing to the new terms is Feb. 8
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