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

Twitter restores Harsh Mander’s Karwan-e-Mohabbat account a day after suspending it

Karwan-e-Mohabbat is a people’s campaign for solidarity that reaches out to survivors of lynchings and hate crimes.

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· Sep 28, 2019 · 08:26 am

‘Technology has taken dangerous turn’: SC asks Centre to frame rules to check social media misuse

The Centre has been asked to inform the court within three weeks about the time needed to come up with the regulations.

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· Sep 24, 2019 · 01:59 pm

Social media firms cannot escape liability for fake news spread on their platforms, says Madras HC

The bench was hearing a petition seeking the linking of people’s social media accounts with Aadhaar or any other government-verified identity card.

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· Sep 21, 2019 · 06:10 pm

Facebook to set up oversight board to govern content, it can overrule Mark Zuckerberg too

The board will have up to 40 members, who will serve three-year terms.

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· Sep 18, 2019 · 04:29 pm

Facebook, Instagram now let Indian users add music to their stories

The company had launched the music feature for stories in a few select markets in June 2018.

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· Sep 17, 2019 · 02:45 pm

Twitter suspends 333 Pakistani handles for writing on situation in Kashmir

The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority has raised the matter with the social media firm.

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· Sep 05, 2019 · 04:22 pm

Twitter launches ‘Ashoka Chakra’ emoji to mark India’s 73rd year of independence

The emoji will be live until August 18 and will be available in English and some regional languages including Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali and Oriya.

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· Aug 14, 2019 · 03:47 pm

US Federal Trade Commission fines Facebook $5 billion for its privacy practices

However, two Democratic Party commissioners claimed that the penalty was inadequate.

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· Jul 24, 2019 · 07:12 pm

What’s not to like? Instagram’s new trial will be beneficial for the mental health of its users

Receiving loads of likes on the social media platform had become a kind of public validation. Hiding them will reduce the social pressure on users.

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· Jul 19, 2019 · 11:30 pm

TikTok ban: SC refuses to hear company’s plea seeking transfer of cases from Madras High Court

TikTok’s counsel had argued that the cases should be transferred to the top court for ‘final and expeditious disposal’.

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· Jul 04, 2019 · 01:44 pm