Social Media Strategy
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Why Elon Musk’s plan to charge Twitter/X users $1 will actually make the platform’s problems worse
The businessman’s idea of a ‘bot tax’ is not the best way forward.
Hamza Mudassir, The Conversation
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How offering incentives can prompt social media users to post more accurate information
An accuracy-based reward structure could help restore waning user confidence.
Ian Anderson, The Conversation, Gizem Ceylan, The Conversation & Wendy Wood, The Conversation
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Several Twitter users change identities to claim to be Muslims who support citizenship law
Alt News finds that many of these handles had in previous tweets declared themselves to be Hindu.
Jignesh Patel, AltNews.in
Trending
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Harsh Mander: The dark clouds of 1935 Nuremberg have gathered over Indian skies
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Modi pulled bahujan voters to the BJP. Many are now drifting away
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Payal Kapadia’s Cannes Grand Prix shows why free expression is vital for FTII and other institutions
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‘All We Imagine As Light’ review: A poetic exploration of love and dreams
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Opinion: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and the democratic politics of pronunciation
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Facebook takes down another influence campaign from Iran that targeted Indians
This influence campaign targeted people “across the world, although more heavily in the middle east and south Asia”.
Aria Thaker, qz.com
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Facebook plans to integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger: New York Times
The three services will continue to remain stand-alone apps, but it would allow users to communicate across the apps.
Scroll Staff
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Snapchat eyes a bigger share of the Indian market after shunning it all this while
The pressure to grow in new markets like India perhaps stems from the platform’s losing battle against Instagram.
Ananya Bhattacharya, qz.com
Video
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Watch: ‘The Garfield Movie’ screened specially for cats and their owners in Dubai cinema hall
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Cyclone Remal: Scenes of damage as heavy rain and storms batter parts of Bangladesh and West Bengal
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Watch: When the ‘All We Imagine As Light’ team danced on the red carpet before the Cannes screening
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Eco India: Is traditional building the path to eco-harmony in the Himalayas?
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Eco India, Episode 261: Can ancient know-how revive sustainable mountain ecosystems?
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‘We have learned a lesson’: Facebook says it’s trying to tackle spread of misinformation in India
An interview with a public policy manager at Facebook.
Durba Ghosh, qz.com
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A toxic work environment could be weakening the social media cell of the Congress
Instead of growing in the months before the 2019 general elections, the team is now battling attrition, according to interviews with employees.
Aria Thaker, qz.com
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The anti-social network: Four ways the US government can help fix Facebook
For years, Congress and federal regulators have allowed the world’s largest social network to police itself – with disastrous results.
Julia Angwin, ProPublica
The Reel
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Io Capitano’, a gripping tale of flight and fight
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The miraculous resurrection of Nirad Mohapatra’s Odia classic ‘Maya Miriga’
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Payal Kapadia’s Cannes Grand Prix shows why free expression is vital for FTII and other institutions
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Cannes Film Festival: Payal Kapadia is first Indian to win Grand Prix for ‘All We Imagine As Light’
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Watch: A young man is possessed by an obsessive spirit in ‘Munjya’
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How the Euro 2016 sponsors were ambushed on social media by ‘unofficial’ brands
This so-called ambush marketing is an established phenomenon, but social media has become the perfect new vehicle for it.
Simon Chadwick and Alex Fenton, The Conversation
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Four things Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg might discuss with Narendra Modi
The Silicon Valley executive is likely to seek a reduction of controls on users and on businesses.
Mayank Jain