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Instagram users can now control their feed with Favourites, Following

Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram on Wednesday said it is introducing two new ways -- Favourites and Following -- to choose what users see in their feed

Twitter's iOS app lets Apple iPhone users record GIF through in-app camera

Micro-blogging site Twitter has announced a new feature that makes it easier for people to create and share their own GIFs

Zomato faces backlash on social media over 10- minute delivery plan

Online food delivery platform Zomato was on Tuesday forced to clarify over the road safety of its delivery partners as its plans to start instant 10-minute food delivery faced backlash on social media. Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal, who had on Monday announced the company's plans to start a pilot of 'Zomato Instant' with four stations in Gurugram from next month, took to social media to clarify that there are no penalties for late deliveries and no incentives for on-time deliveries for both 10-minute and 30-minute deliveries. The 10-minute delivery will be for specific nearby locations, popular and standardised menu only, he said in a series of tweets. He was responding to criticism directed to the company over its plans of starting instant deliveries as it would put the delivery partners at risk on the roads. In a post on Twitter, Congress Lok Sabha MP Karti P Chidambaram said, "This is absurd! It's going to put undue pressure on the delivery personnel, who are not employees & ..

Russia finds Meta guilty of 'extremist activity', says WhatsApp can stay

Russia banned Facebook for restricting access to Russian media while Instagram was blocked after Meta said it would allow social media users in Ukraine to post messages urging violence against Putin

Sonia calls for curbs on social media cos, says they are hacking democracy

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday said global social media companies are being abused to hack India's democracy

Meta Platforms slapped with $19 million fine for EU data law breaches

Meta Platforms was fined 17 million euros ($19 million) for violating the European Union's privacy rules by failing to prevent a series of data breaches on its Facebook platform in 2018

Twitter rolls back users access to chronological timeline by default

Twitter recently made an unnecessary change that made it difficult to see chronological feed by default, which gained criticism, but the firm has now announced that it would revert things to normal

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Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death calls on Facebook

The committee reports directly to President Vladimir Putin. It was not immediately clear what the consequences of the criminal case might be.

Twitter makes it difficult to see chronological feed, users annoyed

Twitter has made an unnecessary change that makes it difficult to see chronological feed by default, leaving millions of users frustrated.

Russia-Ukraine crisis: How social media helped stranded Indian students

A video of students stranded in the war-hit Ukrainian city of Sumy holding Indian flags and threatening to take up a journey to the Russian border on foot created an uproar in national and internation

Twitter introduces 'Creator Dashboard' tool to manage earnings on platform

Micro-blogging site Twitter has introduced a new tool for creators called the "Creator Dashboard" to analyze how they make money on the platform

Australia's social media anti-trolling bill raises alarm for tech giants

Tech giants like Meta, Twitter have decried Australia's proposed social media anti-trolling bill, stressing that it would put an unprecedented level of defamation risk on social media platforms

Snapchat turns off public heatmap as a safety precaution in Ukraine: Report

The Snap Map displays a colour code to show how many people are posting public images in an area. In practice, that means you can get a good idea of where Snapchat users are concentrated

Twitter may be adding a tab dedicated to podcasts, says report

Twitter began branching out to audio when it first launched Spaces in 2020 and dove even deeper into the medium with its acquisition of social podcast platform Breaker

Instagram brings automatic subtitles to videos in feed: Report

The addition should improve accessibility for deaf and hard-of-hearing users, who will have more choices for spoken-word video, reports Engadget

Meta purges 14.8 mn pieces of bad content in India in January

Meta (formerly Facebook) took down over 11.6 million pieces of content across 13 policies for Facebook and over 3.2 million pieces of content across 12 policies for Instagram in January

ShareChat will break even in a few years: Founder-CEO Ankush Sachdeva

In a Q&A, Sachdeva also dwells on his company's monetisation plan, and the strategy behind the $700 mn acquisition of short video platform MX TakaTak

How NFT Culture Has Taken Over Social Media with Accounts like NFT Fool

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Twitter rolls out ability to add content warnings to individual posts

Once you post the tweet with a warning, the image or video will appear blurred out, with a content warning explaining why you have flagged it.