News Parliament Questions: Tracking manipulative apps, social media misuse, not Centre’s duty: MeitY A roundup of important questions in Parliament on tech: no data on social media misuse with Centre, rising cybercrimes in India "cannot be verified" Vallari SanzgiriJuly 29, 2022
News A political commentator attacked a Madras HC judge on Twitter, here’s what happened next Justice GR Swaminathan of the Madras HC initiated suo moto contempt of court proceedings against Savukku Shankar for tweets questioning his integrity Sarvesh MathiJuly 20, 2022
News Can the Government’s Appellate Committee Compel Social Media Platforms to Host Content? India's IT Rules mandate a GAC to address user 'grievances' , but is re-instatement of content removed by a platform a power it should... Guest AuthorJuly 20, 2022
News Why did WhatsApp ban 19 lakh Indian users in May? WhatsApp revealed the figures as part of mandatory compliance reports by social media intermediaries under IT Rules 2021 Sashwata SahaJuly 4, 2022
News China wants online influencers to be “qualified” on certain topics: What is it about? Beijing's new rules are aimed at influencers in certain domains like finance law, health, etc. as part of a larger policy on controlling internet... Sashwata SahaJuly 2, 2022
News What is CrowdTangle and why is Meta planning to retire it? Meta is planning to discontinue the social media research tool CloudTangle, meant for publishers and fact-checkers, etc. What was behind the decision? Sashwata SahaJune 28, 2022
News Instagram testing new age verification mechanisms that don’t involve IDs Instagram testing social vouching and AI-based video selfies as alternatives to IDs for age verification. Sarvesh MathiJune 27, 2022
News Why the I&B Ministry wants to stop TV, social media ads promoting online betting sites The Ministry Information and Broadcasting has asked TV and social media to remove ads promoting online betting sites Anushka JainJune 14, 2022
News Europe’s new NIS2 cybersecurity directive covers more sectors, increases accountability The European Union has expanded the scope of its cybersecurity directives, NIS-2, to cover sectors as food, post, and space, and digital services Sashwata SahaJune 13, 2022
News Instagram Announces Updates to Sensitive Content Control Social media platform Instagram updated its 'sensitive content control' feature that lets users moderate content on their feed Aarathi GanesanJune 8, 2022