Merely liking a social media post is not an offence under IT Act, says Bombay HC

The High Court said that sharing or tweeting the content was an offence under Section 67 of the law as it amounted to ‘transmission’.

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· Oct 28, 2023 · 10:54 am

Body image, negative comparisons: Meta faces lawsuit over harmful effects of Facebook and Instagram

The big question will be how the social media giant handles these damaging results.

Christia Spears Brown, The Conversation

· Oct 26, 2023 · 10:00 pm

X accounts of Indian American Muslim Council, Hindus for Human Rights withheld in India

The two organisations have been carrying out advocacy on subjects related to minority rights and caste inequality in India.

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· Oct 17, 2023 · 09:19 am

India tells X, YouTube and Telegram to remove child sexual abuse material

Failure to comply with the directives would be considered a breach of the Information Technology Rules.

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· Oct 07, 2023 · 08:27 am

X account of ‘The Liver Doc’ withheld after Bengaluru court order

The court passed the order in response to a defamation suit filed pharmaceutical and wellness company Himalaya Wellness.

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· Sep 28, 2023 · 05:45 pm

UP teacher case: Several Twitter users say their posts are blocked in India due to ‘legal demand’

Actor Urmila Matondkar and journalists Rohini Singh and Gargi Rawat were among those who faced the problem.

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· Aug 26, 2023 · 06:39 pm

How to be a better traveller in the age of social media and influencer-driven tourism

The democratisation of travel has had other consequences. Several bad travel attitudes and habits have emerged as a result of social media-driven tourism.

Lauren A Siegel, The Conversation

· Jul 29, 2023 · 11:30 pm

Twitter bird logo to change to ‘X’, says Elon Musk

‘If a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make go live worldwide tomorrow’, the billionaire tweeted on Sunday.

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· Jul 23, 2023 · 03:12 pm

Twitter threatens to sue Meta over ‘copycat’ Threads app

‘Competition is fine, cheating is not,’ Twitter owner Elon Musk said even as the new social media platform garnered three crore users within 24 hours of launch.

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· Jul 07, 2023 · 01:36 pm

Meta launches Threads to rival Twitter

One crore users signed up for the new platform in the first seven hours of its launch, Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said.

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· Jul 06, 2023 · 02:36 pm

Twitter says users must be verified to use TweetDeck

The change will be effective in 30 days, the social media company said.

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· Jul 04, 2023 · 11:29 am

HC warns Facebook it may order shutdown if platform doesn’t cooperate with Indian authorities

The Karnataka High Court was dealing with the case of a man jailed in Saudi Arabia on accusations of posting objectionable content about its king and Islam.

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· Jun 16, 2023 · 01:14 pm