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Amid the second phase of nation-wide lockdown people are glued to the screens of their digital gizmos to beat the boredom. Social media is abuzz with photos and videos of people confining themselves in their residences. But a heart warming video of two children from Nalbari district of lower Assam performing on a popular Assamese love song […]
With over 60 confirmed cases of coronavirus currently in India and over 110K cases worldwide, the epidemic has well and truly taken over news cycles all over the world. And an equally tragic side-effect of the outbreak is the spread of fake news online. From WhatsApp forwards to tweets claiming to cure coronavirus and Facebook posts […]
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and TikTok will have to reveal users’ identities if Indian government agencies ask them to, according to the country’s controversial new rules for social media companies and messaging apps expected to be published later this month. The requirement comes as governments around the world are trying to hold social media companies more accountable for the content […]
India’s proposed new privacy bill may require large social media platforms to offer an identify-verification option, a potentially precedent-setting effort to rein in the spread of “fake news”, two government sources told Reuters. The requirement would likely raise a host of technical and policy issues for companies including Facebook and its WhatsApp and Instagram units, […]