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News Reports

Kangana Ranaut’s Twitter account restored, was banned in May 2021

OpIndia Staff - 24 January, 2023

Kangana Ranaut's Twitter account was permanently banned in May 2021.

News Reports

Centre releases endorsement guidelines for Celebrities and Social Media Influencers to ensure that they don’t mislead consumers

OpIndia Staff - 20 January, 2023

Department of Consumer Affairs released the guide ‘Endorsements Know-hows!’ for celebrities, influencers and virtual influencers on social media platforms

Politics

Samajwadi Party’s IT cell member Manish Jagan Agarwal arrested for posting offensive tweets, party workers protest

OpIndia Staff - 8 January, 2023

Following the arrest of Manish Jagan Agarwal, Samajwadi Party immediately tried to help their member and demanded his release.

News Reports

Kerala: 59 women beat up a man for allegedly circulating morphed images of a woman on social media, 11 arrested

ANI - 8 January, 2023

All of the accused are members of Emperor Emmanuel Retreat centre in Chalakkudy of Thrissur district.

News Reports

Twitter data leaked, leaves 23.5 crore users vulnerable to hackers: Reports

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2023

Alon Gal added that hackers will also attempt to compromise political accounts and crypto Twitter accounts using the leaked data.

News Reports

Twitter logs out users worldwide, outage remains for over an hour

OpIndia Staff - 29 December, 2022

Some Twitter users were not able to log in for a few hours earlier in the day. Many users have been also facing the log in issues for two-factor authorisation.

World

Purported audio clip of ‘phone sex’ by ex-Pakistani PM Imran Khan where he claims to be humping like a camel goes viral

OpIndia Staff - 20 December, 2022

Imran Khan was allegedly heard talking about the 'pleasure points' of the woman, and his 'penetration skills'.

Social Media

Elon Musk creates a Twitter poll to ask if he should continue to head Twitter, public said no, here is what may follow

OpIndia Staff - 19 December, 2022

The most expected step is to hand Twitter over to Jack Dorsey once again, Twitter founder, and more importantly, a good friend of Elon Musk.

News Reports

‘Social media driven by narrowness of view’: Shah Rukh Khan amid outrage over Besharam song in Pathaan, says cinema can sustain counter-narrative

OpIndia Staff - 15 December, 2022

Shah Rukh Khan criticises social media during inauguration of Kolkata Film Festival, says Cinema can be counter-narrative

Opinions

Twitter is making everyone a ‘fact-checker’ with ‘Community Notes’ rollout, but there are problems and India-specific issues that need to be discussed

Nupur J Sharma - 13 December, 2022

Community Notes was rolled out globally over the weekend, allowing users to enrol in the program to add 'helpful context' and additional information to public tweets.

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