Who is John Ratcliffe, the new Director of CIA?US President Donald Trump has appointed John Ratcliffe as the Director of the CIA, making Ratcliffe the first person to have held both CIA ...
18 Mar, 2025, 12.14 PM IST
Russian version of Wikipedia to launch soon, reports sayBeta testing - a limited audience testing of the site - started in mid-2023, the daily Kommersant reported, and there were reportedly alrea...
15 Jan, 2024, 02.16 PM IST
Cricket World Cup, IPL, Jawan and Pathaan among top 10 most-read Wikipedia articles in 2023Meanwhile, the most popular article was about ChatGPT. Since its launch just over a year ago, OpenAI's ChatGPT has skyrocketed into the pub...
06 Dec, 2023, 08.37 AM IST
EU's Breton urges Big Tech to use new online content rules to restore trustThe rules known as the Digital Services Act (DSA) require the companies to perform risk management, conduct external and independent auditi...
23 Aug, 2023, 10.00 PM IST
Russia fines Google for not deleting 'fake information' about Ukraine conflict: reportA host of sites are under scrutiny in Russia for failing to remove content that Moscow deems illegal.
17 Aug, 2023, 04.41 PM IST
Russia fines Reddit $20,000 for banned content: news agency RIAReddit joins a list of sites under scrutiny in Russia for failing to remove content that Moscow deems illegal, including Wikimedia, streami...
15 Aug, 2023, 08.45 PM IST
Russia fines Reddit for first time over 'banned content,' RIA saysWikipedia is one of the few surviving independent sources of information in Russia since a state crackdown on online content intensified af...
15 Aug, 2023, 05.46 PM IST
Russia fines Apple, Wikimedia for spreading ''false information'' about Ukraine conflictApple paused all product sales in Russia shortly after Moscow sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022, and limited i...
03 Aug, 2023, 07.56 PM IST
Russia fines Telegram and Viber over war-related contentDubai-based Telegram was ordered to pay 4 million roubles ($47,525), Interfax said, and the Japanese company behind Viber was fined 1 milli...
20 Jun, 2023, 03.59 PM IST
Russia fines Wikipedia owner for failing to delete Azov battalion content - IfaxA Russian court on Tuesday fined the Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, 3 million roubles ($36,854) for refusing to delete an arti...
06 Jun, 2023, 03.45 PM IST
Moscow fines Wikipedia owner $18,000 for Ukraine article: ReportRussia has hit the Wikimedia Foundation with a string of fines in recent months
20 Apr, 2023, 02.47 PM IST
Russia continues information crackdown with new Wikimedia fineWikipedia, which says it offers "the second draft of history", is one of the few surviving fact-checked sources of information in Russian s...
06 Apr, 2023, 06.59 PM IST
Adani staff manipulated information, removed warnings on website, claims WikipediaThis followed US short-seller Hindenburg Research accusing the group of accounting fraud, stock price manipulation and money laundering, al...
21 Feb, 2023, 06.16 PM IST
Wikimedia foundation urges Pakistan telecommunications authority to restore access"On Friday, February 3, 2023, Pakistan's Telecommunications Authority blocked Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects. The Wikimedia Foundation ca...
04 Feb, 2023, 01.07 PM IST
Russia threatens to fine Wikipedia if it doesn't delete 'false information'Russian communications regulator Roskomnadzor said on Tuesday it wanted Wikipedia to remove "material with inaccurate information of public...
05 Apr, 2022, 02.29 PM IST
Explained: Who are the Skripal poisoning suspects allegedly behind deadly Czech blastThe unit, according to a 2019 report by The New York Times, is focused on subversion, sabotage and assassination outside Russia. Kremlin sp...
19 Apr, 2021, 04.45 PM IST
Project Tiger: Wikipedia ropes in locals to contribute articles in Indian languagesThe project has generated content in Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Bengali, Urdu, Odiya and Gujarati.
29 May, 2019, 02.31 PM IST