Minimum EPS-95 pension increased to Rs 7,500? EPFO says thisA letter circulating on social media falsely claims the minimum Employees Pension Scheme 95 pension has increased to Rs 7,500 monthly. The ...
19 May, 2026, 06.25 PM IST
Rs 40 lakh return from Rs 22,000 investment? How ‘Quantum AI’ scam is misusing Nirmala Sitharaman’s name to lure investorsQuantum AI scam: A viral message falsely claims Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is promoting a 'Quantum AI' investment scheme. It promi...
06 May, 2026, 03.38 PM IST
Elon Musk settles SEC lawsuit over Twitter disclosures, $1.5 million fine imposedElon Musk has settled a civil lawsuit with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The case involved his delayed disclosure of initial p...
05 May, 2026, 07.17 AM IST
Elon Musk must face class action over late disclosure of Twitter stake, judge rulesA federal judge has allowed former Twitter investors to proceed with a class action lawsuit against Elon Musk. Investors claim Musk delayed...
01 Apr, 2026, 06.48 AM IST
Twitter shareholder case accusing Musk of driving down stock goes to juryThe civil trial in San Francisco centers on a class-action lawsuit filed just before Musk took control of Twitter, which he later renamed X...
18 Mar, 2026, 08.42 AM IST
Twitter suspends $8 paid verification rules as fake brand accounts flood platformWhile many of these fake Twitter accounts have been suspended, new ones have been mushrooming on the microblogging site. Parody accounts ha...
12 Nov, 2022, 11.10 AM IST
Fake BSF Twitter account deleted as Centre activates its fact check unit, force writes to micro-blogging siteThe Twitter handle was deleted within 24 hours after the fact check unit under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) declared ...
07 Sep, 2022, 03.22 PM IST
SEC questions Twitter on how it counts fake accountsThe SEC's Division of Corporation Finance asked the questions in a June 15 letter, shortly before Tesla CEO Elon Musk raised the issue as g...
25 Aug, 2022, 10.19 AM IST
Twitter users have 'spoken' on fake accounts: Elon MuskElon Musk, who is fighting a bitter legal battle with Twitter over the cancellation of the $44 billion takeover deal, last week began a Twi...
08 Aug, 2022, 10.19 AM IST
Elon Musk says 'still committed', hours after putting Twitter deal on holdElon Musk on Friday said the deal to take over Twitter is 'on hold' till there's clarity on whether spam and fake accounts represent less t...
14 May, 2022, 10.05 AM IST
Twitter halts its account verification programme againTwitter admitted last month it permanently suspended a "small number" of fake accounts it mistakenly verified after re-launching its public...
14 Aug, 2021, 10.49 AM IST
Partnering with law enforcement agencies to tackle fake news: TwitterTaranjeet Singh, country director of Twitter India, said sectors like auto, banking and financial services and technology primarily pushed ...
24 May, 2018, 09.53 AM IST
Fraud or not: New algorithm can now spot fake Facebook and Twitter accountsThe method is based on the assumption that fake accounts tend to establish improbable links to other users in the networks.
18 Apr, 2018, 03.36 PM IST
Twitter deletes fake account of Urjit PatelThe fake handle appeared real since it had Patel profit photo as DP with RBI logo as background and it followed just one handle - the offic...
23 Aug, 2016, 10.49 PM IST
Gautam Adani to take action against fake Twitter accountThe Adani group said here today that it would take action against a fake Twitter account in the name of the group's founder Gautam Adani.
25 Mar, 2014, 10.29 PM IST
Twitter says six fake PMO accounts removedThe six Twitter accounts, resembling that of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), have been removed after India complained they had objection...
24 Aug, 2012, 06.58 PM IST
Action only against sites posting inflammatory content: Sushilkumar ShindeGovernment's decision to block certain Twitter accounts came after fake PMO accounts were found on Twitter and other social media sites.
24 Aug, 2012, 02.40 PM IST