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Friday, March 29, 2024
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Topic: Social media

400 million social media users are set to lose their anonymity in India

New guidelines expected to be out this month will require Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and TikTok to reveal users' identities if govt agencies ask them to.

No proposal to link social media profiles with Aadhaar, govt tells Lok Sabha

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said steps were being taken to curb spread of fake news and pornography through social media platforms.

Can’t use Facebook, post on Twitter — new social media rules for Navy after ‘spy ring bust’

The 85 apps banned/restricted for Indian Navy personnel include Facebook, Instagram, WeChat, Viber, Tumblr, Reddit and Truecaller.

What changed between SARS and coronavirus? Twitter, Skype, WhatsApp

With social media and bioRxiv, clinicians, virologists, bioinformaticians from around the world are coordinating their efforts to fight coronavirus.

This is how Kashmiris are using Facebook, Twitter despite Modi govt ban on social media

Central govt restored 2G mobile internet services on postpaid as well as prepaid phones in J&K last week. But social media sites remain blacklisted.

Nearly 18,000 Twitter accounts spread ‘fake news’ for BJP, 147 do it for Congress: Study

The study, which remains underway, has been conducted by a user of the social media portal Reddit who goes by the username ‘/u/onosmosis’.

Facebook’s content oversight board may take months to decide on controversial user posts

Given the time element, the board will be more of a corrective solution to prevent a future Facebook issue, rather than a response team to quickly solve a current one.

From Trump to Netanyahu to Modi’s MEA, Twiplomacy is the new diplomacy. And it’s working

Social media has become an indispensable arrow in the quiver of diplomacy. And Twitter has proven to be a soft power tool by providing a direct channel between diplomats and citizens.

Vigo — the Chinese social media app where India’s cows & newlyweds’ PDA are going viral

Chinese social media app Vigo has been in the news with the alleged disappearance of one of its Indian stars.

AAP as Avengers & ‘Thanos’ Modi — Kejriwal party gives Delhi poll campaign pop-culture spin

From video game Mario to Avengers, AAP is tapping several pop-culture mainstays for voters who no longer ‘want to be given gyan’.

On Camera

Oka to Nagarathna—Bombay High Court judges taking up the cudgel when faith in courts eroding

When lynching, hate speech and bulldozer politics do not speedily invite the wrath of courts, then something is wrong with the third pillar of governance.

Congress attacks chief economic advisor over statement on unemployment, asks BJP govt to ‘vacate seat’

While releasing 'India Employment Report 2024', V Anantha Nageswaran said govt can't solve 'all social, economic challenges'. Congress leader Kharge says CEA protecting 'dear leader'.

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.