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Meanwhile, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, said Sunday night it shut down hacking campaigns targeting users in Ukraine.

Facebook''s parent Meta has called for a global collaborative effort to build the infrastructure required for its growing metaverse ambitions.

Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, has appointed Rick Kelley as head of Meta’s operations in Ireland. Mr Kelley, a Bostonian who is settled in Dublin, will be the first American to lead Meta Ireland.

The accounts were conducting a campaign of misinformation, pushing content supporting Russian activities and painting Ukraine as a failed state, according to a Meta statement.

Facebook'' s parent company Meta said it has uncovered disinformation and hacking campaigns targeting Ukrainians amid Russia''s invasion of their country.

Russian regulator slows down access to Twitter across country amidst spat with Facebook over fact-checking and labelling of Russian media posts

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Meta Platforms said a hacking group used Facebook to target a handful of public figures in Ukraine, including prominent military officials, politicians and a journalist, amid Russia''s ongoing invasion of the country.

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s defense industry conglomerate says the world’s largest plane that was in regular operation was heavily damaged in fighting with Russian troops at the airport outside Kyiv where it was parked.The Ukroboronprom company said in a statement that the Antonov-225 was “destroyed” but would be repaired. The An-225, which is operated by Ukroboronprom’s subsidiary Antonov Airlines, is used to move exceptionally large cargos. Its arrivals and departures at overseas airports often attract aviation buffs to observe the lumbering plane with a 290-foot (84-meter) wingspan.Only two planes have been built with larger wingspans — the Stratolaunch and the Hughes “Spruce Goose” — but each was used only for a single flight.___MOSCOW — The Russian military says that residents of the Ukrainian capital can use a safe corridor to leave the city if they want.Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Monday that Kyiv residents can safely use a highway leading to Vasylkiv just southwest of the Ukrainian capital.

Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) found and disabled a disinformation network that operated accounts, groups and pages targeting Ukraine across its social networks, the company said late Sunday.

Meta says it has removed a network of fake accounts, groups and pages across Facebook and Instagram that operated from Russia and Ukraine

Japan’s Rakuten Group said it is removing advertising from its Viber messaging service in Ukraine and Russia in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, but said it won’t block the service in Russia as requested by Kyiv. The move is to “ensure that no-one will profit from activity on our app at this time” Rakuten said in a statement dated Sunday, adding that it has made “Viber Out” calls to landlines and mobile phones in 34 countries free for users in the region. The move comes amid escalating global tensions as President Vladimir Putin put Russia’s nuclear deterrent on high alert on Sunday in the face of a barrage of Western reprisals for his war on Ukraine. Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a “special operation”. Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov asked Rakuten to block Viber service in Russia in a letter posted on Twitter, along with similar requests to companies such as Facebook-owner Meta Platforms FB.O. “Blocking our service in Russia or any other country will harm the people of Ukraine by preventing free, private and secure communication,” Rakuten said in the statement, attributed to its chief operating officer Ken Hyakuno.

Meta Platforms said a hacking group used Facebook to target a handful of public figures in Ukraine, including prominent military officials, politicians, and a journalist, amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of the country. Meta said in the last 48 hours it had also separately removed a network of about 40 fake accounts, groups and pages across Facebook and Instagram that operated from Russia and Ukraine targeting people in Ukraine, for violating its rules against coordinated inauthentic behavior. A Twitter spokesperson said it had also suspended more than a dozen accounts and blocked the sharing of several links for violating its rules against platform manipulation and spam. It said its ongoing investigation indicated the accounts originated in Russia and were attempting to disrupt the public conversation around the conflict in Ukraine. In a blog post on Monday February 28, Meta attributed the hacking efforts to a group known as Ghostwriter, which it said successfully gained access to the targets’ social media accounts.

Company also identified a number of public figures whose accounts were compromised by a known threat actor

Meta Platforms FB.O said a hacking group used Facebook to target a handful of public figures in Ukraine, including prominent military officials, politicians and a journalist, amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of the country. Meta said in the last 48 hours it had also separately removed a network of about 40…