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Wednesday, April 8, 2026
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No platform’s ever lost safe harbour despite cases of delayed compliance with takedown notices—House panel

Panel also sharply rebuked MHA say its responses to several questions on fast-track courts, prosecution data & a unified cybercrime law were delayed, deflected or curtly dismissed.

Bumble scammer arrested by Delhi Police had private videos of 64 women on his phone—charge sheet

Delhi Police have filed a charge sheet against Tushar Singh Bisht (23), a technical recruiter in a Noida-based company, accused of posing as a Brazilian & blackmailing nearly 500 women.

Australia seeks to set minimum age for social media use

The Online Safety Amendment Bill 2024 places the onus on social media companies to prevent those below 16 years of age from accessing their platforms.

Snapchat was the biggest winner the day Facebook, WhatsApp went down

Facebook blamed network configuration glitches for immobilising a suite of apps from Messenger to Instagram and driving some of its 2.7 billion daily users to the competition.

Snapchat permanently bans Donald Trump ‘in the interest of public safety’

Snapchat said it has made the decision to permanently terminate Trump's account 'based on his attempts to spread misinformation, hate speech, and incite violence'.

Snapchat stops promoting US President Trump’s content on its ‘discover’ feed

In a statement, Snapchat said that they will not amplify voices that incite racial violence and injustice by giving them free promotion on their 'discover' section.

Bashed Bois Locker Room, silent on Snapchat controversy. Women, where is your outrage now?

Women criticising Bois Locker Room must also talk about the Snapchat conversation where a girl, posing as a boy, suggested a plan of sexual assault on herself.

A ‘girl’ started rape talk on Snapchat. Bois Locker Room on Insta had no link: Police

Police officer says girl, posing as 'Siddharth' on Snapchat, suggested sexual assault on herself to a male friend, just to gauge his reaction and 'character'.

More than Netflix it’s Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat that are uniting a quarantined world

Social media is a place for wholesale interaction, whether it be through memes, amateur TikTok dances, silly Snapchat snaps or Instagram boomerangs.

Twitter testing ‘fleets’: exciting feature or late to the trend after Snapchat, Instagram?

Twitter’s new feature ‘Fleets’, which is currently being tested, will see tweets vanish after 24 hours without getting any retweets, likes or replies

On Camera

Rahul Gandhi wants to jail Himanta Sarma but Congress has a Bihar-sized problem in Assam

The Congress has promised Rs 50,000 assistance to each woman but as we've seen in many recent elections, voters seem to be conscious of the proverb: 'A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.'

Stocks fall, oil prices climb as Trump issues fresh threat to Iran ahead of his deadline

Fears that an escalation of the conflict could heighten a fuel squeeze & endanger the economy unnerved traders, with NYT reporting Iran stopped negotiating a truce with the US.

UAE walks away from financing Rafale F5 due to restricted access to technology, reports French media

French newspaper La Tribune earlier last week indicated that UAE withdrew from deal to fund EUR 3.5 billion. India is looking to order 114 new Rafales, which could include the F5.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.