Tag: Social Media

Usage of social media in rural India has grown by 100 percent during the last one year with 25 million users residing in that belt, a report said here yesterday

The enactment of these rules had become necessary following widespread concerns about increasing instances of abuse of social media and digital platforms.

The year was 1986. One fine evening, Muna Patnaik, my good friend who shared a room with me at the time, came rushing into the room in a highly excited state. When I asked him the reason for his excitement, he handed me a bunch of papers instead of answering my question. As I curiously […]

By Sandeep Sahu It is a bewildering world out there. Forget the layman, even seasoned hacks of top notch media houses have been overwhelmed by the avalanche of misinformation, disinformation and motivated propaganda unleashed in both the mainstream and social media ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi stunned the nation with his announcement about the […]

By Sandeep Sahu Ah, the romance of writing in the longhand!!! The geeks of today cannot fathom this fascination for the longhand in an age when the mouse and the keyboard rule the world. But it has proved too overpowering for many old timers like this senior of mine who, even after becoming the Editor […]

Patna: A man was arrested in Bihar’s Katihar district for posting a vulgar tweet against Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi, police said on Monday. Yogi Sanjay Nath was arrested following a complaint filed to the Bihar Cyber Crime Investigation Unit by social activist Shaheen Syed. “We were directed to take action against Nath,” Katihar town […]

New Delhi: Some of the proposed government regulations for social media companies operating in India are threatening the very existence of WhatsApp in its current form, a top company executive said here on Wednesday. With over 200 million monthly active users, India is WhatsApp’s biggest market in the world. Globally, the platform has over 1.5 […]

New Delhi: Aiming to bring more transparency to ads related to politics in India ahead of the general elections, Facebook on Thursday launched a tool that will allow its users to know the people behind a particular political ad on the platform and how much they spent for it. Starting on Thursday, users will be […]

New York: Making children eat healthy food can test the patience of parents. The exposure of children to social media platforms such as photo-sharing app Instagram could make the job even tougher for them, suggests a new study. The findings published in the journal Pediatrics showed that children who view unhealthy snack images on social […]

San Francisco: Ukrainian men used online quizzes to lure more than 60,000 Facebook users into installing malicious browser extensions that leaked their profile data and friends lists to offshore servers, according to a federal lawsuit filed by the company. Andrey Gorbachov and Gleb Sluchevsky allegedly used the browser extensions to overlay their own advertisements onto […]

New Delhi: In 2014 when the world’s largest democracy organised the 16th Lok Sabha polls, the impact of social media on the voters was minimal and traditional media ruled the turf. The number of Internet users in India was around 25 crore in 2014. Today, it hovers around 55 crore. Smartphone usage crossed the 40-crore […]

Mumbai: As the digital entertainment space is booming and many Youtubers and social media influencers, like Srishti Dixit, Prajakta Koli, Gaurav Gera among others, are earning money and celebrity status, according to them, the ‘relatability’ factor of their content is the key to success. Talking about the celebrity status of social media influencers, said comedian Rohan […]

San Francisco: Facebook has blamed a server configuration change that caused the outage of its app along with Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger. “Yesterday (Wednesday), as a result of a server configuration change, many people had trouble accessing our apps and services. We’ve now resolved the issues and our systems are recovering. We’re very sorry for the […]

San Francisco: To tackle the spread of fake news via its platform, WhatsApp’s new beta version shows a test feature that would run Google-powered web-checks on images being shared on the app to verify their legitimacy. Called “Search by Image”, the feature would search an image on the web that a user either sent or […]

New Delhi: Nearly 1.5 crore young “digital natives”, set to cast their first vote in the seven-phase election starting from April 11, are busy scouting through candidates’ social media profiles to check on their backgrounds and their contribution towards the society. The digitally-savvy young voters aged 18-19, armed with cheap data plans on their smartphones, are […]