Topic: WhatsApp
Brahmin pride and pain flood Facebook after Vikas Dubey’s encounter killing
For many social media users, gangster Vikas Dubey was first and foremost a Brahmin — a ‘tiger’ whose killing is just another ‘atrocity’ on the community under 'Thakur' CM Yogi Adityanath.
Ladakh Police summon people from Srinagar who received anti-Modi audio clip on WhatsApp
Clip featured Ladakh councillor & Srinagar Congressman berating PM Modi & the Army. Congress asks why those receiving WhatsApp forwards are being called in.
Stigma of fake news is locking WhatsApp out of India’s lucrative digital payments market
While Facebook Inc. deserves scrutiny for being a platform for hate speech and fake news, cashless transfers is one area where it can be a force for good.
Twitter, Facebook profited a lot from India’s hate agenda. Time to pull the plug with a law
French parliament now has a law mandating social media and tech firms such as Twitter, Facebook and Google remove hateful content within 24 hours of being flagged.
CCI ‘looking into’ antitrust complaint against WhatsApp payments service, says report
Report of a new complaint against WhatsApp payments service comes on the back of concerns about the app with regard to India’s data-localisation norms.
Zoom, Google Meet out of reach, it’s WhatsApp or no classes for poor students in Delhi
Students who attend govt & low-budget private schools struggle with online classes, while teachers say can't use data-heavy video apps for lack of resources from schools.
The American Karen is the Indian Suresh, the WhatsApp Uncle who thinks he knows best
Social media and memes have never been about nuance. Given the pandemic and the lockdown the world is struggling with, they have become something to cling to.
How a WhatsApp ‘Hi’ can transform India’s $1 trillion digital payments market
WhatsApp gives the Jio-Facebook deal a big edge in India’s fast-growing cashless payments market which is estimated to be worth $1 trillion by 2023.
WhatsApp doubles limit on group calls as world is using the platform ‘more than ever before’
WhatsApp said people globally have been spending over 15 billion minutes every day on both voice and video calls in the past several weeks.
Days after Facebook-Reliance deal, JioMart begins field testing in Mumbai
JioMart, an e-commerce venture of Reliance Retail, intends to deploy kirana stores as delivery points for groceries during lockdown.
Erdogan’s assault on Macron is the height of cynicism
There was a time when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan didn’t see the West as Turkey’s enemy and even wanted to join the European Union.
Turkey waging new war of economic liberation, says Erdogan after country’s currency falls
Erogan's speech follows the Turkish lira weakening to a record low of 8.3849 per dollar on Friday.
Defence
Here is why US changed Rajnath Singh’s statement on ‘reckless aggression’ by China
Both the US State and Defense departments have added footnotes to the transcripts they released on Rajnath Singh’s remarks at 2+2. The State Department has also updated the text.
5 reasons for the crisis in global Islam
If tens of crores of Muslims across the world feel they are victims of mass Islamophobia, their holy prophet shown deliberate disrespect, it is a sense of crisis and siege.