WhatsApp

Security forces in Caracas are reportedly stopping civilians at checkpoints and ordering them to search their WhatsApp chats for the words "Trump," "Maduro" and "invasion," according to Venezuelan news outlet El Pitazo.

According to Meta, the group based in Italy, the group was founded in 2019, was dormant until May of this year.

For several migrants, the messaging app provides news about immigration raids in Washington neighborhoods -- often mixed with unverified or false information.

Over 1,400 Latino-led public WhatsApp groups spread political and war-related disinformation, reaching 3.4 million Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking U.S. users.

The Dominican artist caught the attention of press by leaking text messages between her and her ex-husband and father of her child, the Puerto Rican artist Anuel AA.

The messaging App is very popular among Latinos and has become one of their go-to channels for information

"We'll have to go back to the stone age but we will not use WhatsApp or TikTok", added senior official Diosdado Cabello

Mainland China has some of the world's most extensive internet censorship, with web users unable to access everything from Google to many foreign apps without workarounds such as a virtual private network (VPN).

Latinos also represent a significant portion of Snapchat usage

The widespread disruptions impacted users across different regions, highlighting the magnitude of the issue.

Senders will be able to modify their messages within 15 minutes of hitting send.

A teen girl allegedly killed herself after her friends removed her from a WhatsApp group.

Criminal cartels in Mexico are using social media to recruit U.S. citizens to assist with their smuggling operations at the southern border.

A Russian court fined the social media platform TikTok $50,000 on Tuesday after the app refused to remove LGBT content from its platform in accordance with an anti-LGBT Russian law.

A 20-year-old woman reportedly killed herself at her boyfriend's house after her former partner blocked her on WhatsApp in Dahisar, Mumbai, India on Sunday, May 15.

Police have arrested a Veterans Affairs employee in Florida accused of coercing a 12-year-old girl into sending him nude photos and subsequently circulating the explicit contents to her fellow students.

A Muslim woman has been sentenced to death by a Pakistani court for blasphemy after sharing caricatures of Prophet Muhammad on WhatsApp with a male friend.

The girl was found caught in the swing by her mother who stepped out to tell her to keep an eye out for their McDonald’s delivery.

Facebook went dark worldwide as the tech giant encountered problems with its domain that caused its services to blackout for more than six hours.

A 27-year-old man got at least 8 years of prison time for the punishment he did on his sister that led to the Form 3 teen's death.

A man with Nigerian descent has been charged after threatening his girlfriend and posting videos of having oral sex on WhatsApp and Instagram.

A predator pedophile who allegedly groomed a young boy for sexual abuse has been sentenced to 40 months in prison after the underage victim's mother discovered the sexual messages the man allegedly sent to her son’s phone.

The couple discussed and premeditated the abuse of the victim on two occasions. Police also found more indecent images of children on devices owned by the couple.

This update comes after several Microsoft users complained about being unable to create new WhatsApp accounts since earlier this year.

WhatsApp will upgrade its system that could potentially affect millions of users with older phones or older operating systems.

A new privacy setting has been rolled out for Android and iOS WhatsApp users wherein you can control who can add you to group chats without permission. 

The messages WhatsApp users deleted are not completely removed from the app. And this is seen as a problem just like how Apple’s iMessage is seen as a tool that can be used in invading an individual’s right to privacy.

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, has been summoned by an Iran judge to appear in court due to privacy issues over Whatsapp and Instagram.

Facebook has just announced it's buying messaging service WhatsApp for $16 billion.

Watch a preview of the new look and design that the WhatsApp update will have in the new iOS 7 compatible release.