WhatsApp told Delhi High Court last week that it will be forced to leave India if required to maintain “traceability” for messages as part of 2021's IT rules
why WhatsApp is threatening to shutdown in India Ajay Rag / The Economic Times : ETtech Explainer: WhatsApp's standoff with Centre over end-to-end encryption X: Supriya Shrinate / @SupriyaShrinate : [...
Sources and new documents detail how Facebook execs repeatedly shied away from punishing the BJP or associated accounts in India for hate speech and propaganda
SAN FRANCISCO — Nearly three years ago, Facebook's propaganda hunters uncovered a vast social media influence operation …
Source: Instagram removed 705 posts without oversight in India in September, after being flagged by Amit Malviya, the head of BJP's IT Cell, as part of XCheck
Twitter starts applying its Synthetic and Manipulated Media policy in India, as it labels a video tweeted by BJP's head of social media as “manipulated media”
Critics have been asking American tech companies to apply the same standards to the rest of the world as they do to the US. Tweets: @pranavdixit , @evelyndouek , and @pranavdixit Tweets: @pranavdixit ...
In an about face, Facebook bans a BJP politician in India for violating its hate speech policies, after reports its lobbying exec Ankhi Das defended his posts
that needs to change The Economic Times : Facebook India chief Ajit Mohan appears before Parliamentary panel The Economic Times : Facebook bans BJP politician Raja Singh for his post containing hate s...
Sources: Facebook commissioned an independent report on its impact on human rights in India, where critics say its policy officials are too close to Modi's BJP
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Facebook says it removed over 800 Indian and Pakistani Pages, accounts, and Groups for spreading misinformation and propaganda, ahead of India's election
and the company couldn't do anything about it. https://www.cnn.com/... Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : WhatsApp has NO WAY of removing disinformation from its platform like its parent company Facebook has...