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Social media is being blamed for fuelling riots in France: Here's why
Social media companies are once again under scrutiny, this time in France as the country's president blames TikTok, Snapchat and other platforms for helping fuel widespread riots over the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver. On Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron accused social media of playing a considerable role in encouraging copycat acts of violence as the country tries to tamp down protests that surfaced long-simmering tensions between police and young people in the country. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said police made 917 arrests on Thursday alone. More than 300 police officers have also been injured attempting to quell the rioting over the death of the teenager, who is of north African descent and has only has been identified by his first name, Nahel. Macron, who in tandem castigated video games for the rioting, said the French government would work with social media sites to take down the most sensitive content and identify users who call for ...
Twitter blocks people from viewing tweets, profiles unless registered
In April, Musk temporarily disabled likes, replies and retweets if a tweet had a link to Substack, the newsletter platform. After complaints, Musk then reversed that change
Twitch's new programme to help some streamers make more money
Streaming platform Twitch has announced a new programme 'Partner Plus' which will help streamers to make more money who meet the qualification criteria
Facebook, Instagram suffer global outage for more than 2 hours again
Earlier this month, Instagram briefly went down for thousands of users globally, including in India, after it faced a technical issue that impacted its services
Instagram broadcast channels rolling out globally with a new feature
Meta has announced that it is rolling out the broadcast channels on Instagram globally, along with a new 'Collaborators' feature which allows creators to invite other creators (or fans)
Govt's relationship with media platform is simply via prism of laws: MoS IT
The government's relationship with any social media platform is simply through the prism of compliance of law and rules, and therefore there is nothing personal or adversarial against one platform or the other, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said. The platforms have to respect the Indian laws, the Minister of State for IT and Electronics asserted. Chandrasekhar, who was speaking at the inaugural edition of FinancialExpress.com's Digital Bharat Economy Conclave 2023 on Wednesday, made it clear that the government's relationship with any social media platform is simply through the prism of compliance of law and rules, and thus there is nothing personal or adversarial against one platform or the other. "But we certainly and consistently ask from these platforms to respect the Indian laws," he said. The minister also rebuffed claims of an alleged data breach of the CoWin platform (the Covid vaccination portal). "I would like to emphasise that there was no breach of the CoWin
WhatsApp will roll out video messages feature on iOS, Android beta
Recipients will be able to identify when they receive a video message making sure that it has been recently recorded, which will greatly increase its authenticity
No other platform has the power Twitter does: CEO Linda Yaccarino
"No other platform has this power and no other place has the people I've met this week. Stay tuned -- we're making history," she said in a tweet
RBI not planning to issue norms to regulate social media influencers
The Reserve Bank is not planning to issue any separate norms to regulate social media influencers pedalling their personal views on the financial markets since sector watchdog Sebi is already on it. Addressing media after the monetary policy announcement on Thursday wherein the central bank has for the second time in a row left the key policy rates unchanged, governor Shaktikanta Das said, "The RBI is not planning to issue any separate guidelines to regulate financial market influencers since the Sebi is already doing so". Sebi has been planning to direct brokers and mutual funds to limit the use of financial influencers to curb the spread of financial advice via social media advertising and marketing campaigns. Social media influencers peddle personal views or those paying them on financial markets or stocks. Since January 2022, Sebi has been saying it would come out with regulations to tame the so-called financial influencers, it has not yet issued anything but has been acting ..
LinkedIn introduces voluntary ID verification feature for Indian users
Verification in India will be carried out by a third-party company and will ensure privacy
Linda Yaccarino to take over as new Twitter CEO today, hires key aide
"I've long been inspired by your vision to create a brighter future. I'm excited to help bring this vision to Twitter and transform this business together," she posted on Twitter
Instagram likely to launch Twitter-like micro-blogging app by June end
"Create with text and attach links, photos and videos. Engage with likes and replies to deepen connections with friends, fans and other creators. Bring your fans with you"
6 in 10 users took a break from Twitter in past year in US: Survey
Among current and recent Twitter users, women are more likely than men to say they have taken a break from the platform in the past year (69% vs 54%)
Meta patches Facebook bug that sent unwanted friend requests to users
According to some users, Facebook sent a request to a person they were attempting to block, the report mentioned
Elon Musk appointing NBC's Linda as new Twitter CEO won't change much
In about six weeks, Musk will move to executive chairman and chief technology officer, overseeing product, software and sysops, he wrote on Twitter
Over half of Twitter Blue's earliest subscribers not paying anymore
Reports last year showed that a total of 150,000 users originally signed up for Twitter Blue within just a few days of its launch in November
Elon Musk cuts down parental leaves of Twitter employees: Report
The two weeks of paid leave will be topped up to meet the minimum requirements of the region where the employees work
WhatsApp bans record of over 4.7 mn bad accounts in India in March
The IT Ministry last month notified to establish three GACs as required under the recently amended IT Rules, 2021
Instagram will soon let users add songs in photo carousel: Details here
The new tool will make it more fun to browse through multiple pictures while the music plays in the background
Twitter to allow publishers to charge users per article basis starting May
Since taking over the social media firm in October, Musk has swiftly moved through a number of product and organizational changes
