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Court orders release of one of four detained for attack on CFK

01-11-2022 13:20 Appeals court in Buenos Aires orders release of 21-year-old Agustina Díaz due to a lack of evidence to indict her; Leader of ‘los copitos’ gang Gabriel Carrizo to be remanded in custody under pre-trial detention.

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Argentina fines Facebook for abusive privacy terms in WhatsApp

07-01-2022 01:35 Government fines Facebook for abusive clauses in the privacy policy terms of messaging service WhatsApp.

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Why did Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp shut down?

05-10-2021 09:11 Hundreds of millions of people were unable to access Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp for more than six hours on Monday, underscoring the world's reliance on platforms owned by the Silicon Valley giant. But what actually caused the outage?

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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by widespread outage

04-10-2021 20:55 Facebook battled duelling crises on Monday as it faced a large-scale outage of its dominant social network for seven hours, and fought against a whistleblower's damning revelations.

POST-PASO FALLOUT

CFK ally describes president as ‘squatter’ in leaked WhatsApp audio

16-09-2021 18:00 Outgoing national deputy Fernanda Vallejos (Frente de Todos-Buenos Aires Province) poured fuel on the flames of the ruling coalition’s post-PASO crisis this week with strident criticism of President Alberto Fernández.

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Facebook wins US antitrust dismissal, surges to US$1-trillion value

28-06-2021 19:23 A judge of the of the US District Court dismissed cases filed in December by the Federal Trade Commission and more than 40 states, which could have impeded Facebook's acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp.