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WhatsApp to allow users to prioritise their most important chats

Starting Tuesday, WhatsApp is rolling out new settings for archived chats which will give users more control over their inbox and more ways to organise the Archived Chats folder

Over 2,500 accounts on social platform Koo have yellow tick of 'Eminence'

The platform has over 6 million users.

Facebook, tech giants to target manifestos, far-right militias in database

Over next few months, group will add attacker manifestos - often shared by sympathizers after white supremacist violence - and other publications and links flagged by UN initiative Tech Against Terror

Decoded: What changes with Twitter's new privacy policy

Twitter is trying to generate new revenue. The new policy clarifies what sort of data and metadata it will collect

Twitter's updated privacy policy to come into effect on August 19

One of the updates involves Twitter's social audio product Twitter Spaces; It is further adding details of what data it collects for its subscription service, Twitter Blue

Instagram launches new collaborative feature for Reels in India and UK

The feature enables two users to jointly content with each of their followers

Google builds on India bet, set to buy 2-year-old start-up simsim

The financial details of the deal were not disclosed. simsim was founded in June 2019.

Facebook extends pushback on Biden's vaccine criticism on social media

Biden said Friday that social media networks are 'killing people' by allowing spread of misinformation about Covid vaccines, saying that 'the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated'

Social media platforms 'killing people' with misinformation, says Biden

President Joe Biden has said that social media companies are killing people by failing to police misinformation on their platforms about Covid-19 vaccines

Hard knocks for soft power

The state is tightening its control over what we read, watch, hear or laugh at, says Vanita Kohli-Khandekar. Why not facilitate our soft power instead of clamping down on its strengths?

WhatsApp banned 2 mn Indian accounts during May 15-Jun 15 period

Clarifies more than 95% of such bans due to unauthorised use of bulk messaging or spam

Twitter to discontinue Instagram Stories inspired 'Fleets' feature on Aug 3

Twitter on Wednesday announced that it will discontinue its Fleets feature, the platform's own version of stories that disappear after 24 hours, on August 3

Facebook, Instagram to invest over $1 billion in content creators

The investments will include bonus programs to pay creators who hit certain milestones on its apps, including photo-sharing network Instagram, and fund users to produce content, Facebook said.

India single largest source of govt requests for account info: Twitter

India also ranked second in terms of volume of legal demands for content removal after Japan, Twitter said in a blog that provided an update to its transparency report

Twitter permanently suspends some fake accounts it verified by mistake

Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it mistakenly verified some fake accounts that the social media company has now permanently suspended, months after restarting its verification program.

ByteDance shelves IPO after regulators warn about data security: Report

The Chinese tech giant, whose apps also include TikTok's Chinese twin Douyin and the news aggregator Toutiao, had kicked off initial preparations for an IPO of its domestic assets

IT Minister of State Rajeev Chandrashekhar briefly loses Twitter blue tick

Experts suggest the removal of the blue tick was due to the change in user name effected by Chandrashekhar after he took over as a Minister of State.

Facebook's ugly face

Book review of An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination

Twitter India releases its transparency report under new IT rules

According to the data, Twitter in India received the highest number of complaints, 20, relating to defamation

Twitter India names Vinay Prakash as its grievance officer for India

The executive will be based in Bengaluru, says company as it posts data about complaints it had received