Meta Deletes 756,000 Australian Teen Accounts Before a New Ban
Meta removed 756,000 Australian teen accounts from Instagram and Facebook before an under-16 ban starts. Here is what that number...
August 20, 2026Topic
Political persecution: conservative Brazilian Journalist Guilherme Fiuza is censored by Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube
Political persecution: conservative Brazilian Journalist Guilherme Fiu. Brazil media censorship coverage and expert analysis from The Rio Times.
January 4, 2023
Brazil 2022 elections: Instagram blocks live broadcast of president’s son Eduardo Bolsonaro
The Instagram profile of Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP) has been temporarily blocked from live broadcasts. When trying to start..
May 12, 2022
Brazil’s PROCON fines Meta almost US$2 million for service outage in October
US-based Meta in Brazil, responsible for the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp social networks, was fined US$1.9 million due to a...
December 7, 2021
Argentina and Mexico are Latin American countries with highest number of child cyberbullying cases
Argentina is among the two countries with the highest number of child cyberbullying crimes in Latin America
November 4, 2021
Instagram and Facebook will insert labels in posts about elections in Brazil
Facebook announced on Tuesday (26) that, starting in the coming weeks, it will insert labels in posts about elections with...
October 27, 2021
An indigenous community in Ecuador became cradle of YouTubers
In the indigenous community of Saraguro in southern Ecuador, young people have started to go "viral" through social networks
October 9, 2021
Dollar hits R$5.45 and closes at its highest since April
the dollar bounced back to R$5.45 and closed at its highest since the end of April. The stock market tumbled...
October 5, 2021
Twitter jokes after Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp crashed; brands react
On Monday afternoon, October 4, Twitter used its platform to joke about the crash of social media apps earlier in...
October 4, 2021