Facebook mistakenly deletes many news articles, claiming they violate community standards

The company denied the bug came about due to changes to its workforce amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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· Mar 18, 2020 · 09:32 am

Maharashtra: Order to ban 3 TikTok accounts for posting about Tabrez Ansari withdrawn after 8 months

The accounts of Hasnain Khan, Shadan Farooqui and Faisal Shaikh were suspended after Maharashtra government sought it on a complaint from a Shiv Sena leader.

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· Mar 12, 2020 · 08:37 pm

How Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop and others in the wellness industry use pseudoscience to make profits

It serves to highlight the toxic side of influencer culture.

Stephanie Alice Baker, The Conversation

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Chris Rojek, The Conversation

· Feb 23, 2020 · 09:30 pm

WhatsApp back online after suffering global outage

The problem seemed to have started around 4 pm Indian Standard Time, with users, including many in India, struggling to send messages.

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· Jan 19, 2020 · 07:46 pm

Instagram, Facebook, Messenger face outages across the world

According to a report, the affected areas include the United States East Coast, Central Europe, and East Asia, and India.

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· Nov 28, 2019 · 11:11 pm

Mastodon suspends Assam Police account

The police claimed the suspension was beyond rational or logical reasoning.

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· Nov 17, 2019 · 10:11 am

Twitter India dismisses allegations of bias, says it enforces rules impartially

The social media firm, which has come under fire for suspending certain accounts, said the rules get implemented ‘regardless of users’ belief or background’.

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· Nov 07, 2019 · 05:33 pm

What do we do about bigoted anti-Muslim hashtags trending on Twitter?

Many have argued that the ‘trending’ bar needs to go away, and we must have a better conversation about social media algorithms.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Oct 22, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Social media regulation: Centre asks Supreme Court for three more months to frame rules

The government told the top court that internet had become a potent tool for causing ‘unimaginable disruption to the democratic polity’.

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· Oct 21, 2019 · 11:01 pm

Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook policy of allowing politicians to run lie in advertisements

The social media company’s founder said people would not ‘want to live in a world where you can only say things that tech companies decide are 100% true’.

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· Oct 18, 2019 · 04:55 pm

European Union’s top court says member countries can ask Facebook to take down content

The top court’s order came after a former leader of Austria’s Green Party demanded that Facebook remove derogatory remarks about her from its platform.

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· Oct 03, 2019 · 06:48 pm

Twitter and Tweetdeck hit by outages, company says service will be normal soon

Many users were unable to log in to TweetDeck and they were redirected to Twitter instead.

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· Oct 02, 2019 · 12:31 pm