Tag: social media

Telegram announced in a Friday blog post that group video calls will now allow up to 1,000 users to join and participate.

Just a couple of years ago, there were concerns that Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, wouldn’t survive as a standalone company.

The popular TikTok video-sharing app was blocked Wednesday in Pakistan for a fourth time because of "inappropriate content", the country's telecommunication regulator said. 

WhatsApp has said it blocked over two million accounts in India in May and June for violating rules.

New detention center for terror suspects to be set up

Fact check website srilanka.factcresendo.com found that Sinhala was never used in the first place.

India's information technology (IT) ministry has written to all social media companies asking them to take down any content that refers to an "Indian variant" of the coronavirus

"We want to make it very clear that if citizens communicate their grievance on social media, then it cannot be said it's wrong information," said a bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud.

Over 300 social media handles being used for pushing hateful content, they say; First Information Report lodged against creators of a toolkit.

The weapon the BJP used so effectively in its rise to power is the same social media platform that it is now trying so hard to control, says Salil Tripathi, an award-winning writer based in New York in www.restofworld.org.