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Chennai, SRM College set to host Elon Musk's chosen man Sriram Krishnan

Krishnan, who is also a former Twitter employee, is expected to guide Musk in his ambitious plan to monetise the social media giant

Musk sets up A team to rejig Twitter, seeks to change verification process

According to a report from The Verge, he has asked employees to change Twitter Blue, a monthly subscription service costing $4.99 to a much more expensive new subscription

Instagram down for several users, days after global WhatsApp outage

According to outage-tracking website Downdetector, at the peak of the outage, over 7,000 users reported being unable to log in

Twitter, Facebook, other social media cos will have to abide by local laws

The new amendments to IT rules impose a legal obligation on social media companies to take all out efforts to prevent barred content and misinformation, the government said on Saturday making it clear that platforms such as Twitter and Facebook operating in India will have to abide by local laws and constitutional rights of Indian users. The new rules provide for setting up appellate committees which can overrule decisions of the big tech firms on takedown or blocking requests. The hardening of stance against the big tech companies comes at a time when discontent has been brewing over alleged arbitrary acts of social media platforms on flagged content, or not responding fast enough to grievances. Amid concerns over the rising clout of Big Tech globally, the CEO of electric car maker Tesla Inc, Elon Musk, on Friday completed his USD 44-billion takeover of Twitter, placing the world's richest man at the helm of one of the most influential social media apps in the world. Incidentally,

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Elon Musk to form a council to advise on lifting any Twitter bans

Musk, whose $44 billion deal to take the social network private was completed Thursday, had indicated previously that he thought Twitter's content moderation standards were too strict

Musk takes a $10 bn hit to his net worth after finalising Twitter deal

The $10 billion hit to Musk's fortune brings his total losses this year to $66 billion, according to the Bloomberg wealth index

Appellate panels to be set up for resolving social media users' grievances

The government on Friday tweaked IT rules to pave way for setting up of grievance appellate panels, which will settle issues that users may have against the way social media platforms initially addressed their complaints regarding content and other matters. These committees will be able to review content moderation decisions by social media companies like Meta and Twitter. The 'Grievance Appellate Committees' will be set up within three months, according to a gazette notification on Friday. Incidentally, the move comes at a time when the CEO of electric car maker Tesla Inc, Elon Musk, has completed his USD 44-billion takeover of Twitter, placing the world's richest man at the helm of one of most influential social media apps in the world. The IT rules changes have been in the works for months, though, ever since users red-flagged instances of digital platforms acting arbitrarily. The latest move will arm the users with a grievance appeal mechanism in the form of appellate committee

Telegram to organise existing username auctions on TON blockchain

Each handle that is placed up for bid will have an additional hour for final bidding and will end in a week

Snapchat lowers payout for Spotlight creators for the second time

Recently, the company had reported that its revenue grew 6 per cent year-over-year (YoY) to $1,128 million in the third quarter of 2022

Instagram users report problems with server connection, logging in

50 per cent users said they were facing issues with logging in, while 33 per cent reported issues with server connection and another 17 percent have issues with app

Facebook announces 2022 Community Accelerator participants in India

Four-month programme provides selected community leaders of Facebook groups with training, mentorship and funding

Meta's Instagram reaches 2 billion users, closing in on Facebook

The company disclosed the number during an otherwise-gloomy earnings report Wednesday, when a shaky ad market clouded Meta's forecast and sent its shares tumbling

Meta slams Apple for 'undercutting others' with change in App Store terms

Apple's policy change, disclosed this week, requires users and advertisers to make an in-app purchase when they pay to "boost" posts in apps like TikTok and Meta's Instagram

WhatsApp is back: Services restored after 2 hours of global outage

According to Downdetector website nearly 29,000 reports were flagged by users on the WhatsApp outage

Snapchat gives story expiration controls to premium members, other features

Popular social media platform Snapchat has rolled out several new features, including "Custom Story Expiration", that will allow premium subscribers to control when their stories expire

Meta-owned Facebook introduces new features, including Reels for Groups

Facebook has announced that it is rolling out more options for people to connect over shared interests, including Reels in Facebook Groups and updates to Group profiles

Discord launches YouTube integration with 'nitro basic' subscription

Nitro Basic will be available from October 20 for $2.99 per month in the US. Meanwhile, users living outside the US will be able to see the price once it's rolled out

WhatsApp tests edit message feature ahead of final release: Details here

WhatsApp is working on a number of updates and improvements to enhance user experience and security on the platform, including an option to edit sent messages

Govt not empowered to issue orders to block accounts: Twitter to HC

Council for microblogging site emphasises that Section 69A (power to intercept electronic communication) of IT Act does not spell out mass blocking of accounts