'You just lied! Elon Musk calls out BBC reporter during interview after he claims rise in hate speech on TwitterWhen asked to mention any incident or an example, the journalist said he doesn’t “actually use the feed anymore”.
13 Apr, 2023, 12.59 PM IST
Twitter staring at multi-million-euro fines in Germany: reportThe report in Techcrunch says that about 600 cases have been filed against Twitter in Germany for failing to moderate content.
11 Apr, 2023, 03.46 PM IST
As Elon Musk is learning, content moderation is a messy jobNeo-Nazi Andrew Anglin, the founder of an infamous neo-Nazi website, was reinstated Thursday, one of many previously banned users to benefi...
05 Dec, 2022, 11.12 AM IST
Twitter executive says moving fast on moderation, as harmful content surgesTwitter is also more aggressively restricting abuse-prone hashtags and search results in areas including child exploitation, regardless of ...
03 Dec, 2022, 07.42 AM IST
Hate speech down significantly on Twitter: Elon MuskTwitter CEO Elon Musk on Thursday said that the hate speeches are down significantly on the micro-blogging platform.
24 Nov, 2022, 05.51 PM IST
Twitter’s top advertisers are being urged to avoid site if Musk lowers standardsThe groups pressed companies including Apple Inc., Best Buy Co., Coca-Cola Co. and Verizon Communications Inc. in a letter to their chief e...
02 Nov, 2022, 09.37 PM IST
Elon Musk's Twitter roils with hate speech as trolls test new limitsTwitter has long wrestled with how to enforce content policies fairly on its platform in order to appease the advertisers, users and powerf...
29 Oct, 2022, 09.33 AM IST
Twitter loses online hate speech court battle in FranceThe decision provides ammunition to campaigners elsewhere in Europe who want tougher controls to prevent the spread of racist and discrimin...
21 Jan, 2022, 12.11 PM IST
SC to hear on November 22 pleas accusing Twitter of spreading hate, fake newsGoenka, in his plea, had sought that a mechanism be framed to check advertisements and paid content on Twitter that may be hateful, incitin...
21 Nov, 2021, 11.29 PM IST
Officials debate whether India should have its own social media content moderation rulesIndia provides immunity, or safe harbour, to intermediaries under Section 79(2) of the I-T Act on the condition that the platforms do not m...
01 Sep, 2020, 07.11 AM IST
India fifth largest requestor for removal of content: TwitterTwitter said it witnessed a 47% jump in global legal demands for content removal during the period under review compared to the last report...
20 Aug, 2020, 12.54 PM IST
Parliamentary panel on IT to look into Facebook's content takedown concerns"I will look into the issues raised & of course seek to hear from those named," Shashi Tharoor, Kerala Member of Parliament from the Indian...
16 Aug, 2020, 11.18 AM IST
Curbing fake, hate content on riots: Social media companiesSeveral instances of accounts peddling propaganda without any checks were shared with social media platforms and they were urged to reduce ...
07 Mar, 2020, 10.39 AM IST
Facebook removes 574 posts; Twitter deletes 49 accounts during first three phasesAs many as 60 Facebook posts had ‘political advertisements’ during the silent period despite EC’s directions against the same
25 Apr, 2019, 08.36 AM IST
Government plans meet to chalk out strategy to remove hate messagesObjectionable contents with hate messages, especially those having communal overtones, could soon be removed from social media platforms li...
08 Oct, 2015, 08.01 PM IST
Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp misused for hate campaigns: Government"Instances of misuse of Twitter, Facebook, email, blogs and Whatsapp to spread hate campaign in the country have come to the notice of the ...
29 Apr, 2015, 04.18 PM IST
Government finding it difficult to block hate content on Twitter: Kapil Sibal"The difficulty is that Twitter is a site, which operates from outside India and the server of all such sites are outside the jurisdiction ...
25 Aug, 2012, 06.00 AM IST