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China mining data from Western social media to equip military: Report

China is mining Western social media to equip its military and police with information on foreign targets, according to a new report

'16.2 mn content pieces 'actioned' on Facebook proactively in India in Nov'

Taking action could include removing a piece of content from Facebook or Instagram or covering photos or videos that may be disturbing to some audiences with a warning

Social network Tumblr makes new changes to stay on Apple App Store

Social networking website Tumblr which faced a years-long struggle with approval on the iOS App Store, has said that they have made fresh changes in order to remain on the Apple App Store

Instagram to 'double down' on video, focus on Reels in 2022: Report

Instagram's head Adam Mosseri said that the platform will "double down" on video and focus on Reels in the upcoming year.

Maybe I'm partly Chinese: Musk reacts to viral video of his doppelganger

The video originally posted on Douyin, the Chinese version of Tiktok, showed the lookalike dressed in a black coat while standing next to a black car

Meta-owned WhatsApp to enable users to search businesses nearby: Report

Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly planning to rollout a new feature which enables users to search for businesses nearby.

TikTok-rival Chingari app crosses 107 mn downloads on Play Store

Chingari had recently tied up with multiple platforms for unique entertainment and engagement collaborations

Indian company gifts NFT to Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal

The NFT has been listed on the marketplace platform OpenSea

TikTok's latest video tool is violating open-source license: Report

Short video-making platform TikTok's latest video-production tool is violating open-source licenses, the media reported.

Twitter amplifies politically right-leaning tweets more, says study

Microblogging platform Twitter uses an algorithm that amplifies the reach of politically right-leaning sources more than that of politically left-leaning sources, suggested a study.Twitter uses the algorithm to personalize the content its users see on their home timelines.Cambridge University professor Ferenc Huszar and his colleagues quantified whether Twitter's algorithm amplifies left-leaning or right-leaning content using a randomized control group of nearly two million daily active Twitter users chosen by the platform to receive content in reverse-chronological order without personalization and a treatment group representing 4 per cent of all other accounts with personalized timelines.The authors analyzed the algorithmic amplification effect on tweets made by 3,634 elected politicians from major political parties in seven countries that are highly represented on Twitter.The authors also measured the algorithmic amplification of 6.2 million political news articles shared in the ...

TikTok expected to rank as 3rd largest social network: Report

The report by Insider Intelligence -- the firm previously known as eMarketer -- predicts that TikTok will reach 755.0 million monthly users in 2022

Meta takes legal action on 39K phishing scams using its platforms

Meta (formerly Facebook) has filed a federal lawsuit in California court in the US to disrupt phishing attacks designed to deceive people into sharing their login credentials

Govt bans 20 YouTube channels, two websites under new IT rules

The Youtube channels and the websites were allegedly running anti-India content from Pakistan.

From metaverse to DAOs, a guide to 2021's tech buzzwords

If you're still drawing a blank as 2021 wraps up, here's a short glossary

Most of those arrested under IT Act between 18 and 30, shows data

The IT Act has been the subject of heated discussion on a variety of issues, including the liability of big technology firms

Meta alerts 50K users on being targeted by 'surveillance-for-hire' entities

The global surveillance-for-hire industry targets people across the Internet to collect intelligence, manipulate them into revealing information and compromise their devices and accounts

Parl panel moots greater accountability for social media platforms

The key highlights of the report include widening the scope of the draft legislation to also cover non-personal data, tighter regulation for social media platforms

LIC warns of legal action over misuse of its logo on social media

LIC has asked the public not to fall prey to proposals which are misusing its logo on social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube and other social media

India's entrepreneurial spirit driving optimism about future: Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg said he is excited about the role that India will play in building the metaverse

Twitter adds automatically generated captions for all videos

Micro-blogging site Twitter on Wednesday announced that it has started rolling out automatic captions for videos.