Abusers don’t need to be technologically sophisticated, according to experts. A past or present relationship with the victim can open the doors to many stealthy forms of abuse. Abusers might have set up email or bank accounts and passwords for the victim and continue to enter the accounts even after the relationship has ended. … Read more
Google is in preliminary talks to acquire regional language social media platform ShareChat, according to two people privy to the development. The Bengaluru-based startup, which also counts Twitter as an early backer, could be valued at about $ 1.03 billion, sources said. The internet giant is currently conducting a due diligence exercise after having signed … Read more
Beautiful Asian woman watching a video live streaming on her phone, emoticons concept By Shriya RoyThe terms ‘misinformation’, ‘fake news’, ‘hate speech’ and ‘abuse’ have become synonymous with all modern social networking platforms. Be it Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, you will find as much ugliness as there is beauty on these platforms. In fact, these … Read more
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Oct. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Foreign disinformation campaigns on social media have caused vaccination rates to fall, a new study reveals. Every 1 point increase in the effort to discredit vaccines is linked to an average 2% drop in annual vaccine coverage around the … Read more
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Facebook chatter from the anti-vaccination movement now frames the issue as one of civil liberties, a new study finds. As a COVID-19 vaccine gets closer to becoming a reality, opposition from so-called anti-vaxxer groups could become a political movement, researchers warn. For the study, the investigators … Read more
NEW DELHI: NewsMobile, a Facebook fact checking partner for India said a project it worked on alongside FakeNetAI, a start up at the University of California (UC) Berkeley to detect deep fakes on social media platforms will be deployed in a beta version during the US elections and will also be useful to check if … Read more
(This story originally appeared in on Sep 13, 2020) NEW DELHI: The country’s two top judges — Chief Justice of India S A Bobde and next in line Justice N V Ramana — on Saturday said judges are often soft targets of vituperative criticism in social media as they are trained to exercise restraint and … Read more
Bailey encouraged others to practice “safe social”. Social media and mental health: While social media was already highly active, the dependency of people on such platforms has increased tremendously during the coronavirus-induced lockdown. Social media has several benefits, in terms of connecting an individual to his long-lost friends and helping him find more people with … Read more
New Delhi: Amid a political slugfest over the Facebook issue, the company’s India head Ajit Mohan on Wednesday appeared before a parliamentary panel, which is discussing alleged misuse of social media platforms. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, headed by senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, had called representatives of Facebook to hear their views … Read more
Zhang Yiming was having breakfast at home in Beijing in July when a message popped on his computer screen. A friend sent a link featuring President Trump, in which he said the coronavirus came from China and, as part of a U.S. response, he might ban TikTok, the hit video app Mr. Zhang founded. Mr. … Read more