UPI underdogs seek fair play; WhatsApp tightens scam defencesSmaller UPI players will meet NPCI to curb the growth of industry leaders PhonePe, Google Pay and Paytm. This and more in today’s ETtech To...
29 Apr, 2026, 07.43 PM IST
Australia moves to tax Meta, Google and TikTok to fund newsroomsAustralia plans to tax Meta, Google, and TikTok. This aims to fund news reporters. The government will introduce legislation by July 2. Pla...
29 Apr, 2026, 08.10 AM IST
Constant AI labelling, lasting pain: Why govt's label mandate could reshape social mediaIndia's MeitY is proposing a significant new rule for social media platforms. Platforms must now display labels on synthetic content contin...
23 Apr, 2026, 12.28 AM IST
Tata Digital CEO on company's reset; Groww doubles net profit in Q4Happy Tuesday! Tata Digital CEO Sajith Sivanandan spoke to us exclusively about the ongoing restructuring at the company under him. This an...
21 Apr, 2026, 09.36 AM IST
Facebook takes down Satheesan interview after Kerala police noticeFacebook has removed an interview segment featuring Kerala Opposition Leader V.D. Satheesan following a request from state police. The poli...
27 Mar, 2026, 10.12 PM IST
Brazil issues 72-hour deadline to Meta over fact-checking practicesBrazil's federal government has issued an extrajudicial notice to Meta, demanding explanations for its decision to discontinue its data ver...
11 Jan, 2025, 08.00 AM IST
Australia plans new rules forcing Big Tech to continue paying news outletsAustralia in 2021 passed laws to make the US tech giants, such as Alphabet's Google and Meta, compensate media companies for the links that...
12 Dec, 2024, 09.40 AM IST
Oversight Board upholds Meta’s decision of removing video of communal violence in OdishaMajority of the board also backs decision to remove identical videos across Meta platforms given violence in Odisha at the time
30 Nov, 2023, 02.10 PM IST
Google will pay $74 million annually to Canadian news industry: Canada governmentThe agreement removes a threat by Google to block the ability to search for Canadian news on Google in Canada. Facebook and Instagram paren...
30 Nov, 2023, 11.18 AM IST
Israel conflict: Meta takes steps to remove Hamas-related disinformationIn the three days after the attack, Meta said it removed or marked as disturbing more than 795,000 pieces of content in Hebrew or Arabic.
13 Oct, 2023, 04.42 PM IST
Meta tells Australia inquiry it will label government-affiliated accountsSocial media giant Meta Platforms, owner of Facebook and Instagram, plans to label government-affiliated accounts on its new Twitter-like p...
11 Jul, 2023, 08.40 AM IST
Russia fines WhatsApp for first time for not deleting banned contentAlthough WhatsApp's parent company Meta Platforms Inc was last year banned in Russia as an "extremist" organisation, the messenger app - wh...
01 Jun, 2023, 02.55 PM IST
Meta threatens to yank news content from California over payments billThe proposed California Journalism Preservation Act would require "online platforms" to pay a "journalism usage fee" to news providers whos...
01 Jun, 2023, 09.02 AM IST
Meta may end Facebook, Instagram news content in CanadaMeta Platforms has threatened to end news content on Facebook and Instagram in Canada if lawmakers pass the proposed Online News Act, which...
09 May, 2023, 12.20 AM IST
Google, Meta executives push back against Canada online news billGoogle and Meta would withdraw access to news articles in Canada if legislation compelling internet companies to pay news publishers is pas...
04 May, 2023, 09.36 AM IST
Facebook owner Meta may remove news from platform if US Congress passes media billMeta spokesperson Andy Stone in a tweet said the company would be forced to consider removing news if the law was passed "rather than submi...
06 Dec, 2022, 07.16 AM IST
BJP's Amit Malviya to file criminal and civil proceedings against The Wire for 'tarnishing reputation'The Wire in a series of news reports, now retracted, had alleged that Meta, the parent company of social media giants -- WhatsApp, Facebook...
27 Oct, 2022, 08.14 PM IST