IANS- As disinformation related to COVID-19 is spreading faster than the virus itself, the microblogging platform Twitter feels that its work has never been more critical and its service has never been in higher demand than ever before globally, including in India. The power of a uniquely open service during a public health emergency is […]
IANS- US President Donald Trump lashed out at social networking platforms, especially Twitter, during the social media summit at the White House for censoring Republican views and blocking Americans from following him. As the summit was about to begin on Thursday, Twitter went down for nearly an hour. The outage was due to an […]
IANS- Radicalization in the digital era is not new, but now one of Twitter’s key executives has said that there’s “no doubt” that social media content, in some cases, contributes to radicalization. Vijaya Gadde, Legal, Public Policy & Trust and Safety Lead at Twitter, said the organization has policies in place to combat such […]
indica News Bureau – As part of their effort to reduce the spread of dangerous anti-vaccination propaganda, Facebook and its photo-messaging app Instagram will no longer allow advertisements that include misinformation about vaccines. The company has decided to take action against user accounts which promote vaccine misinformation that have been publicly identified by the World […]
IANS- Hours after Twitter declined to appear before a parliamentary committee on information technology on Monday citing short notice, the committee headed by Anurag Thakur has hinted that it will initiate a breach of privilege action against it and its brass. “Of course it can be an issue of breach of parliamentary privilege. They […]
IANS – A bug in Twitter exposed private tweets of some Android users for over five years when they made changes in their settings, like changing the email address linked to their accounts. According to the micro-blogging platform, the bug (now fixed) disabled the “Protect your Tweets” setting if certain account changes were made […]
Ritu Jha – Several Indian American Google employees have openly joined Amnesty International in calling on Google to cancel project Dragonfly. The original letter, put together by Amnesty International along with 14 other human rights organizations this August and addressed to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, described concerns about reports that Google is developing a […]
They describe their own work, new technologies and the shifting market at a Santa Clara conference Ritu Jha “We cannot change the world but be a part of the world and come together.” That was the benign message from Parag Agarwal, chief technology officer, Twitter, at the 2018 Indian Institute of Technology Bay […]
