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Monday, May 20, 2024
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Topic: Social media

Indian firms offer staff social media lessons as online bigotry threatens bottom lines

The reputational risks to companies of an increasingly polarised political and social discourse online are relatively new in India.

11 of family dead in Burari, 48 die in Uttarakhand bus crash, and 5 lynched in Maharashtra

Front Page There’s definitely something fishy about the death of 11 family members in Burari, Delhi, Sunday, with 10 of them found hanging and one lying...

How tech companies are successfully disrupting terrorist social media activity

The difficulty social media companies face is that if a terrorist group is blocked from one platform they get active in another one.

I’m not the one who changed: How one of Modi’s biggest champions turned critic

Rupa Subramanya says the space for independent voices such as her’s, who refuse to take partisan sides, is vanishing.

Airtel’s passive-aggressive, angst-ridden response misses the main point about bigotry

Airtel should know that in times like these, neutrality is a conscious choice of allowing tacit support to bigots.

Canadian cop poses with Khalistani flag on official vehicle, Twitter takes him on

Toronto Police confirmed the vehicle and the officer belong to Ontario’s Peel region. People on Twitter have called the move 'illegal'.

West Bengal plans new law to tackle fake news on social media

Plan for new legislation comes after incidents triggered by fake news in Meghalaya, Jharkhand & Assam.

Haryana IAS officer accuses boss of sexual harassment

The alleged perpetrator has denied the charges, saying the woman seemed to be ‘under some stress’ and was complaining because she had ‘willfully disobeyed’ his orders about attending meetings.

When the marginalised strike back: Lessons to learn from Shillong

Fake news, lack of decisive police action and breakdown of local institutions led to the Shillong incident. The city can ignore all this and its minorities at its peril

Social media might change the way we vote, but that day is still far

In case of Meghalaya, for example, social media could be a factor in urban constituencies as the younger generations are becoming more active users of social media, but not beyond.

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What’s geopolitical recession? World seems to be heading for one

The long-term rise of China and the 'Global South', combined with a decline of European and Japanese economic power is driving a fundamental shift.

With defence push, India looks to capture markets in Africa beyond western Indian Ocean

India’s defence sector is trying to penetrate the African market. But with China already extending significant influence, India must now play catch-up.      

Abki baar 90 paar for Congress? Why even 30 more seats will ruffle BJP

Discussion about outcome of Lok Sabha polls continues to boil in cauldron of expectations only from BJP. Now reverse this equation, what if we asked about the performance of the 'loser'?