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Meet Ombre Men, The Brand Using Social Media Used For A Great Purpose

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Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death calls on Facebook

The committee reports directly to President Vladimir Putin. It was not immediately clear what the consequences of the criminal case might be.

Twitter makes it difficult to see chronological feed, users annoyed

Twitter has made an unnecessary change that makes it difficult to see chronological feed by default, leaving millions of users frustrated.

Russia-Ukraine crisis: How social media helped stranded Indian students

A video of students stranded in the war-hit Ukrainian city of Sumy holding Indian flags and threatening to take up a journey to the Russian border on foot created an uproar in national and internation

Twitter introduces 'Creator Dashboard' tool to manage earnings on platform

Micro-blogging site Twitter has introduced a new tool for creators called the "Creator Dashboard" to analyze how they make money on the platform

Australia's social media anti-trolling bill raises alarm for tech giants

Tech giants like Meta, Twitter have decried Australia's proposed social media anti-trolling bill, stressing that it would put an unprecedented level of defamation risk on social media platforms

Snapchat turns off public heatmap as a safety precaution in Ukraine: Report

The Snap Map displays a colour code to show how many people are posting public images in an area. In practice, that means you can get a good idea of where Snapchat users are concentrated

Twitter may be adding a tab dedicated to podcasts, says report

Twitter began branching out to audio when it first launched Spaces in 2020 and dove even deeper into the medium with its acquisition of social podcast platform Breaker

Instagram brings automatic subtitles to videos in feed: Report

The addition should improve accessibility for deaf and hard-of-hearing users, who will have more choices for spoken-word video, reports Engadget

Meta purges 14.8 mn pieces of bad content in India in January

Meta (formerly Facebook) took down over 11.6 million pieces of content across 13 policies for Facebook and over 3.2 million pieces of content across 12 policies for Instagram in January

ShareChat will break even in a few years: Founder-CEO Ankush Sachdeva

In a Q&A, Sachdeva also dwells on his company's monetisation plan, and the strategy behind the $700 mn acquisition of short video platform MX TakaTak

How NFT Culture Has Taken Over Social Media with Accounts like NFT Fool

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Twitter rolls out ability to add content warnings to individual posts

Once you post the tweet with a warning, the image or video will appear blurred out, with a content warning explaining why you have flagged it.

UK Online Safety Bill: Tech firms must verify user identities

The UK government is introducing a bill that will require tech giants like Facebook, Google and other tech platforms to verify the identities of users

Bay Area Attorney Haitham Amin on Utilizing Social Media in the Legal Profession

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What are new-age fake news and misinformation?

Misinformation and fake news spread quickly on social media, ducking even the trained eyes. It also sees a drastic jump during the elections. Our next report finds out more about the age-old menace

Facebook Reels goes global with new money-making tools for creators

To help creators earn money from Facebook Reels, the company said it is expanding tests of overlay ads, starting with banner and sticker ads.

Rural social network Krishify gets $6.2 mn funding for expanding business

Krishify app helps farmers, rural communities and agribusiness companies to interact and transact among themselves.

Donald Trump's social media app launches year after Twitter ban

Donald Trump's social media app that he hopes will rival Twitter launched Monday as he seeks a new digital stage to rally his supporters and fight Big Tech limits on speech a year

Pakistan's opposition rejects toughened new social media law

Pakistan's political opposition and journalist community Monday rejected a tough new cybercrimes law approved by the PM Khan