social media
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Representing people of colour and folk art, #SouthAsianArtists has Twitter’s finest illustrations
Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
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Fact-check: Did India fall 45 places in Global Hunger Index rank from 2014 to 2017?
Pratik Sinha, AltNews.in
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Centre must form panel to check online games like the Blue Whale Challenge, says Supreme Court
Scroll Staff
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Dove’s ‘tone deaf’ advertisement and the racist history of skin whitening
Liz Conor, The Conversation
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What Twitter can learn from that time Coca Cola changed its formula
Collette Snowden, The Conversation
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An additional 140 characters will not help Twitter address its many challenges
Julia Gillen, The Conversation
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EU issues guidelines asking social media firms to remove hate speech
Scroll Staff
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China’s Weibo says it will reward users with iPhones if they flag ‘sensitive content’
Scroll Staff
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Twitter begins trials for 280-character limit
Scroll Staff
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Could Snapchat’s biggest selling point now be its downfall?
Rebecca Mardon, The Conversation
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What the success of a journal article supporting colonialism says about academia in a clickbait era
Max Gallien Portia Roelofs
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‘Arnab Goswami went to the moon before pseudo-liberal Armstrong’: Twitter laughs at anchor’s speech
Scroll Staff
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This Indian startup knows how to make its online content go viral – with or without Facebook
Sushma UN, qz.com
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Forget all you’ve heard about technology-challenged grandparents – this nani makes her own podcasts
Shakti Swaminathan
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‘Modi should follow me instead of those celebrating Gauri Lankesh’s murder’: Ravish Kumar
Scroll Staff
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A croissant Ganesh, a stapler dinosaur and broccoli as hair: This artist will turn anything into art
Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
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How Mumbai bakery Theobroma built a pan-India fan following, one gooey brownie at a time
Maria Thomas, qz.com
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Video: How Twitter cashed in on the hashtag created by an outsider
Ramakrishnan M Sanjeev Nair
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Islamic State’s Twitter network has been decimated, but what about accounts of other extremists?
Suraj Lakhani, The Conversation Maura Conway, The Conversation
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‘Mogambo prasann hua’: A Facebook page tries to show how much poorer the world would be without Urdu
Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri