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Social media and the sharing economy have created opportunities by leveraging online networks to build trust and remove market barriers. (Photo: Pixabay)

Facebook, Twitter remove almost 300 pages promoting Iranian propaganda

The social media companies acted on a tip from cybersecurity firm FireEye Inc.

22 Aug 2018 7:16 AM IST

Conference workers speak in front of a demo booth at Facebooks annual F8 developer conference, in San Jose, Calif. The chairman of the U.K. Parliaments media committee says the government office that investigated the Cambridge Analytica scandal has fined Facebook 500,000 pounds ($663,000) for failing to safeguard users data. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Iran-based political influence operation bigger than previously...

IUVM pushes content from Iranian state media and other outlets aligned with the government in Tehran across the...

30 Aug 2018 9:32 AM IST

It also added that women have more satisfying sex with a less agreeable partner (Photo: AFP)

Iranian hookers selling '3 minute Halal marriages' to legally have sex...

In conservative Iran, Shiite Muslims can get up to 100 lashes, often carried out in public, for sex out of wedlock.

4 Sept 2018 12:34 PM IST

Last month a senior Iranian official said European powers had until the end of May to come up with an economic package to compensate Iran for the effects of the US withdrawal. (Photo: AP)

US warns Iran it will respond to attacks by Tehran allies in Iraq

'Iran did not act to stop these attacks by its proxies in Iraq, which it has supported with funding, training, and...

12 Sept 2018 1:40 PM IST

The kind and the scale of these cyber weapons was such that even the CIA lost control of majority of its hacking arsenal which includes state of the art malware, viruses, Trojans and weaponised zero day exploits which can be worth millions of dollars each in dark web.

Cybersecurity firm: More Iran hacks possible as US sanctions loomed

The firm warns that raises the danger level ahead of America re-imposing crushing sanctions on Iran's oil industry in...

19 Sept 2018 11:13 AM IST

Twitter has been warned by Pakistans telecom authority that the micro-blogging site could be banned in the country for not complying with its directive to block objectionable content.

Iran: Twitter shut legitimate accounts, but not anti-government ones

Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet collectively removed hundreds of accounts tied to an alleged Iranian propaganda...

18 Sept 2018 11:14 AM IST

Poilice stand in front of Al-Irschad Mosque during a raid today. (AFP)

Germany bans Hezbollah activities in the country, calls it a terrorist...

Dozens of police and special forces stormed mosques and associations linked to Hezbollah during the early hours of...

30 April 2020 1:02 PM IST

Hassan Rouhani (AFP photo)

Iran hits back at US: Washington should not plot against Tehran every...

Tehran and Washington have traded barbs over a spate of incidents in the past year.

29 April 2020 4:45 PM IST

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. (Photo- AP)

US sanctions not hampered Iran's fight against coronavirus: Rouhani

Friction between Tehran and Washington has increased since 2018 when President Donald Trump pulled the US out of...

1 April 2020 1:29 PM IST

A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that law enforcement agencies can view private messages and tweets from private accounts on Twitter if they get a warrant.

Iran says twitter ready to talk on unblocking site

Iran's new telecommunications minister says Twitter is ready to talk about unblocking access to the microblogging site.

24 Aug 2017 3:33 PM IST

Pied Piper is collecting a crowd

Pied Piper is collecting a crowd

The latest is that the Telugu Desam Party president, N.

29 Sept 2013 9:50 AM IST

The Union Minister for Road Transport Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari (Photo: PTI)

Chabahar Port to be hopefully operational by 2018, says Gadkari

As per the pact, operations of two berths are to commence within a period of maximum 18 months after the signing of the...

5 Aug 2017 7:40 PM IST