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Meta executive pitches metaverse business to advertisers

The company's head of metaverse, Vishal Shah, cited opportunities for brands around digital goods and immersive shopping

Early Facebook investor Peter Thiel to step down from Meta board

Thiel reportedly aims to spend time helping elect candidates who he believes will advance former President Donald Trump's agenda in the U.S. midterms, the Congressional elections this year

Twitter to let you send Direct Message straight from a tweet

Twitter feels the feature will make it easier to start a conversation from your timeline.

Govt willing to intoduce stricter social media norms: IT Minister

IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that the Narendra Modi-led government is willing to introduce stricter social media norms and all micro-blogging sites

Twitter testing new feature to allow users to post longer messages

Jane Manchun Wong, known for finding experimental features within apps, discovered the existence of a 'Twitter Articles' tab, reports Engadget

Shifting central banks, Facebook status update restart selloff

By Marc Jones

Facebook loses daily users for first time ever, ad growth slows

The Meta-owned Facebook platform registered 1.929 billion daily users in the fourth quarter of 2021 -- from 1.93 billion in the previous quarter

Govt raps Google, Twitter and Facebook over fake news: Report

The I&B ministry did not respond to a request for comment on the meeting, which was also attended by Indian content-sharing platforms ShareChat and Koo, which have millions of users in the country

Abide by Indian laws or pack up: Andhra High Court to Twitter

The HC's warning came in connection with Twitter not following the orders of withdrawing abusive content against judiciary from the social media platform.

19.3 mn content pieces 'actioned' on Facebook in India during Dec: Meta

Under the IT rules that came into effect in May last year, large digital platforms (with over five million users) have to publish periodic compliance reports every month

Meet India's Most Favourite Tech YouTuber - Manoj Saru aka Technology Gyaan

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Consumers lost $770 million in social media scams in 2021: Report

More than 95,000 people reported about $770 million in losses to fraud initiated on social media platforms in 2021, according to a new report

Indian govt asked Twitter for data on 2,200 accounts in 1st half of 2021

The Indian government asked Twitter for data on 2,200 user accounts in the January-June 2021 period and the micro-blogging platform complied with just 2 per cent of the requests

Rahul Gandhi says losing Twitter followers, firm says numbers accurate

Citing that his following has frozen ever since August 2021, the Congress leader shared that earlier he was gaining new followers at the rate of over 2.3 lakhs per month

Twitter's upcoming feature could share tweets with up to 150 select users

Micro blogging site Twitter is reportedly developing a feature that will allow users to curate a list of people -- up to 150 users -- to send certain tweets out to.

Uttarakhand polls: Parties battle it out on social media amid rally ban

With Covid curbs in place and less than a month to go for the Assembly polls, both the BJP and the Congress in Uttarakhand are making the optimum use of social media to reach out to voters.

Assembly elections: Koo launches Voters Guide to encourage people to vote

Microblogging platform Koo said it has released a multi-lingual guide on Voter Rights and Responsibilities ahead of the upcoming legislative assembly elections.

Amazon faces flak on social media for allegedly insulting Indian flag

Amazon faced the ire of a section of Indian social media users over merchandising some products, including apparel and food items, that feature images of the Indian flag

Crypto.com users not able to access accounts after $34 mn hack

Several users complained about issues with logging back to their accounts on Crypto.com after the platform was hit by a $34 million hack

Supreme Court refuses to entertain plea to censor Kangana Ranaut posts

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea seeking censorship of actress Kangana Ranaut's all future statements on social media