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Saturday, January 3, 2026
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Topic: Social media

Angry protesting students call IAS Tina Dabi ‘reel star’. She says ‘non-issue created for a viral moment’

Dabi, who has often found herself at the centre of controversies owing to her popularity on social media, is an IAS of Rajasthan cadre. She is currently serving as Barmer collector.

Australia’s social media ban for teens kicks in today. What it means for the world

Children who are under 14 would be entirely blocked from ten major social media platform, and those above 14, will need parental consent documentation to create an account.

Sudha Murty flags child influencer trend, urges govt to regulate portrayal of kids on social media

The Rajya Sabha MP argued that this can in the long run affect a child's psychology. She cautioned against children being taken advantage of for money.

Need to clearly define ‘fake news’, revisit IT Act’s ‘safe harbour’ clause—parliamentary panel

Standing Committee on Communications and IT stresses that definition of fake news should maintain the 'delicate balance' between curbing false information and protecting freedom of speech.

After Australia’s social media ban, Singapore to curb students’ smartphone use during school hours

Malaysia, too, is planning to ban social media accounts for children under 16 to protect them from online harm.

X’s location feature: A political row over handles run from ‘Pakistan’, and a reliability catch

X users making 'pro-Congress, anti-govt' posts based out of Pakistan, Bangladesh etc, according to the platform's location data. BJP pounces, Congress says 'manufactured outrage'.

What is ‘Posting Zero’? The internet generation is growing tired of social media

Coined by The New Yorker’s Kyle Chayka in his weekly column Infinite scroll, Posting Zero refers to daily life updates by an average online user becoming rarer.

Meta to block Australian teens under 16 from Instagram, Facebook and Threads by 10 December

The company said it had begun notifying users it believed were between 13 and 15 years old that their accounts will be shut down through in-app messages, email and texts.

Is he the devil who will doom NYC or Spiderman who will save it? Zohran Mamdani memes top charts

Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, the newly elected mayor of New York City, has divided the internet, with memes and reels aplenty.

Doom-scrolling is a vice. Tax it like cigarettes

Smartphones, social media and the internet are transforming our lives and our culture in ways that are not all for the best. There is too much content, and the content is too cheap — in fact, it’s generally free.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.