From UPI to AI: Why India must bet on open-source for digital sovereigntyThe global AI industry's reliance on proprietary models hinders economic growth and digital sovereignty. Open-source AI offers a cost-effec...
20 Feb, 2026, 06.59 PM IST
Why facts held Mark Zuckerberg's Meta backMark Zuckerberg announced Meta's cessation of fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram, citing philosophical and resource burdens. Critics a...
15 Jan, 2025, 11.30 PM IST
Pope warns about AI, fake news and 'manipulating minds'Pope Francis warns of the dangers of misinformation spread via social media and AI, highlighting its potential to manipulate minds for econ...
09 Jan, 2025, 04.41 PM IST
What do people think about smartglasses? New research reveals complicated pictureThere is a stark contrast in opinion between smartglass owners and non-owners. While owners tend to have a more positive outlook, non-owner...
08 Nov, 2024, 11.49 AM IST
One year of war in Gaza: Decoding the role of Big TechIn the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, Big Tech’s involvement through AI and cloud services in warfare has raised ethical concerns. Employee...
07 Oct, 2024, 05.09 PM IST
Facebook News tab will soon be unavailable as Meta scales back news and political contentLaunched in 2019, the News tab curated headlines from national and international news organisations, as well as smaller, local publications...
01 Apr, 2024, 02.58 PM IST
Instagram and Threads are limiting political content: This is terrible for democracyThis change not only signals Meta's retreat from politics and news more broadly, but also challenges any sense of these platforms being goo...
29 Mar, 2024, 10.38 AM IST
Election wave and AI disinformation raise stakes in 2024With elections due in countries representing half the world's population and new technologies turbo-charging disinformation, 2024 will be a...
19 Jan, 2024, 12.05 PM IST
AI-powered misinformation top threat: WEFIn its latest Global Risks Report, the organisation also said an array of environmental risks pose the biggest threats in the longer term. ...
10 Jan, 2024, 11.30 PM IST
Israel-Hamas war: 'Dire' disinformation spreads globallyAs the war in Middle East intensifies, social media has been able to spread disinformation around the country. The conflict, which has kill...
31 Oct, 2023, 05.51 PM IST
Are social media algorithms really polarising society? research offers new insightsAlgorithms used by social media companies may not be as polarising to society as previously thought, according to a study published in Natu...
29 Jul, 2023, 05.08 PM IST
Social media not polarising society in ways public tends to think: reportAlgorithms controlling a social media user's feed, while largely opaque, may not be polarising the society in the same ways as the public t...
28 Jul, 2023, 05.42 PM IST
Meta's algorithms show that America's political polarisation has no easy fixFour research papers, published in Science and Nature, reveal the extent of political echo chambers on Facebook, where conservatives and li...
28 Jul, 2023, 07.33 AM IST
Prophet controversy continues to drive traffic across social mediaThe backlash and controversy surrounding certain remarks made against Prophet Muhammad by BJP spokespersons and the reactions from the Arab...
07 Jun, 2022, 11.05 AM IST
ExpressVPN to shut India servers; Javier Olivan to be Meta’s next COOExpressVPN will remove all its servers in India as it “refuses to participate in the Indian government’s attempts to limit internet freedom...
02 Jun, 2022, 09.34 PM IST
India on top of Facebook's 2021 Integrity Prioritisation ListAfter flagging multiple risks, the internal memo of the social media giant stated it needs to "come out of risk" this year in India with re...
12 Nov, 2021, 08.48 AM IST
Ajit Jogi: Fleeing a sinking ship? By denying implications of 2014 verdict, Congress hands the advantage to BJPIt can be argued that ratings change and it’s a long three years to 2019. But what has not changed is the Congress leadership’s denial of t...
07 Jun, 2016, 03.29 PM IST