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Tuesday, December 9, 2025
TopicSocial media

Topic: Social media

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.

Labelling AI content alone won’t solve misinformation. India needs smarter regulation

The new IT rules place the onus back on such social media companies, forcing them to become arbiters of online speech.

BJP turned social media into its biggest asset. Now it’s the Modi govt’s biggest liability

The Modi government appears unable to shake itself free of X. It is increasingly pandering to social media outrage, a silent enabler of the monster it has itself created. 

On Camera

From Binodini to Mitin—Bengali cinema scripting its comeback this Christmas

As Park Street now anticipates the Christmas lights, Bangla cinema eyes a harmony. Colliding heritage, devotion and some detective grit, the year-ender comes with a rediscovery.

Niti Aayog CEO has a message for power stakeholders. Buckle up for surge to feed EVs, data centres

Clean energy is “no longer the sideshow, it is the show”, BVR Subrahmanyam told the Odisha summit, warning India to lead the global shift or risk others’ tech dominance.

India looks to Oman for spare parts to keep its fleet of Jaguars flying

India is now the only country still operating the Jaguar, long retired by its original users, France in 2005 and the UK in 2007, and secondary operators like Oman, Nigeria and Ecuador.

Asim Munir & Pakistan’s Failed Marshal Doctrine

None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.