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Not Twitter or Facebook, is Instagram the new safe space for political opinion in India?

While Facebook has over 26 crore users in India and Twitter has 77.5 lakh, Instagram is becoming the social media of choice for young Indians to express their views.

With ‘please unfriend me if you support BJP’, liberals have already lost the fight

No one is born woke, just like no one is born a bigot. And unfriending on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter is just virtue-signalling, it helps no one.

400 million social media users are set to lose their anonymity in India

New guidelines expected to be out this month will require Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and TikTok to reveal users' identities if govt agencies ask them to.

Twitter will label, remove ‘deepfake’ videos under new policy

In some cases, Twitter will label the video or photo so users know it has been doctored, but will let it remain on the social-media network.

Can’t use Facebook, post on Twitter — new social media rules for Navy after ‘spy ring bust’

The 85 apps banned/restricted for Indian Navy personnel include Facebook, Instagram, WeChat, Viber, Tumblr, Reddit and Truecaller.

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t care anymore if you like Facebook or not

Zuckerberg says it’s time for him to take sides. He will push for encryption and will defend Facebook’s advertising-based business model.

Facebook’s content oversight board may take months to decide on controversial user posts

Given the time element, the board will be more of a corrective solution to prevent a future Facebook issue, rather than a response team to quickly solve a current one.

Human rights activist Miranda Sissons may be the answer to Facebook’s digital hate woes

Facebook has been under constant fire from developing countries like India, Brazil and Myanmar over its lack of monitoring hate speech and fake news.

George Soros says Facebook is conspiring to re-elect Trump

Soros said there was an 'informal mutual assistance' between Donald Trump and Facebook though he didn't offer any evidence for his claim.

Facebook, Instagram to soon give users the option to see fewer political ads

Facebook, however, did not announce major changes or restrictions to the ad-targeting tools available to political campaigns, and will continue to not fact-check posts from politicians.

On Camera

Trump’s 28 points for Ukraine add up to a no-go at peace

Two questions are pertinent: Why does the Trump administration keep making the same mistakes on the peace proposal? And what does a hurried peace plan mean on the ground?

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Tejas fighter aircraft crashes at Dubai Air Show, IAF confirms pilot’s death

This is the second such incident after a Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas had crashed into a hostel on the outskirts of Jaisalmer in March last year.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.