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Trump has used Twitter in particular to stoke unsubstantiated doubts about mail-in voting, just months before Americans are expected to vote by mail in massive numbers due to the coronavirus pandemic. Google-owned YouTube will take down content aimed at manipulation, including videos that contain hacked information about a political candidate shared with the intent to interfere in an election, according to a statement. (Photo | AP)

If Trump loses, social media anticipates a fight, plans strategy to...

Facebook is considering options including a kill switch to shut off political advertising after election day to thwart...

22 Aug 2020 2:18 PM IST

Some posts that appeared on 15-year-old Noah Schnapps Twitter handle after it was hacked included sexual content, racial slurs and talk about suicide and have since been deleted. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Gage Skidmore)

Inappropriate posts appear on Noah Schnapp's hacked Twitter

Starting Saturday afternoon, Schnapp's Twitter account began publishing and retweeting a range of bizarre posts, which...

16 Aug 2020 5:48 PM IST

While Twitter does allow for the sharing of videos, most posts contain short text messages and photos or GIFs. In 2012 Twitter acquired the platform Vine, which allowed users to share short videos, but shut down the service in 2016. (Photo | MaxPixel.net)

Twitter also in talks to purchase TikTok, says report

Twitter's bid is a long shot, but it believes it would face less antitrust scrutiny than larger corporations such as...

9 Aug 2020 3:51 PM IST

Facebook has removed 35 Facebook accounts, three pages, and 88 Instagram accounts, security policy head Nathaniel Gleicher said. The people behind this network used fake accounts to pose as Americans, amplify and comment on their own content, and manage pages including some posing as President Trump fan pages. (Photo | AFP)

Facebook, Twitter crack down on Russia, China agents trying to sway US...

State-led influence campaigns were prominent on social media during the 2016 US elections and have been seen around the...

7 Aug 2020 7:11 PM IST

A group of children and parents protested the hybrid reopening of schools because they would prefer children to attend school five days a week, as before the pandemic. How likely children are to contract or spread the coronavirus has become a deeply contentious issue in the US, with reopening schools essential to enabling many parents to go back to work. Children are known to be far less likely to fall seriously ill or die from the virus: less than one percent of children who test positive for COVID-19 end up dying, according to a Europe-wide study released in June. (Photo | AP)

Trump's Facebook, Twitter post removed for saying children 'almost...

Action taken over 'misinformation', but the American Academy of Pediatrics says children appear to transmit COVID-19...

6 Aug 2020 5:25 PM IST

Shaming people who get sick or dont follow the rules in a public health crisis has been a thing since well before coronavirus, researchers say. But the warp speed and reach of social media in the pandemic era gives the practice an aggressive new dimension.

Boy do they like to come after you! Social media won't let you live...

Several people who did not wear masks and subsequently got infected with COVID-19 have been hounded on social media.

26 Sept 2020 7:21 PM IST

While it is understandable that social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter remove content that incites or promotes violence, they are not currently archiving this material in a manner that is accessible for investigators and researchers to help hold perpetrators to account , HRW said.

Not enough to remove hate speech, social networks must archive...

Online posts could also help document atrocities and abuses such as chemical weapons attacks in Syria and police abuse...

10 Sept 2020 4:22 PM IST

Mathematics teacher Basirat Olamide Ajayi, 36, teaches probability theory with the aid of playing cards, online via her mobile phone from her house in Lagos, Nigeria Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020. Ajayis free classes are attracting students from all over Nigeria, and now students abroad are joining. A recent request came from Canada. Ajayi says she is beginning to see herself as a global teacher. (Photo | AP)

Pandemic opens global opportunity for maths teacher taking classes on...

Students watch Basirat Olamide Ajayi's short math videosno more than 5 minutes longand respond to her questions.

7 Sept 2020 5:54 PM IST

No one ever is happy with the current amount of content moderation that platforms are undertaking. Some people think it is too little, while others think it is too much.

Tech This Week | Should India have its own social media content...

Platforms are diverse and a one-size-fits-all approach will not work.

5 Sept 2020 6:03 PM IST

Twitter has cracked down by removing or labelling several of the presidents tweets. Facebook, citing the risk of civil unrest, announced Thursday that it would not allow new political ads on its platform in the last week of the November 3 race. (Photo | AFP)

Team Trump sticks to polarising, manipulative content on social media...

The open use of digitally-altered images by Trump and other candidates in 2020 has tech giants worried.

5 Sept 2020 5:38 PM IST

Twitter account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been hacked. (PTI Photo)

PM Modi's Twitter account hacked, asked followers for donations via...

Faked tweets were sent from 45 accounts and hackers accessed private messages in 36 and downloaded Twitter data from...

3 Sept 2020 9:50 AM IST

Twitters poor video quality has been a long-running frustration for users on the platform. (Photo: PTI)

Twitter trying out in-conversation ad format

The Verge reported that users will see ads after the first, third, or eighth reply to a tweet

14 Oct 2021 2:24 PM IST