Social Media
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How I got brain rot: A paratha seller from Kolkata has taken over my Instagram feed
Abhik Deb
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How I got brain rot – and I’m perfectly fine with it
Amrita Dutta
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How I staved off brain rot: Strategising over board games
Vineet Bhalla
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How I got brain rot: Watching the sketch comedy of Key and Peele
Ajay Krishnan
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How I staved off brain rot: Kicking my Twitter addiction
Shoaib Daniyal
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From Brazilian shopkeepers to Indian aunties, WhatsApp’s cultural force is to reckon with
Sonia Faleiro, Rest of World
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How WhatsApp became the world’s ‘everything app’
Issie Lapowsky, Rest of World
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Cambridge scholar trolled for PhD on politics of smell explains what her research is all about
Amelia Louks, The Conversation
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Around the world, new mobile internet subscribers are plateauing
Khadija Alam, Rest of World Russell Brandom, Rest of World
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‘Like a creeping coup’: Pakistan’s internet clampdown is throttling livelihoods
Zuha Siddiqui, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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‘Brain rot’: Oxford’s word of the year echoes digital woes of an online generation
Zulekha Shakoor Rajani
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Romania: How far-right candidate in race for presidency manipulated TikTok
Anda Iulia Solea, The Conversation
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Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw calls for stricter laws to curb ‘vulgar’ content on social media
Scroll Staff
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Screen time can involve several activities and not all of them are bad
Rinanda Shaleha, The Conversation
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Rajasthan issues tender for running YouTube channel to ‘portray positive side of government’: Report
Scroll Staff
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Hyperlinks made the internet what it is today but AI and megaplatforms could spell its extinction
Dana McKay, The Conversation George Buchanan, The Conversation
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Meta to appeal Rs 213.14 crore fine by Competition Commission of India over WhatsApp privacy policy
Scroll Staff
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Trying a ‘digital detox’? Four ways to make it a success
Kelley Cours Anderson, The Conversation Karen Anne Wallach, The Conversation
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Ahead of elections, Mauritius’s attempt to ban social media reflects dwindling rights
Roukaya Kasenally, The Converastion
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X suspends Iranian supreme leader’s Hebrew account, claims it violated rules
Scroll Staff