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Indians

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23% of Indians consumed media exclusively on mobile in Q1 2025, up from 15% in Q1 2023, sharpening coverage of a vast but exposed digital audience.

Who they are

Indians appear in this coverage as India’s technology users, consumers and online participants rather than as a company or institution. Stories place them at the center of global platforms’ India strategies, domestic digital-policy initiatives, and the risks associated with pervasive smartphone and social-media use.

The recent arc

Coverage peaked in 2025Q1 and shifted toward everyday digital behavior and its consequences. EY reported that Indians spent 1.1 trillion hours on smartphones in 2024, with about 70% of time devoted to social media, gaming and video, while reporting on Kutumb examined community apps’ role in political mobilization, disinformation and hate. Reuters also tied a Q4 2024 rise in crypto-exchange trading to young people seeking supplemental income. სახელმწიფ

The tension

The central tension is between digital access and digital vulnerability. Google’s expansion of Gemini and Gemini Live in Indian languages, Apple and Google’s involvement in a proposed state-backed GOV.in app-store access plan, and the mobile-only media trend show the appeal of serving this audience; reports on scam compounds coercing Indians into online fraud, $1.3 billion in reported cyberscam losses, Pegasus-linked phone targeting, and poorly scrutinized political apps show the associated exposure.

Why it matters

If mobile-only consumption and intensive smartphone use continue to rise, India’s users will become still more consequential to platform distribution, language-localized AI and public digital infrastructure. The same concentration could amplify the stakes of app-store governance, content safeguards, privacy protections and anti-scam enforcement; whether those systems keep pace remains unresolved in the coverage.

Indians has appeared in 67 articles since 2015-09. Coverage peaked in 2025Q1 with 8 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside India, Indian, Facebook, Google.

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Coverage Timeline

2025-03-12
The Reporters' Collective

A look at community apps like Kutumb mobilizing millions of Indians for politics, spreading disinformation, and inciting hate, beyond civil watchdogs' scrutiny

Away From Scrutiny, New Networking Apps Are Mobilising Millions of Indians For Politics, Disinformation and Hate. X: @anoophilip , @reporters_co , @majuli_chapori , @reporters_co , @adiroy_notkapur , ...

2025-02-08
Bloomberg 11 related

Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old DOGE member, was fired by cybersecurity firm Path Network from an internship in June 2022 for allegedly leaking info to rivals

(Bloomberg) - Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of Elon Musk's squad that's criss-crossing US government agencies, was fired from an internship after he was accused of sharing information with a ...

CNBC 36 related

Elon Musk says he will rehire a DOGE staffer who resigned following the exposure of his posts advocating for racism and eugenics, after Trump endorsed the idea

“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.”  —  “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.”  —  “Normalize Indian hate.”  —  www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...  [embedded post] Ryan ...

2025-02-02
Scroll.in 1 related

A look at the online scam industry in Southeast Asia and how Indians became its targets; 2,358 Indians were rescued from scam compounds between 2022 and 2024

scroll.in/article/1078...  Ayush Tiwari unpacks how the global #cybercrime network works to target Indians. … X: Neha / @nehaverma107 : Crazy report‼️Hope all of our trapped country people can return ...

2025-02-01
Scroll.in 1 related

A look at the online scam industry in Southeast Asia and how Indians became its targets; 2,358 Indians were rescued from scam compounds between 2022 and 2024

Essential background on how the online scam industry sprung up and evolved - and how Indians became its targets. Bluesky: @scroll.in . X: @singhamritaa , @sheehanj920 , @scroll_in , @scroll_in , @nidh...

2024-10-10
TechCrunch 9 related

Indian insurance firm Star Health says it suffered a “malicious cyberattack”, about two weeks after hackers put 31M customers' alleged personal data on Telegram

name, DOB, address, phone, PAN card and salary for Indians is selling it for $150k. Hacker claims CISO Amarjeet Khurana sold him the data. Nothing is private in India. [image] Vansh Pandita / @vansh_p...

2024-06-12
Rest of World 2 related

Sources detail struggles at Koo, an Indian rival to X, including laying off ~80% of its workforce in recent months and being unable to raise more funds

and even a Twitter alternative. But four years after launch, the Indian company is doing layoffs and has been unable to raise more funds to keep things afloat. By @VarshaaBansal https://restofworld.or...

2023-10-12
BBC 4 related

Investigation: instant loan app scams push people in India and other countries into a spiral of debt, driving many to suicide after shame and blackmail

Horrific  —  https://www.bbc.co.uk/... X: Soutik Biswas / @soutikbbc : A blackmail scam is using instant loan apps to entrap people across India. At least 60 Indians have killed themselves after being...

2022-12-09
Reuters 7 related

NordVPN: ~5M people globally, including 600,000+ Indians, have had their data stolen and sold on the Genesis, Russian, and 2easy bot markets for ~$6 on average

Around five million people globally have had their data stolen and sold on the bot market till date, of which 600,000 are from India …

2022-03-19
Rest of World

Doctors say the rise of fantasy sports apps has led to a spike in gambling addiction in India, where gambling is illegal but fantasy gaming has no clear laws

All forms of gambling are illegal in India but there are no clear laws when it comes to fantasy gaming, which is quickly becoming a threat. Tweets: @adnanmbhat , @restofworld , @anupkaphle , @anirvan ...

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Quarterly Coverage

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TEXXR tracks 17 tech news articles mentioning Indians, dating back to January 2018. The biggest stories include Sources: India's technology ministry asked Apple, Google, and other smartphone makers to... and Sources: Apple hopes to grow sales in India by opening stores starting next year,.... Frequently covered alongside @scroll_in, Netflix, and Apple.

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2025Q2consumer +67pts; funding -17pts

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