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Word of the Day: GobemoucheWord of the day: Few forgotten words capture the spirit of the digital misinformation age as sharply as “gobemouche.” Humorous, dramatic an...
Engage, don't spat over dataA Reuters report questioning the accuracy of India's unemployment data sparked a debate, with the government issuing a rebuttal. The articl...
Ads ruined social media, now they’re coming to AI chatbotsChatbots are pivoting to the ad model and optimising for eyeballs. As subscription revenue plateaus, AI developers are increasingly explori...
Was Vivek Dahiya seen with mystery woman amid buzz of divorce from Divyanka Tripathi? Actor reacts: 'We are having a laugh ...'Vivek Dahiya has addressed rumors about his marriage with Divyanka Tripathi, dismissing them as baseless and humorous. He criticized sensat...
Ready to help media industry in transition from traditional to digital: Ashwini VaishawUnion Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw highlights the government's readiness to aid the media industry during the tra...
Meta’s Community Notes faces backlash over misinformation, accountability concernsFact-checking and disinformation research have long been contentious issues in the US, particularly in the hyperpolarised political climate...
The life, death and rebirth of an AI-generated news outletIrish broadcaster Dave Fanning's defamation lawsuit involves Kasturi Chakraborty and Hemin Bakir, former journalists at BNN Breaking, revea...
Rajeev Chandrashekhar rebuts Washington Post, says report on Apple hack warnings has "half facts, fully embellished"Taking it on his social media X, Rajiv Chandrasekhar stated, "Rebutting @washingtonpost's terrible storytelling is tiresome, but someone ha...
A Meta engineer saw his own child face sexism on Instagram, now, he's testifying before CongressIn the note, Bejar, who worked as an engineering director at Facebook from 2009 to 2015, outlined a "critical gap" between how the company ...
Former Meta engineer testifies before Congress on Instagram's harms to teensArturo Bejar, who worked as an engineering director at Facebook from 2009 to 2015, outlined a "critical gap" between how the company approa...
News articles shared on Twitter will no longer display headlines - Elon Musk thinks it will 'improve aesthetics'!Twitter, now known as X, has stopped displaying headlines for articles shared on the platform in a move towards a more aesthetically pleasi...
Facebook explains content it demotes in news feed in bid for transparencyFacebook said it also demotes content from news publishers that users rate as untrusted in surveys and content posted by pages or accounts ...
Lanka Defence Secretary asks China's embassy to 'educate' Chinese company employees not to wear military-style camouflage uniformsRaising concerns, the Sri Lankan media recently reported that Chinese personnel wearing uniforms that are very much similar to those worn b...
Control antisocial social media with regulatory frameworksWhere traditional media is forced to operate with liability and responsibility, social media is not held to the same standards.
'A 15-year-old influencer can now reach as many people as a newspaper but with none of the responsibility'Harris, a former Google executive and currently president of the Center for Humane Technology, tells Rohit Saran and Neelam Raaj that he ho...
"We intend to launch Facebook News outside US, but no upcoming markets selected yet": FBFacebook has tied up with 200 media outlets to launch a dedicated news tab on its platform that will highlight the most important national ...
Facebook mulls adding a dedicated news tab and paying publishersIt’s a change from the priorities Zuckerberg laid out last year, which focused on friends and family content in the news feed, shifting awa...
The Kochi Post raises first round of angel fundingThis is the second investment in media for Puthen & Cole and Yohannan after Singapore based DealStreetAsia.com, which also received investm...
Gone are the days of long-winded market reports as clickbaits gain ground“The only research that’s worthwhile is original, anticipatory ideas” that generate returns, global research head Candace Browning said in ...
'Facebook, I want my clickbait headlines back'The definition of clickbait is important here. Facebook's is currently narrow: To be considered clickbait, a headline needs to withhold inf...