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Twitter prohibits sharing of personal photos, videos without consent

Twitter Inc said it will not allow sharing of personal media such as photos and videos on its platform without the consent of the person.

Tech firms led by founders shining, except Twitter

After a souring run in stock markets, Twitter has now appointed Parag Agrawal, formerly the chief technology officer

UK competition watchdog asks Meta to sell GIF maker Giphy

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it had found that last year's acquisition of Giphy would reduce competition between social media platforms and in display advertising

Twitter suffers outage for web users in India amid new CEO buzz

According to Downdetector, a website that monitors app outages, users in Twitter started facing the problem around 6 p.m. especially on the web version

All you need to know about Parag Agrawal, the new India-born Twitter CEO

For Parag Agrawal, the IIT Bombay alumnus who has succeeded Jack Dorsey as the Twitter CEO, one of the biggest tasks at hand would be content moderation

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal tasked to do a job Jack Dorsey struggled with

The new leader of the company will have to chase aggressive goals to step up user growth, double revenue and expedite product execution.

Factbox: Who is Twitter's new chief executive officer Parag Agrawal?

The social media networking platform joins tech giants Apple, Amazon and Alphabet in tapping a company insider for the top job

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey expected to step down, says report; stock jumps

Shares of the microblogging platform surged 9% in early trading, while those of digital payments firm Square Inc, which is also helmed by Dorsey, were up 3%

Make it safe or we'll make you do it: Australian PM tells Twitter, Meta

If the social media platforms fail to do so, they will have to pay defamation costs

Australia to bring laws to force media platforms to unmask online trolls

The ruling caused some news companies like CNN to deny Australians access to their Facebook pages.

Top headlines: Amazon seeks pause on CCI review, India Inc's profit booms

Tighter rules likely for social media firms, may supersede IT laws; Digital tax for US companies to stay until OECD pact comes into force. More on today's top headlines

Tighter rules likely for social media firms, may supersede IT laws: Experts

Players stand to lose safe harbour provisions that protect them from third party content; platforms that do not act as intermediaries may be treated as publishers, held accountable for hosted content

Parliamentary panel recommends new regulator for social media platforms

The panel is asking for tighter rules because current laws treating these social media platforms as intermediaries hasn't done enough in terms of regulation: Sources

WhatsApp testing playback speed controls for audio messages: Report

Meta-owned instant messaging platform WhatsApp in May rolled out the ability to change the playback speeds of voice messages and now the firm is working on bringing the same feature to audio messages.

Parliament panel recommends stricter rules for data protection in Bill

Social media platforms that are not intermediaries should be classified as publishers, it has reportedly said.

China: Social media platform bans users from flaunting wealth online

With Chinese users increasingly sharing more 'wealth-bragging' videos on social media, a popular lifestyle platform in China has put a ban on such videos on its site

Twitter rolls back support for opening links in AMP on iOS, Android

Now, attempting to visit a page from Twitter appears to send users directly to the regular web page, rather than an AMP version that may be available

Mixed reaction by netizens to govt's decision of repealing farm laws

The prime minister announced his government has decided to repeal the three legislations

During COP26, Facebook served ads with climate falsehoods, skepticism

Facebook, which recently changed its name to Meta, does not have a specific policy on climate misinformation in ads or unpaid posts

What have you done on hate content: Delhi Assembly panel asks Facebook

The committee alleged that during the northeast Delhi riots in February 2020, the social media giant did very little to stop the spread of fake news and hate posts on its platform.