Musk and friends are smothering the internet’s truth seekersDisinformation research groups in the US face challenges from lawsuits and probes, primarily by Republicans and Elon Musk. These legal acti...
28 Oct, 2024, 11.19 AM IST
Meta beats censorship lawsuit by RFK Jr's anti-vaccine groupChildren's health defense sued in 2020, saying that Meta had violated its constitutional rights by flagging "vaccine misinformation" as fal...
10 Aug, 2024, 08.50 AM IST
ICMR draws flak from experts over call for BHU study retractionUniversal Health Organisation (UHO) criticizes ICMR for questioning BHU researchers over Covaxin study, calling for academic freedom and da...
22 May, 2024, 01.01 AM IST
Here's why Elon Musk is footing this Indo-Canadian doctor's Rs 2 crore legal billCanadian physician Dr. Kulvinder Kaur Gill faced legal battles and censorship due to her COVID-related tweets, leading to lawsuits and inve...
27 Mar, 2024, 10.24 PM IST
Court eases curbs on Biden administration's contacts with social media firmsA federal appeals court on Friday ruled the White House, the FBI and top health officials may not "coerce or significantly encourage" socia...
09 Sep, 2023, 08.19 AM IST
Court to weigh curbs on Biden administration's contacts with social media firmsA three-judge panel of the conservative-leaning 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is set to hear arguments in the administrati...
10 Aug, 2023, 04.29 PM IST
Will China's next premier be a moderating influence on Xi Jinping?Li Qiang, 63, who is expected to be chosen China's premier on Saturday, will have to grapple with a slowdown in the world's second-largest ...
09 Mar, 2023, 07.24 AM IST
Google to expand misinformation "prebunking" in EuropeThe tech giant plans to release a series of short videos highlighting the techniques common to many misleading claims. The videos will appe...
13 Feb, 2023, 11.14 AM IST
View: China will exit zero-Covid, and energy-starved Europe will end the Russia-Ukraine warAs Europe discovers it is invested in defanging Russia as a major power way less than in their own immediate and future well-being, it woul...
07 Dec, 2022, 07.28 AM IST
China vows crackdown on 'hostile forces' as public tests Xi JinpingThe statement from the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission released late Tuesday comes amid a massive show of force by security ...
30 Nov, 2022, 01.54 PM IST
Chinese authorities seek out COVID protestersSimmering discontent with stringent COVID prevention policies three years into the pandemic ignited into protests in cities thousands of mi...
29 Nov, 2022, 05.35 PM IST
World faces tension with China under Xi Jinping's third termXi has tightened control at home and is trying to use China’s economic heft to increase its influence abroad. Washington accused Beijing th...
24 Oct, 2022, 07.00 AM IST
‘They’re killing people’: Biden denounces social media for virus disinformationBiden’s forceful statement capped weeks of anger in the White House over the dissemination of vaccine disinformation online, even as the pa...
17 Jul, 2021, 02.02 PM IST
Anil Ambani’s studio eyes cinema earnings to recoup Covid lossesThe decision to wait out the pandemic-led closures underscores the financial clout of the box office in India’s film industry that’s alread...
09 Jul, 2021, 07.33 AM IST
Govt tells social media platforms to block 100 posts to 'prevent obstructions' to Covid-19 fightThe Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) ordered blocking of the posts on a recommendation from the Ministry of Home ...
26 Apr, 2021, 12.37 AM IST
US Congress to press Big Tech CEOs over speech, misinformationThat's been a familiar theme for lawmakers over the past few years. But the pressure is even higher following the Jan. 6 insurrection at th...
25 Mar, 2021, 02.16 PM IST
Coronavirus-afflicted 2020 looks like 1918 despite science's marchIn 1918, no one had a vaccine, treatment or cure for the great flu pandemic as it ravaged the world and killed more than 50 million people....
05 May, 2020, 10.41 AM IST