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Text appeal: the SMS message is still a big hit across the generations as it celebrates its 30th birthday

Almost one in three Britons use the service to communicate every day, research finds

Wales Online

30 years of the text message – Nearly one in three still send them daily

New research shows that SMS messages remain popular despite a wide range of modern alternatives.

The Independent UK

Met Police pays damages to black brothers handcuffed and searched outside east London home

The Met decided to settle the case after one officer involved in the search was fired for sending discriminatory WhatsApp messages

Evening Standard

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Urgent WhatsApp warning issued to millions after phone numbers stolen by hackers

Users of the instant messaging service are being urged not to fall for phishing texts - after it was announced that cyber criminals have access to millions of phone numbers

Chronicle Live

Exclusive: Stanley Mills shares shock Everton WhatsApp that triggered Frank Lampard change

The teenager spoke to the ECHO about his remarkable rise from the academy to first team involvement and two overseas tours

Liverpool Echo

Meta fined €265m over data protection breach that hit more than 500m users

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp owner has been fined nearly €1bn by EU since September 2021

The Guardian - UK

Cuba's informal market finds new space on growing internet

Ever-widening access to the internet is offering a new opportunity for Cubans looking for hard-to-obtain basic goods: online shopping

The Independent UK

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Schoolboy fools dad into getting puppy by impersonating mum on WhatsApp

Kevyn Ley agreed to bring a puppy home in a text exchange - unaware it was son Noah he was talking to

Wales Online

Jonny Williams reveals truth behind leaked video of Wales celebrating England result

Jonny Williams was the cameraman of the footage of Wales players jubilantly celebrating England getting dumped out of Euro 2016 by Iceland - now he wants to pay the Three Lions back

Daily Mirror

As job cuts roil Silicon Valley, workers confront post-boom reality

When Ryan Stevens joined Meta Platforms Inc. as a product operations manager for WhatsApp in August of 2021, he was enticed by the opportunity to help shape a messaging app used daily by 2 billion people.

Tribune News Service

Man banned from WhatsApp and FB messenger and needs permission to get in cars

Curtis "Cocky" Warren has reportedly been released from prison after spending most of the past 25 years behind bars and is now free, but he has a strict list of rules to follow

Daily Mirror

Partygate hearings could be put back to new year after No 10 delay

‘Hefty chunk’ of documents handed over to committee last week, four months after request

The Guardian - UK

Transparency report: India made 55,497 requests for user data from Meta in the first half of 2022

In the first six months of 2022, the Indian government made the second-highest number of requests to Meta for user data , according to the tech giant’s transparency report for the first half of this year. Meta owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, among other products.

Newslaundry

Drug lord Curtis Warren dubbed UK's Pablo Escobar 'out of jail and wants to see mum'

Curtis “Cocky” Warren has reportedly been released from Whitemoor maximum security prison in Cambridgeshire after spending most of the past 25 years behind bars and has tough restrictions

Daily Mirror

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The Guardian - UK

You Don’t Know What War Is by Yeva Skalietska review – Ukrainian child’s poignant diary

This intimate and immediate account of a 12-year-old girl under siege in Kharkiv includes photos and WhatsApp texts to heart-rending effect

The Guardian - UK

Only 10 Met officers out of 412 investigated over alleged online abuse have been fired

Revelations that vast majority were instead given written warnings will raise fresh concerns about force

Daily Mirror

Mum worried she'll be 'outcast' if she doesn't invite daughter's whole class to party

A woman was left concerned after realising that other children in her daughter's class at school had invited the whole class to birthday parties - but she said it would cost around £500

The Times of India

Mumbai: Andheri homemaker duped of Rs 12 lakh by cyber fraudster who gained illegal access to her bank accounts

MUMBAI: A homemaker lost nearly Rs 12 lakh to a cyberfraudster who posed as a bank employee and convinced her to download an app that gave him remote access to her phone screen in Mumbai's Andheri.

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The Times of India

Accused in Delhi excise 'scam' deleted WhatsApp chats, used VoIP to communicate: ED

NEW DELHI: Documentary evidence available with agencies, probing the alleged irregularities and bribes in the scrapped Delhi excise policy, is "scanty" as the accused communicated over VoIP and messenger service Signal while some WhatsApp chats were deleted, the ED informed a local court Saturday.

The Conversation

Social media campaigns can be effective -- if offline action is also taken. A case study from Ghana

Ghana has about six million social media users out of a population of 31 million. WhatsApp, Facebook and YouTube are the three dominant social media platforms, while Instagram and Twitter are gradually gaining popularity.

Businessweek

Meta Confronts an Apple-Sized Hole in Its Once-Mighty Advertising Business

The social media company must deal with a range of headwinds, but a year later, the hit to its ad targeting capabilities has been particularly painful.

Liverpool Echo

WhatsApp chats can be password protected - and this is how to do it

Learn how you can keep your conversations protected and secure

Newslaundry

WhatsApp head, public policy director in India quit as Meta churn continues

Days after Ajit Mohan, the vice president and managing director of Meta India, announced his departure from the company, Meta India has confirmed the resignations of two other senior executives. Abhijit “Bobby” Bose, the head of WhatsApp India, and Rajiv Aggarwal, the public policy director of Meta India, have resigned…

The Independent UK

Lucy Letby: Inside the neonatal unit of hospital where nurse is accused of killing babies

The nurse allegedly told a colleague the death of a newborn on her night shift ‘could have happened to any baby’

Daily Mirror

Boy, 9, hilariously tricks dad into buying puppy by pretending to be mum on WhatsApp

Nine-year-old Noah Ley was so desperate to get a puppy that he took his mum's phone and persuaded his oblivious dad to bring one home - even calling him 'hun' and 'love' just like she would

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