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Facebook wanted to buy Pegasus to spy on users, claims spyware company Israel spyware company NSO Group claims that Facebook tried to buy Pegasus from them.  The NSO group has also presented documents in court to confirm this. This Israel company came in the news about WhatsApp's famous espionage case.  Facebook-owned WhatsApp confirmed that 1400 users were spied using spyware named Pegasus on behalf of the Israeli cyber intelligence company NSO Group. Facebook also sued the NSO group in October for allowing its clients to spy on a total of 1,400 WhatsApp users, including journalists, diplomats and members of civil society from various locations, including India. The social media platform has alleged that it has spied 1,400 selected users globally, including 121 Indians. According to Motherboard Vice's report, the head of the NSO Group says that two representatives from Facebook approached the company to buy Pegasus, our spyware program.  The company wanted ...

Due to lockdown the effect on the WhatsApp status In the midst of lockdown in Coronavirus epidemic, WhatsApp is an entertainment medium.  But there has been an obstacle in this too.  Now there is going to be a cut in inserting the status video. Will not be able to put videos longer than 16 seconds. Facebook has written in its new tweet that "The video length will be reduced in the status update in WhatsApp. Till now you could upload 30 second video on WhatsApp." But now it is being reduced.  According to sources, now any user will be able to upload only 16 seconds of video in their WhatsApp status. Campaign against Chinese apps is also a reason A person associated with the case says that most WhatsApp users upload the videos of Chinese apps TikTok, Weibo and Vimate (VMate) in their status. In such a situation, there is branding of Chinese companies and all the traffic also goes there.  These Chinese companies have made their videos 30 seconds according ...

Facebook tests cross posting stories on Instagram Social media giant Facebook is testing a new feature that will allow Facebook Stories to be posted to Instagram Stories on Tuesday. Currently, Instagram Stories can be shared in Facebook Stories, but the reverse is not possible. The feature came as Facebook continued to integrate Instagram with the rest of its services. According to a Facebook spokesperson, the company is now formally testing the cross-posting feature to make it easier for a user to share moments with them, as people on Facebook vs. Instagram have different viewers and followers Can occur. Facebook will continue to explore options to simplify and improve how it works in its app. The new option will allow stories to be shared from one platform to another. The screenshot of the Facebook-to-Instagram cross-posting feature was posted by Jane Manchun Wong, who regularly discovers new social networking features prior to its release. The feature is acce...