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Tech firms in UK must have plan for illegal content spikes during crises like Southport: regulatorBritish tech firms must now have crisis response plans for surges in illegal online content, following the 2024 Southport riots. Regulator ...- Singapore blocks social media posts attacking Indian communitySingapore has ordered social media platforms to block 14 posts, likely from China, that targeted the Indian community and undermined the na...
- ‘They walk among us’: White House launches UFO-themed immigration websiteThe White House has launched a UFO-themed “Aliens” website highlighting immigration arrests and ICE enforcement data as part of President D...
- Loving doom and gloomOnline users compulsively consume distressing news. This trend fuels terms like 'doomscroll' and 'rage-bait', content designed to provoke a...
- Odisha govt imposes 24-hour social media ban in Cuttack amid communal tensionThe Mohan Charan Majhi-led Odisha government imposed a temporary ban on social media platforms, including WhatsApp, Facebook, and X, across...
- ETtech Explainer: Behind Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the Indian governmentThe lawsuit challenges the Indian government's interpretation of Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology (IT) Act, arguing it contra...
- Cyber Police Kashmir warns people against posting inflammatory content following Nasrallah's killingCyber Police Kashmir has advised social media users to avoid sharing posts that could incite communal or sectarian tensions following the k...
- Facebook fact checkers say curbing misinformation requires more proactive effortsAccording to the research report cited by WSJ, most users considered Facebook responsible for moderating this content.
- Borderless tech facilitates fake news, rumour-mongering: GovernmentPP Chaudhary said that the government approaches social media platforms for removal or blocking of specific contents on a case-to-case basi...
- Government acting against hateful social media content, case by casePrasad said whenever any inflammatory, harmful and hateful content on social media is brought to the notice of the govt, action is taken un...
- Government orders ISPs to unblock 32 websites, linksIndian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) Director-General Gulshan Rai confirmed to ET that the unblocking orders had been sent to ...
- Government planned to bar Twitter after exodus of North-East peopleGovernment was planning to block micro-blogging site Twitter in eight states as the content on it was thought to be one of the main reasons...
- High Court declines to hear plea for unblocking websites for hosting 'inflammatory' contentsDelhi HC today turned down a plea for quashing the Centre's notifications, blocking web pages, for hosting "inflammatory" contents.
- Assam violence: Cyber war continues, government blocks 89 more web pages to avoid panicGovt ordered the blocking of 89 web pages, including Facebook, Google and Twitter, to avoid panic among northeast migrants living across th...
- Pakistan denies its role in hatemongering; 74 websites blocked for objectionable contentIndia formally took up with Islamabad the issue of Pakistani hardline groups spreading inflammatory material through social networking site...
- Court asks Facebook, Google to take down inflammatory images; summons India heads of Google, Facebook, YahooA district court in the capital issued summons to Google, Facebook, Yahoo and 19 other websites asking them to appear in court.
- Congress website: Sonia Gandhi's profile defaced after hackers invade official websiteThe hacking comes barely days after telecom minister Kapil Sibal asked internet companies and social media site, Facebook.
- Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal under attack in cyberspaceKapil Sibal on Wednesday came under a fresh wave of attack on government's move to monitor content on social networking sites.
- Twitter, Facebook users target Kapil Sibal for attempt to muzzle internet contentSibal's Wikipedia profile was locked in the evening due to a large amount of web activists trying to edit simultaneously, describing him in...
- After Sibal, Omar Abdullah too feels some online content inflammatoryOmar said he was against media censorship but the content on some social networking sites were "dangerous and inflammatory".
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