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Several tech brands besides Facebook and Google are tracking us

Facebook and Google would be able to buy data from other ad market players even if they were banned from gathering information about users’ browsing.

New Facebook rules will end job, housing ads that discriminate by age, gender, pin code

The rules are aimed at settling a string of lawsuits that allege Facebook enables bias in housing, credit and employment.

Facebook, Twitter, Tik Tok to have separate link detailing expenditure on poll ads

The social media giants are part of 6 firms, along with WhatsApp, Google & Sharechat, that agreed to make political ad spending public.

Terrorism needs an audience. Facebook gave Christchurch shooter more than he asked for

The purpose of some terrorists’ actions is to draw attention to their political cause and enlist new followers. This is where the media comes in.

Facebook apologises to social media activist Dhruv Rathee for account ban over Hitler post

Social media giant Facebook acknowledges error over action on a post that came on the back of the New Zealand terror attack. 

Facebook’s bad week gets worse with live-streaming of mass shooting

Apart from the live-streaming, Mark Zuckerberg's week of gloom included executives quitting and Facebook's longest global outage which resulted in a share drop of 2.5%.

Facebook’s policy shift is less about privacy and more about profits

Users are already moving from open-sharing on Facebook to closed groups on WhatsApp. Mark Zuckerberg is merely preparing to shift resources to follow them.

Facebook & YouTube blindsided by live video of massacre in New Zealand mosques

At least 40 people were killed in mass shooting in two mosques in New Zealand's Christchurch. 

Twitter unveils Snapchat-like camera feature as it experiments with change

Microblogging site Twitter, which has usually been slow to change, is opening up to experimentation and new products to persuade more people to join the service.

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram outage persists globally after more than 10 hours

Users of the Mark Zukerberg-headed social media giant and its family of platforms have been facing issues with logging in, posting and sending images or were being shown error messages.

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.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.