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Meta removes 400 Facebook accounts linked to India-based 'hack-for-hire' firm 'BellTrox'

Hiding under the radar for some time after its activities were exposed last year, BellTroX InfoT…

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A UN report says India's new IT rules do not conform with international human rights norms

The observations were made in Mandates of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection…

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Indian government to ban 54 Chinese apps posing threat to national security

The sources also said that many of these applications are refurbished versions of apps already…

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Facebook, Insta and Google took down over 21 million posts in May while WhatsApp and Twitter banned over 19 lakh ‘bad’ accounts

May has been a busy month for social media platforms in India. Between Meta-owned Facebook and Inst…

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Indian Army sources say the ban on use of Facebook and Instagram by the forces has been successful

The ban imposed by the Indian Army on the usage of 89 smartphone applications, including social med…

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WhatsApp India banned over 2 million accounts in December 2021

The company said that it also received 528 grievance reports in the same month from the country …

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PUBG Mobile and PUBG Mobile Lite cease operations in India just ahead of Halloween

PUBG Mobile and PUBG Mobile Lite will no longer work for gamers in India starting from Friday, the …

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A professor was murdered after a Facebook post branded him a traitor. Was Facebook complicit in his death?

Facebook's "trusted partners" in Ethiopia say the platform was slow to reply to urgent hate speech …

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has six months to answer these five questions

Facebook’s Oversight Board upheld the decision to suspend the account of former US President Donald…

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Meta removes over 23.6 million posts on Facebook and Instagram in India in February

Between February 1-28, Meta received 478 reports through the Indian grievance mechanism, and res…

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EXCLUSIVE: Instagram Reels is being quietly tested in India just days after the TikTok ban

Facebook had recently shut down its TikTok clone app Lasso and was concentrating on ‘Reels’ to capt…

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It’s official – Instagram Reels sets out to capture the TikTok market in India

India is the fourth country to start testing Reels after Brazil, France and Germany.

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EXCLUSIVE: WhatsApp’s Grievance Officer in India quits within six months

Advocate Paresh B Lal — who was appointed as WhatsApp’s Grievance and Nodal officer in June this ye…

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Indian government has no plans yet to make Google and Facebook pay for news

“Personally, there is no proposal for enactment of a law by this Ministry in this regard,” Raj…

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Facebook reportedly hasn't banned a violent religious extremist group in India because it fears for its business prospects and staff's safety

Facebook has been reluctant to enforce its rules in India over fears of political and even physical…

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WhatsApp banned two million Indian accounts during May 15-June 15 period

The new IT rules require large digital platforms -- with over five million users -- to publish c…

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After Trump's Twitter ban, critics want other populists like Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro and India's Narendra Modi booted from social media

Critics see tech platforms' Trump ban as an opportunity to deplatform other populist politicians wh…

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Minds, an open-source social media platform wants to fill the void caused by the ban on Chinese apps

The platform which describes itself as a "crypto social network" that upholds internet freedom i…

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Indians can't get enough of Facebook despite all controversies

Facebook’s popularity might not be growing at home, but it’s surging in countries like India, Indon…