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'India's online censorship not aligned with US view of freedom of speech'

The White House said India's order to take down tweets critical to Indian govt handling of Covid-19 is not aligned with America's view of freedom of speech around the world

WhatsApp group admin not liable for objectionable post by other member: HC

The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has held and quashed a case of sexual harassment lodged against a 33-year-old man.

English football plans social media boycott to 'eradicate online hate'

The boycott is scheduled for between April 30 and May 3

Govt asks Twitter, other social platforms to remove 'misleading' Covid posts

The government has asked social media platforms to remove content and posts that were found to be spreading misinformation and public panic around the pandemic

How TikTok, the new "hit machine", chooses which songs go most viral

TikTok, a social network where people post short videos, often set to music, has become this generation's hit machine

'Please help!' India's Covid-19 tragedy spills onto social media

Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Telegram inundated with messages begging for hospital beds, medicines.

Apple will let Parler back on App Store following improvements: Report

Parler is a conservative social media app

South Korean users team up to sue Facebook over leaked user data

Commission on protecting personal data says Facebook violated the country's laws by providing information of at least 3.3 million million users to third parties.

Pakistan blocks social media apps temporarily on security grounds

Internet users encountered difficulty accessing apps including WhatsApp, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter

Users can move Oversight Board to remove harmful content from FB, Instagram

This new capability, long-sought by advocates of independent content moderation, represents an important step toward delivering a more principled and transparent model of content moderation

Budweiser promises to restore art it plastered with Messi murals

The beer brand had painted over street art in Delhi and Mumbai, inviting social media outrage

TikTok most downloaded non-gaming app worldwide in March despite India ban

With more than 58 million installs in March, TikTok became the most downloaded non-gaming app worldwide last month, said a new report

Microblogging platform Koo eyes going global after cracking India market

Firm will co-exist with Twitter rather than be a competitor, says CEO Radhakrishna

Instagram betting on local content to dispel 'elitist myth'

Asserts that it does not cater primarily to English-speaking base, claims launch of short video format Reels last year has further expanded its reach

Facebook, Instagram face another global outage in less than a month

Facebook and Instagram went down for millions of its users for couple of hours in various parts of the world early Friday morning

Holocaust survivors across world harness social media to spread message

Holocaust survivors from around the world are taking to social media to share their experience of how hate speech paved the way for mass murder

Supreme Court Justice in US suggests regulations for social media platforms

Justice Clarence Thomas said that Congress should consider whether laws should be updated to better regulate social media platforms that have "unbridled control" over "unprecedented" amounts of speech

Audio app Clubhouse floats payments feature for creators to monetise

Audio-chat app Clubhouse said it will launch a monetisation feature for its creators on the platform and that it will not receive any payment from it

Tweets, receipts and peloton riders: Foodmakers embrace Big Data

Some companies are grabbing cell-phone tracking info, scouring customers' grocery receipts and keeping tabs on how long it takes to clean up dinner

Illegal content row: Russia extends punitive Twitter slowdown until May 15

Russia said on Monday it would extend a punitive slowdown of Twitter until May 15 though it acknowledged the US social media company had speeded up deletion of banned content