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The cover photo of the verified account showed the image of Turkish Airline and the tweets displaying in the account are also in Turkish language. (Photo: ANI)

Air India's official Twitter account hacked, pro-Turkish tweets appear

One of the retweets claimed that the Air India account has been hacked by the Turkish cyber army Ayyildiz Tim.

15 March 2018 8:28 AM IST

Last month, a Twitter account posing as Elon Musk targeted fans of the Silicon Valley billionaire, claiming to give away cryptocurrency.

Get yourself verified on Twitter, says CEO

The basic ideology of the verification ticks was to identify the difference between the real and parody accounts.

12 March 2018 6:38 PM IST

Social media, created to connect people, has turned into an effective tool for propagandists to manipulate public opinion. They feed off the fact that people trust messages sent by their friends and families. A complex regulatory mechanism involving various stake holders is need to end the menace.

Silicon logic stumps users

India is no different whether it is fake news or propaganda.

12 March 2018 2:39 AM IST

World is more divided than before though its not just because of social media. People were already divided; but all of this is getting exaggerated by social media.

The good, bad and the ugly

The creators and practitioners of social media tech are themselves on a learning curve even as they try to rein in the...

12 March 2018 2:32 AM IST

Social media offers dark spaces for political campaigning. (Photo: Pixabay)

Social media offers dark spaces for political campaigning

Social media also upends campaign advertising practices.

11 March 2018 2:00 PM IST

Shashi Tharoor (Photo: Sondeep Shankar)

Shashi Tharoor showered with wishes

Happy Birthday to the most charming (and good looking) man in Indian politics today!

11 March 2018 12:37 AM IST

Rick Eaton, a senior researcher at the Wiesenthal Center, said hateful and violent posts on Instagram, which is part of Facebook, are quickly removed but not before they can be widely shared.

Twitter, Facebook becoming unpopular, says report

The Origin's survey has revealed that over 50 per cent of users between the ages of 18 and 24 had been "seeking relief...

10 March 2018 8:00 AM IST

Parag Agrawal. (Photo: Twitter.com)

Twitter appoints Parag Agrawal as chief technology officer

Agrawal, an alumnus of IIT-Bombay and a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University.

9 March 2018 2:00 PM IST

Last month, a Twitter account posing as Elon Musk targeted fans of the Silicon Valley billionaire, claiming to give away cryptocurrency.

False news 70 percent more likely to spread on Twitter: Study

While the study focused on Twitter, the researchers said their findings likely also would apply to Facebook.

9 March 2018 8:00 AM IST

Doshis ethical and personal approach to architecture has touched lives of every socio-economic class across a broad spectrum of genres since the 1950s. (Photo: AP)

Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi wins Pritzker Prize

Nonagenarian Doshi becomes first Indian recipient of architecture's highest honour.

8 March 2018 10:43 AM IST

Last month, a Twitter account posing as Elon Musk targeted fans of the Silicon Valley billionaire, claiming to give away cryptocurrency.

Twitter takes steps to prevent crypto scams on platform

The measures come amid a boom in the price of bitcoin, the world's best-known cryptocurrency.

8 March 2018 7:53 AM IST

The post immediately went viral and when Michelle Obama heard of her little fan she decided she had to meet the little girl. (Photo: Instagram/MichelleObama)

Michelle Obama meets young girl who went viral for fawning over her...

The former first lady's staff got in touch with Jessica Curry the mother of two-year-old Parker, and invited the family...

7 March 2018 5:10 PM IST