SAN FRANCISCO — Some Facebook users in the US are being served a prompt that asks if they are worried that someone they know might be becoming an extremist via suspicious online posts or activities, as the social network aims to tackle extremism on its platform. Other users are being notified that they may have […]
NEW DELHI — Micro-blogging site Twitter has revealed two concepts for upcoming features, including ‘trusted friends, that would allow users to target tweets toward specific audiences without having to switch accounts or change privacy settings. The first would enable people to designate “trusted friends” so some tweets would only be visible to that group. The […]
NEW DELHI — Technology giants Facebook and Google will soon publish reports, as mandated by the new Information Technology Rules, providing information about the actions they took on user complaints in India. While Facebook said on Tuesday it will publish an interim report on July 2 as mandated by the IT rules, Google will publish […]
NEW DELHI — WhatsApp platform is not new to fake messages and the recent one circulating among the app users claims that the government is apparently offering free internet access to people. According to the fake message, the government will be giving these services to 100 million users for three months. Taking note of this […]
NEW DELHI — Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) has released new guidelines for social media influencers who upload content on various social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. According to the new guidelines, influencers will now have to add a disclosure label to clarify if a post includes paid advertisements. Set to come […]
NEW DELHI – The country’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki is collaborating with manufacturers to boost production of oxygen generators in the country. Maruti has tied up with three small-scale companies — Airox Nigen Equipments, SAM Gas Products and Gaskon Engineers — for producing oxygen generators. The company on Thursday said that as part of the […]
NEW DELHI – Social networking giant Facebook on Wednesday said it will now allow users on its platform as well as those on Instagram to hide their public ‘like’ counts. This is part of the company’s efforts to give people control over their experience, a statement said. “We tested hiding like counts to see if […]
BENGALURU – Google is committed to complying with India’s revised IT rules that came into effect Wednesday, Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai said on Thursday. “It’s obviously early days and our local teams are very engaged. You know we comply with local laws and we will approach it with the same framework,” Pichai said in […]
Facebook has announced it will take “stronger” action against users repeatedly sharing misinformation on the social media platform. Facebook will reduce the distribution of all posts in its news feed from a user account if it frequently shares content that has been flagged as false by one of the company’s fact-checking partners, the social media […]
NEW DELHI – The deadline to comply with the new legal rules meant for big social media platforms, which were issued by the government three months ago, is ending on Tuesday, threatening the operations of the likes of Twitter in India. According to top official sources, social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and others, […]