What was planned to be mandatory became voluntary, thanks to the intervention by tech giant NEW DELHI — Prior to the commencement of 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the Election Commission of India planned to enforce strict rules to regulate social media that was seen to...
A non-profit social enterprise reveals existence of coordinated efforts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to link the protest with Khalistan movement Waquar Hasan NEW DELHI – An investigative report has revealed that coordinated efforts were made on social media...
United Against Hate, Students Islamic Organisation and All India Students Association call his incarceration “unust” NEW DELHI – Anti-CAA activist and student leader Meeran Haider completed 600 days of incarceration. To mark the occasion groups of activists and...
By Moin Qazi The COVID-19 pandemic has put medical doctors through one of the most grueling tests of all time. They are on the front lines of the battle to save human lives and are putting up a truly brave fight. Yet beyond the battle lines, in the confines of...
By Syed Ali Mujtaba Indian Muslims always get a bad press and the blame is put on the community for not doing anything spectacular that may give them positive coverage. This is a hackneyed narrative that is going on since independence where the largest minority of the...
With crores of people in India already using TikTok and all of them having the option to share the app with others, blocking its access on Google Play Store and Apple App Store may not produce the desired results, experts have warned. TikTok, which is very popular...
New Delhi/Mumbai: Ending all speculation, famed Bollywood actress Urmila Matondkar joined the Congress in the national capital on Wednesday afternoon. Matondkar, 45, who shot to fame as a child star in "Masoom" (1983), is likely to be named the Congress candidate for...
In a bid to avoid discrimination in ads related to housing, jobs and credits, Facebook has announced new changes where anyone who wants to run such ads will no longer be allowed to target by age, gender or zip code. These changes are the result of settlement...
New York : More than 50 engineers at Facebook are reportedly busy giving shape to the social media giant's own cryptocurrency and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is quite bullish on the project. Not only Facebook, highly-encrypted mobile communications apps Telegram and Signal...
London : As the European Parliament election inch closer, the European Commission has claimed Facebook is withholding key data on its efforts towards how the platform is rooting out the spread of poll-related disinformation. According to a report in The Guardian on...