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...
Research: YouTube and Koo, an Indian X-style alternative, are allowing hateful content that violates their policies, less than a month before national elections
Vittoria Elliott / Wired : X: @daithaigilbert X: David Gilbert / @daithaigilbert : With a month to go before the Indian election, one of the most important votes of 2024, new research shows that hate...
Koo, an app touted as India's answer to Twitter, has self-verification features that Elon Musk may want but shows risks of handing over data to the government
Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World : Tweets: @restofworld , @restofworld , and @cengizyar Tweets: @restofworld : Koo, India's homegrown alternative to Twitter, is letting users “self-verify.” Experts...
Koo, the Indian microblogging app that has positioned itself as a government-friendly alternative to Twitter in India, is taking a similar approach in Nigeria
Rest of World : Tweets: @anirvan , @architmeta , @peterguest , @cengizyar , @nilchristopher , @iatalkspace , @yinkawrites , and @evelyndouek Tweets: Anirvan Chatterjee / @anirvan : “Just under a week...
Interview with founder of Koo, a microblogging service for regional language speakers in India that recently passed 3M users, fueled in large part by Modi's BJP
Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World : Tweets: @restofworld , @evelyndouek , @ndcnn , @marklittlenews , @anupkaphle , @restofworld , @anupkaphle , @bibhasdn , @restofworld , @cengizyar , @leomschwartz ...
For many services, moderating content has become an existential crisis; some services are even establishing rules that pre-empt the need for costly moderation
Content moderation rules used to be a question of taste. Now, they can determine a service's prospects for survival. Tweets: @mims , @wiczipedia , @roncharles , @mims , @maxabrahms , @aditi_muses , @...
Interview with founder of Koo, a microblogging service for regional language speakers in India that recently passed 3M users, fueled in large part by Modi's BJP
Aprameya Radhakrishna made Koo for local-language speakers. Overnight, Hindu nationalists drove its success. — • BANGALORE, INDIA Tweets: @marklittlenews , @restofworld , @anupkaphle , @cengizyar ,...
Sources: Facebook is building an audio chat product, currently in the earliest stages of development, that is similar to Clubhouse
The increasingly popular social media app is allowing conspiracy theories … Darragh Murphy / Laptop Mag : What is Clubhouse and why is Facebook cloning the voice chat app? The Economic Times : ETtech ...