Social Media

US Midterm elections: Facebook blocks 30 accounts from its portal, 85 from Instagram believed to be ‘linked to foreign entities’

Facebook, in a blog post Monday, stated that it had blocked some 30 accounts on its platform and 85 accounts on social networking...

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Home Secy of India meets social media representatives, asks them to ‘prevent misuse’

Union Home Secretary of India Rajiv Gauba on Thursday met representatives from social media giants and asked them to prevent misuse of...

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Palestinian protester’s image goes viral on Twitter, hailed as ‘iconic’

A photograph of a young, shirtless protester in Gaza holding a Palestinian flag with one hand and swinging a slingshot over his head...

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Kashmir based online magazine’s page taken down by Facebook for ‘going against community standards’

Recent reports have revealed that moderators at Facebook are protecting far-right activists by preventing their pages from getting deleted even after they violate...

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Ahead of US midterm elections, Twitter cracks down on fake accounts

Social media giant Twitter, ahead of US November midterm elections removed upto 50 accounts in August after it was revealed that they had...

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Facebook reveals 50 million user accounts breached, takes down ‘view as’ feature as precaution

Social media giant Facebook disclosed Friday that almost 50 million users’ accounts had been breached by hackers, in yet another escalating blow...

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‘My Prime Minster is a thief’: #Mera_PM_Chor_Hai trends on twitter following Rafale scandal expose

Opposition parties in India on Friday targeted Narendra Modi after a French media house quoted the former French President Francois Hollande saying...