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US court slaps Meta with $567 million penalty over child safety failures, orders major platform reforms: Details

Meta faces global scrutiny after a 567 million New Mexico penalty over child safety, addictive platform features and mental health concerns.

Govt orders GitHub to remove BitChat: Read how the app allows broadcasting messages at large protest sites when mobile and internet services are blocked

The order said that the BitChat app’s design creates a substantial risk of misuse by anti-national elements, terrorist organizations, organized criminal groups, and cybercriminals.

Supreme Court bans unauthorised sharing of court hearing recordings on social media

The Supreme Court of India on Friday passed an interim order restraining the extraction, editing, dissemination, posting, re-posting, uploading or monetisation of audio and...

Why CJP protest propaganda is flooding unrelated feeds: How Meta’s algorithms and moderation rules help the global Left control the narrative

Users say CJP reels are appearing on new and unrelated Instagram accounts. Influencer coordination indicates organised amplification across Meta’s platforms and an effort to widen the pro-protest narrative.

After Meta’s WhatsApp, centre issues notices to Telegram and Signal over username feature, Zoho’s Arattai to disable it voluntarily

The Centre has expanded its scrutiny of username features on messaging platforms by sending notices to Telegram and Signal, following its earlier directive to...

Union Govt issues notice to Meta directing not to roll out new WhatsApp username feature in India, seeks reply within 3 days on why...

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has issued a formal notice to Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of WhatsApp, directing it...

Government to examine WhatsApp’s proposed username feature over concerns of impersonation and online fraud, may issue notice to Meta

The government of India is reportedly preparing to closely examine WhatsApp’s proposed username feature amid growing concerns over potential impersonation and its possible misuse...

Mexico: Suspected thieves found taped to poles with warning signs attached, people on social media credit ‘Batman of Lagos de Moreno’ for the acts

Five suspected thieves have been found taping poles and lampposts in Lagos de Moreno, a municipality in Jalisco, over the past 10 days.

Who is Prasad Vedpathak? A beef enthusiast and a Dhruv Rathee fan who ignored the Islamist motive behind Pahalgam attack but tried to pit...

From dismissing the Islamist ideology behind the Pahalgam terror attack to branding a harmless Jain religious practice as "Jain Jihad," Prasad Vedpathak's public record reveals a struggling influencer driven more by attention-seeking than principle.

Cockroach Janta Party Wikipedia page edited by a Pakistani? After allegations of gaining followers from Pakistan and Bangladesh, ‘South Asian’ page author under scanner

The Wikipedia page (English) of the Cockroach Janta Party, however, has one of its contributing authors alleged to be a Pakistani. The page was heavily edited by one Salim Bin Yousuf, who, according to his Wikipedia author page, is from “Kashmir, South Asia”.

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