Elon Musk releases 'Twitter Files' detailing censorship of information at social media platformThe revelation talks about how a particular story on Hunter Biden in the New York Post was deliberately censored by Twitter at the behest o...
03 Dec, 2022, 01.43 PM IST
Brands blast Twitter for ads next to child pornography accountsTwitter's challenges in identifying child abuse content were first reported in an investigation by tech news site The Verge in late August....
29 Sep, 2022, 09.25 AM IST
Twitter faces claim it benefited from child sex traffickingThe remainder of the claims fail, either because the plaintiffs alleged them inadequately or because they’re blocked by the Communications ...
21 Aug, 2021, 06.30 PM IST
Facebook received 646 reports via grievance mechanism in India during May 15-June 15The data is part of Facebook's monthly compliance report as mandated under the Indian IT rules.
15 Jul, 2021, 10.02 PM IST
Google's first report under new IT rulesFrom Google's first monthly transparency report to Twitter facing a barrage of police cases and Facebook launching a Substack clone, here's...
30 Jun, 2021, 08.08 PM IST
Delhi Police books Twitter under POCSOThe child rights body had on May 29 asked the Delhi Police to book Twitter India under three sections of the POCSO Act, after claiming that...
30 Jun, 2021, 12.04 AM IST
Facebook to publish interim compliance report as per IT rules on Jul 2, final report on Jul 15The new IT rules - which came into force from May 26 - mandate large social media companies to publish periodic compliance reports every mo...
29 Jun, 2021, 10.42 AM IST
Russia fines Facebook, Telegram over banned contentA Moscow court fined Facebook a total of 17 million rubles (roughly $236,000) and Telegram 10 million rubles ($139,000). It wasn't immediat...
11 Jun, 2021, 01.41 AM IST
Google, Facebook updating website to reflect new grievance officer appointed under IT rulesThe new rules require significant social media intermediaries - those with other 50 lakh users - to appoint a grievance officer, nodal offi...
30 May, 2021, 03.15 PM IST
Google, Facebook & WhatsApp complied with IT rules; Twitter is an exception: GovtProminent platforms such as Telegram and LinkedIn, which have a large presence in India, as well as homegrown apps ShareChat and Koo have a...
29 May, 2021, 09.17 AM IST
How much legal immunity do social media companies have?In India, the government has been looking to make social media sites more accountable for content on their platforms.
30 May, 2020, 08.48 AM IST
MeitY may relax norms on content monitoring for social media firmsLooks to drop clause that requires cos to develop automated tools to actively monitor content
06 Sep, 2019, 09.06 AM IST
Politics, pornography and Pakistan: How the three Ps are interlinking in India's WhatsApp groupsWithin the chat groups, content interlinking politics, pornography and Pakistan is ringing some alarm bells.
05 Mar, 2019, 06.44 PM IST
India targets Facebook in backlash against U.S. giantsIn the latest skirmish, the government is targeting Facebook Inc.’s WhatsApp, the popular messaging service.
14 Feb, 2019, 06.38 AM IST
Home Ministry panel to monitor cybercrimesMHA now plans another round of meeting with Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp representatives to put in place a mechanism to address fake news...
04 Jul, 2018, 11.34 PM IST
Kremlin cracking down on internet to muzzle critics, say expertsA move this week to block the strongly encrypted messenger Telegram, less than a month after Putins crushing poll win, marks a new stage in...
08 Apr, 2018, 11.54 AM IST
Search engines, social media more prone to cyber attacks: CiscoOnline ads and social networking websites than pornographic or gambling sites, according to a report by Cisco.
07 Feb, 2013, 01.21 PM IST