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How Beijing wins friends and influences the influencers

State-run news outlets and local governments have organised and funded pro-Beijing influencers' travel, according to government documents

Compromised again

Govt social media needs more accountability

What the PM Modi Twitter breach tells us about hackers

Pitching Bitcoin has become the Rick Roll of the hacking community - a funny prank rather than a nasty attack

Web 3.0: This version is new, more open, and decentralises the internet

In contrast, the Web3 world is envisioned as a decentralised internet which is permissionless and democratic

Meta tests live chat support for people locked out of their accounts

Meta (formerly Facebook) is testing live chat support for people, including creators, who have been locked out of their accounts.

US Senators announce bipartisan social media data transparency bill

A bipartisan group of US Senators has announced a new bill that would require social media companies to share platform data with independent researchers.

Modi bats for joint efforts to shape global norms for social media, cryptos

Modi on Friday called for united efforts to shape global norms for emerging technologies like social media and cryptocurrencies so that they are used to "empower" democracy and not to "undermine" it

Govt says has taken several steps to curb harmful content on social media

The government has taken several steps to address the challenges of user harm and hateful information available on social media platforms, Parliament was informed on Friday.

Instagram to bring back chronological feed, says company head

The company's algorithmically sorted feed, introduced in 2016, and then updated in 2017 to include recommended posts, is disliked by many users

Instagram CEO faces lawmakers amid anger over potential harm

The CEO of Facebook's Instagram is facing lawmakers angry over revelations of how the popular photo-sharing platform can harm some young users and demanding that the company commit to making changes.

Twitter trends: 2021's good, bad, happy and sad through hashtags

The microblogging site, which was at the centre of many things, became the default Covid-19 helpline for people

Instagram launches feature urging teenagers to take a break

Young users will see notifications about the feature and be urged to set reminders to take more breaks going forward

WhatsApp to allow default disappearing messages, provide greater control

This new feature is optional and does not change or delete any of the user's existing chats

Donald Trump's social media venture says it has raised $1 billion

The capital raise underscored the former US president's ability to attract strong financial backing

New CEO Parag Agrawal begins restructuring Twitter, two senior execs quit

New Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has begun restructuring the company and two senior executives have already stepped down as part of the reorganisation plan.

Twitter removes 3.465 state-linked info operations, users lose followers

Twitter on Thursday cut down what it called 'state-backed information operations'

Meta launches new safety initiatives aiming at online protection of women

A first of its kind platform, NCII.org has partnered with various Indian organisations such as Social Media Matters, Centre for Social Research, and Red Dot Foundation

Flipkart merges depts to create singular growth org under Prakash Sikaria

Sikaria, who is Senior Vice President - Growth and Monetization, Flipkart, has been with the firm since 2015

Clubhouse adds support for 13 more languages including Bengali

The company is rolling out support for Arabic, Bengali, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Farsi / Persian, Hausa, Igbo, Marathi, Nepali, Somali, Thai, Turkish, and Yoruba

Twitter says will not allow sharing of private pics, videos without consent

Twitter will now remove media when notified by the individuals in it, or by an authorised representative, that they did not give their consent for having their private image or video shared