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.

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· 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

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