Social media
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Facebook launches new design, focuses on groups, private messaging
Scroll Staff
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Sri Lanka attacks: Ban on social media lifted 10 days after explosions killed 253 people
Scroll Staff
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Fact check: Are these Italian historical buildings owned by Rahul Gandhi as claimed by man in video?
Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in
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Why a Catholic school in Manipur’s Chandel district was set on fire
Arunabh Saikia
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Twitter’s new feature to allow users to report tweets that mislead voters
Scroll Staff
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Watch: Millennials ace social media, but can they open a can of paint? Jimmy Kimmel checks
Scroll Staff
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Why ban TikTok alone when almost every social network has a porn problem?
Ananya Bhattacharya, qz.com
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The right way to mourn the TikTok ban is with a TikTok video. Watch
Scroll Staff
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Facebook says millions of Instagram passwords stored in plain text, not ‘tens of thousands’
Scroll Staff
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Fact check: Will all banks be closed every Saturday starting June 1?
Jignesh Patel, AltNews.in
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'I am nothing without my following': Here's why Instagram influencer Jessy Taylor broke down
Scroll Staff
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Scientists are studying your tweets, YouTube videos, Instagram posts. Is that ethical?
Casey Fiesler
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‘Behave responsibly’: TikTok is asking Indians to guard against fake news this election season
Aria Thaker, qz.com
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Fact check: Did a pre-poll survey by the BBC predict a thumping win for BJP in Lok Sabha 2019?
Arjun Sidharth, AltNews.in
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Automated bots manipulated Twitter traffic before Narendra Modi’s visit to Tamil Nadu: US think-tank
Aria Thaker, qz.com
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More fact-checking, dedicated teams: Facebook details strategy to curb misinformation during polls
Scroll Staff
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SC refuses urgent hearing of plea challenging Madras High Court order banning TikTok app
Scroll Staff
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Beware Indian social media influencers promoting brands. They may be resorting to fakery
Durba Ghosh, qz.com
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The Daily Fix: Madras High Court's knee-jerk TikTok ban is another attack on free speech in India
Shoaib Daniyal
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If Mark Zuckerberg wants to fix the internet, he must do more than just talk about ‘new rules’
Andrew Quodling, The Conversation