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The company will charge Sh0.52 for every delivered message sent through WhatsApp Business, with the new fee taking effect on October 1. The charge is equivalent to $0.0040 per message and will apply to utility messages sent by businesses while the 24-hour customer service window is still open.
The trial is expected to last between four and six weeks, with Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg expected to testify
The European Commission said it had stepped up coordination with Meta and TikTok, working alongside European police force Europol and creating a system to improve cooperation between the technology companies and local fact-checking organisations.
The new model, Muse Glimmer, is much smaller than leading AI models from rivals and is instead designed for agentic tasks and can run on a Mac or PC with a single graphics card, aiming to tap demand for AI systems that run directly on people's devices.
The ruling marks the biggest financial penalty Meta has faced over child safety and is also believed to be the first time a social media company has been declared a public nuisance by a court.
According to observations from users across the country, reports of the outage began rising sharply from around 10:45 a.m. on Sunday.
Meta says it logged a milestone quarter with more than 3.5 billion people using its apps daily. It links gains in Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp to new AI models, while citing user declines tied to outages in Iran and Russia restrictions.
Speaking on Radio Generation on Thursday, Mutemi said the challenges go beyond individual companies, pointing to a wider system that exposes workers to poor conditions, mental health risks, and weak protections, even as global demand for AI-related work continues to rise.
Sama describes itself as a global leader in data annotation, focusing on computer vision work that supports artificial intelligence and machine learning systems. Its Nairobi centre has been a key part of Kenya’s position as a hub for digital outsourcing.
It is the first time parent company Meta will proactively alert parents to searches by their child on Instagram for harmful material, rather than block searches and direct users to external help.
The inquiry follows a complaint by AdLegal International, a Ugandan non-profit, which claims Meta changed the WhatsApp Business Solution Terms in October 2025 to block independent AI providers from accessing tools required to integrate their chatbots with the app.
In December, a new law began requiring that the world's most popular social media sites, including Instagram and Facebook, stop Australians aged under 16 from having accounts on their platforms.