Social media
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$500,000 for an Instagram post: The Kardashians’ fortunes are no longer dependent on their TV show
Ellis Cashmore, The Conversation
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Video game clips, old footage go viral claiming to show Indian Air Force attack on Jaish camp
Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in Pratik Sinha, AltNews.in
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Oscars 2019: Twitter boos ‘Green Book’, Lady Gaga and Billy Porter’s tuxedo dress win fans
Scroll Staff
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More than Facebook or WhatsApp, fake news on traditional media can sway Indians, finds study
Ananya Bhattacharya, qz.com
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An Indian artist is drawing attention to women’s fraught relationship with their breasts
Preetha Banerjee
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Editors Guild seeks police action for journalists’ abuse, asks social media firms to be responsible
Scroll Staff
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As CRPF mourns its dead, it also fights fake news: ‘Our jawans did not die to spark communal hatred’
Nivedita Niranjankumar, BoomLive.in
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Clean the Nation: Inside the Facebook group that plotted to get ‘anti-nationals’ sacked, prosecuted
Mridula Chari Vijayta Lalwani Arunabh Saikia S Senthalir
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Pulwama attack: CRPF warns against circulating fake photos of deceased personnel
Scroll Staff
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Ranveer lookalikes to small-town stars: What you need to know about viral video app TikTok
Priyali Prakash
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The Daily Fix: Instead of scolding Twitter, India needs a real conversation about the internet
Rohan Venkataramakrishnan
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Twitter says it’s willing to participate but needs more time to appear before Parliamentary panel
Scroll Staff
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Twitter says it doesn’t enforce policies based on political ideology after being accused of bias
Scroll Staff
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Twitter officials summoned by parliamentary panel on February 11 to discuss use of social media
Scroll Staff
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Facebook takes down another influence campaign from Iran that targeted Indians
Aria Thaker, qz.com
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‘Budget 2019 is for middle-class and Uri,’ says Twitter after Piyush Goyal praises film in speech
Scroll Staff
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The ‘digital detox’ is a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist
David A Ellis, The Conversation Brittany I Davidson, The Conversation
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Paedophile hunters: A rise in citizen-led policing is putting life and laws of justice at risk
Joe Purshouse, The Conversation
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Why millions of Indians could easily connect to the internet – but don’t
Ananya Bhattacharya, qz.com
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Madhya Pradesh government writes to Delhi Police against arrest of blogger Abhishek Mishra
Scroll Staff