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Thursday, August 14, 2025
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Topic: Facebook

Meta’s new safety measures to prevent spread of non-consensual intimate images

Meta has introduced StopNCII.org for users in India, which is used to stop non-consensual intimate images from being shared on Facebook and Instagram.

Meta removes 500 Facebook accounts of China-based network pushing Covid misinformation

Campaign involved fake persona of a Swiss biologist, who in July posted on Facebook and Twitter that US was pressuring WHO scientists to blame the coronavirus on China.

Viral video alleging ‘Kejriwal is turning Delhi govt schools into madrasas’ is from Ghaziabad

Video shows group of Muslims including kids offering namaaz in a govt school, when police show up and start asking questions, individuals barge in and make hateful comments.

Don’t fear crypto or digital currencies, let India’s young ride the online services boom

The post-Covid world is witnessing an explosion of the global digital services sector. This time it’s not just about software engineers. An increasing number of...

Parliamentary panel recommends new regulator to oversee Facebook, Twitter

The high-level committee is asking for tighter rules because current laws treating social media platforms as intermediaries have not done enough in terms of regulation.

Delhi Assembly panel grills Facebook over Feb 2020 riots, it ‘exercises right not to respond’

The panel said it was 'worrying' that Facebook had no India-specific definition of what it categorises as hate speech.

Facebook rebranding itself as Meta does not take away its disregard for teens’ mental health

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

SubscriberWrites: Facebook controversy of 2021 is a throwback to the Big Tobacco fiasco of the 90s

Subscribers write back with their views on the most urgent issues of the day.

Facebook is shutting down facial recognition system over privacy concerns

The social media giant has been using facial recognition since 2010 to encourage people to tag friends, family members or alert people in photos and videos that they’re in.

Facebook doesn’t need to change its name, it should change its algorithms

The metaverse is still very much an idea for the future, and Facebook is trying to use it to put out a forest fire in the present.

On Camera

Trump is swinging on Russia again. What this means for Europe’s security architecture

The dynamics between Europe and Russia have gone so south that mending fences looks like an uphill task—even as the US swings between sanctions and olive branches.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

President awards 1st set of Sarvottam Yudh Seva medals since Kargil, 7 honoured for leading Op Sindoor

This year, the Indian Air Force received four of the seven awards, followed by the Indian Army with two medals, and the Indian Navy with one. 

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.