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WhatsApp phone numbers of about 500 mn users leaked: Report
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WhatsApp phone numbers of 487 million users have been stolen and put on sale on a "well-known" hacking community forum, the media reported.
According to...
Meta’s non-binding “Oversight Board” to probe its decision to allow sexual assault video posted by ‘Dalit’ Instagram account
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Meta's independent Oversight Board said on Thursday that it has taken a fresh case for consideration on a video depicting sexual assault in Bharat,...
Official orders creation of dummy social media accounts to publicize govt schemes: Rajasthan
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An order issued by the Sawai Madhopur Statistics Department to appoint Yuva Mitras to promote the public welfare schemes of the state government by...
CJI Ramana hits out at electronic and social media ‘trials’, says media runs ‘kangaroo courts’ at times
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Chief Justice N.V. Ramana on Tuesday observed that independent journalism is the backbone of democracy and the media must confine itself to honest journalism...
FB, Insta allow posts asking for Putin’s death in specific countries
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In a rare exception amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Meta is allowing posts with violent speech toward Russian soldiers on Facebook and Instagram...
Thirty years after its defeat, the Khalistan Movement fights on in Cyberspace
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The death threats have definitely gone upscale. Fifteen years ago, they were quite uncouth. As one put it: “time to find out where Milewski...
Aryan Khan drug case: BYJU’s temporarily halts ads featuring Shah Rukh Khan
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IPO-bound edtech major Byju's has temporarily halted advertisements featuring its brand ambassador and Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, as his son Aryan Khan undergoes...
Facebook allows post which says ‘RSS threatening to kill Sikhs, repeat 1984’
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The independent content Oversight Board on Thursday said it has overturned Facebook's original decision to remove a post about the Sikh community in Bharat...
The Anatomy of Pakistan’s 5th generation warfare
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A study done at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has revealed that fake news travels six times faster than the real news on social media....
Maridhas Vs DMK: the sham of liberals’ freedom of expression exposed
Article 19(1) (a) of the Constitution of Bharat states that “all citizens shall have the right to freedom of speech and expression”. This right...