2023-08-07
Are victims of Indian government's Twitter censorship also covered under this fund? What about thousand of critics that your platform has silenced in response to notices sent by Prime Minister Modi's government?
Reuters
Elon Musk claims X will fund the legal bills of people who have been “unfairly treated” by their employer “due to posting or liking something on this platform”
2023-04-28
India is among the top 3 countries that have sent the most censorship requests since Musk took ownership of Twitter on October 27th, 2022. And @elonmusk has not refused even a single request! https://restofworld.org/...
Rest of World
Since Elon Musk's takeover, Twitter has received 971 government orders globally and has fully complied with 808, an 83% compliance rate, vs. ~50% before Musk
2023-03-27
India is becoming a global leader in censorship, and big tech is complying with its diktats. This week, on the Indian government's legal requests @Twitter @elonmusk blocked 122 accounts belonging to journalists, authors, and politicians. https://restofworld.org/...
Rest of World
After India's legal orders this week, Twitter blocked the tweets of 122 users, including reporters and politicians, from Indian users; it used to push back more
https://restofworld.org/... Lauren Weinstein / @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org : Instead of pushing back as #Twitter used to do, Elon now bends over for India's requests to bl...
2023-03-07
All the social media companies are complicit in violence against religious minorities in India. @Meta @instagram @YouTube @elonmusk https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram helped Monu Manesar, an Indian cow vigilante wanted in connection to two murders, thrive despite violent and Islamophobic posts
Wall Street Journal :
2023-02-14
The Hindu far-right government of @narendramodi keeps giving itself new powers, and Big Tech like @Twitter @elonmusk @Meta @YouTube keeps giving in. https://www.wired.com/...
Wired
A look at the Modi administration's attempts to strengthen government control over the internet in India and its battle with Big Tech, which keeps giving in
The Modi administration keeps giving itself new powers, and Big Tech keeps giving in. — Akash Banerjee isn't sure whether he's allowed …
2022-10-11
“They try to target journalists, public intellectuals, or HR activists on the ground raising issues of civil importance, then book them on a case and send in the agencies, who are being weaponised against anyone,” @vinodjose told @FT. https://www.ft.com/...
The Wire
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
“They try to target journalists, public intellectuals, or HR activists on the ground raising issues of civil importance, then book them on a case and send in the agencies, who are being weaponised against anyone,” @vinodjose told @FT. https://www.ft.com/...
@andymstone
Meta says documentation in The Wire's article alleging Instagram removed posts flagged by a BJP member in India without oversight “appears to be fabricated”
@JeffHorwitz Where to even begin with this story?! X-check has nothing to do with the ability to report posts. The posts in question were surfaced for review by automated systems, ...
2022-07-15
A business-as-usual scenario without effective content moderation on Meta's platform such as Facebook has serious human rights implications for Indian minorities, and for India as a democracy.
Reuters
Meta releases its first annual human rights report, covering 2020 and 2021 due diligence and summarizing a controversial human rights impact assessment of India
Katie Paul / Reuters :
2021-11-03
Facebook is aware of the danger and prevalence of the Love Jihad conspiracy theory on its platform but has done little to act on it, according to internal Facebook documents seen by TIME, @billyperrigo reports. https://time.com/...
TIME
Sources: Facebook has done little to act on the Islamophobic “Love Jihad” conspiracy theory on its platform in India due to “political sensitivities”
In a video posted to Facebook in November 2020, an extremist priest called for Hindus to rise up and begin killing Muslims in India. Tweets: @jason_kint , @damomusings , @veramberg...
2021-07-19
Among the journalists hacked by Pegasus were Siddharth Varadarajan and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, a co-founder and a reporter at the Indian news website the Wire. Thakurta was hacked in 2018 while he was working on an investigation into Hindu nationalists. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Washington Post
Investigation: Israel-based NSO Group's malware infected 23 phones belonging to government officials, reporters, execs, and activists, out of 67 checked
Dana Priest, a reporter at The Washington Post for 30 years, covers national security issues. Recently, she has investigated Russian …
2021-06-04
In one internal post, reviewed by The New York Times, an employee with family in India accused Facebook of “being afraid” that Mr. Modi would ban the company from doing business in the country. “We can't act or make decisions out of fear,” he wrote. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Facebook employees say discontent at the company has surged over its handling of government demands to take down content in India and Israel
2021-04-12
“I love writing about tech. But covering how a Hindu nationalist government is using it to destroy a secular democracy isn't what I signed up for,” Pranav Dixit writes. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
BuzzFeed News
Reporting on tech from India “feels like having a front-row seat to the country's rapid slide into authoritarianism”, as Big Tech companies remain silent
I love writing about tech. But covering how a Hindu nationalist government is using it to destroy a secular democracy isn't what I signed up for.