Pakistan, January 07, 2024 : Internet services were disrupted across Pakistan as users reported difficulties accessing popular social media platforms, including X, Facebook and YouTube on Sunday, Internet Monitor Downdetector said. According to Downdetector, the social media platforms, especially the website versions have been down shortly after 5pm local time. Users in major cities such…
Karachi, March 19, 2021: Facebook published a newsroom post to announce changes that have been made to the way it recommends groups and will also be limiting the reach of those that break its rules. The new policies are part of a continued effort to clean up misinformation and harmful content, like hate speech and…
Karachi February 2021: Urdu Sarai, Pakistan’s leading literary platform run entirely at Facebook, organized the country’s first Facebook Book Festival, with hundreds and thousands of bibliophiles, book lovers, knowledge seekers and over 50 publishers from across the country participated in a virtual book festival held in the second week of February 2021. In the literary history…
Islamabad, December 14, 2020 : The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted life for many, including children in need of lifesaving, routine immunizations. In countries like Pakistan, additional roadblocks as a result of the pandemic have been compounded by an existing hesitancy in some communities to vaccinate children as well as global disruptions to the delivery of…
Karachi, December 05, 2020: On International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Facebook had collaborated with Family Educational Services Foundation’s (FESF) Deaf Reach, one of Pakistan’s only branch networks of schools catering to the needs of the community with hearing disabilities, to adapt Facebook’s We Think Digital online safety resources for hearing-impaired students within the Deaf…