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By Pramod K Nayar For a few hours, the global audience did not know what was going on. Literally. With Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram crashing, people discovered a lot of time on their hands. Ironically, the principal sources of disinformation – online and social media platforms – were themselves subjected to disinformation. In an era […]
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Canberra: Australia’s Prime Minister on Thursday described social media as a “coward’s palace” and warned that digital platforms including Facebook should be held liable for defamatory comments posted anonymously. Anonymous commentators who use social media to vilify and bully have become the latest battleground between Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s government and U.S. tech giants. The […]
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Hyderabad: A businessman, who got friendly with a woman he met on Facebook, lost about Rs.1.2 crore in what the police say was a classic honey trap. Three persons including a woman have been arrested in connection with the case. According to the Amberpet police, the three were arrested on charges of cheating a Guntur-based […]
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Washington: Facebook has said that the disruption of its operation was caused by configuration changes on backbone routers. Facebook, in a statement, said its service is now back online.“Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication. This […]
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New Delhi: Services of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp started coming back online on Tuesday after an outage that lasted almost six hours. The services went down at about 16:00 GMT with users beginning to gain access to the sites at around 22:00. “Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are coming back online now. Sorry for the […]
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Hyderabad: Social media apps WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram have been down since Monday evening. Much to the frustration of the users, these apps have been snagging whenever refreshed. It has been reported that users received a “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can,” message […]
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New York: US lawmakers blasted Facebook for three hours over the tech giant’s handling of internal research that showed how its Instagram photo sharing platform was wrecking teens and weaponising “children’s vulnerability”. Bombshell revelations in September first reported by The Wall Street Journal have set off alarm bells yet again around Facebook’s hold over young […]
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The company said the change could help the platform fight harmful behaviour it wouldn't otherwise be able to fully address under its existing rules, reports Engadget.
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San Francisco: At least 5.8 million high profile Facebook users have VIP pass that allows them to break rules without consequences, the media reported. According to The Wall Street Journal, the tech giant is using a programme that whitelists millions of VIP users from the company’s standard content moderation practices. The programme is known as […]
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San Francisco: Micro-blogging site Twitter has announced a new feature “Communities” as an alternative to Facebook’s popular Groups where people can share discussions on a specific topic. Twitter Community will have its own moderators who are able to set rules and invite or remove people. Twitter invited a handful of users to create the first […]
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Hyderabad: In a development that will cement Hyderabad as an attractive destination to the existing as well as new investors, social media giant Facebook and healthcare player Providence have taken additional space as part of its expansion plans. The social media company, in its recent move, has taken 91,000 sqft at the iconic Skyview towers. […]
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The recent ‘Milk Crate Challenge’ has been a worry for several doctors in the US. As the challenge led to several injuries, sometimes irreversible, among many in the country, the challenge was banned from leading short-video platform TikTok. However, it still remains up on Facebook and Twitter. So what is this ‘Milk Crate Challenge’? The […]
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Rachakonda Police picked them up from New Delhi. They had recently cheated a city woman of Rs 26 lakh
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Safeguard your data by making privacy settings: Experts
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From fun memes to some serious medical emergencies, everything you need to know about the recently Tiktok banned #cratechallenge.
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Karimnagar: The Karimnagar police on Monday traced and arrested a person whose photos which showed him with a ‘weapon’ went viral creating a sensation sometime ago. Later, it was discovered that he only posed with a toy pistol. The toy pistol was seized from his possession. The person was identified as Gaddam Krishna (32) alias […]
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The New York Times first reported that the most-viewed link on Facebook in the first quarter "had a headline that could promote Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy".
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According to the police, a person belonging to a particular sect in the same community made a controversial and defamatory post on Facebook against a religious practice.
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Hyderabad: In the last eight weeks, the Rachakonda She Teams caught 49 persons including six minors for harassing women, apart from stopping nine child marriages and rescuing the girls. As many as 57 cases, including 27 FIRs were booked during this period, officials said. Those caught were counselled by professional counselors and psychiatrists in the […]
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They, however, are encouraging techies to get vaccinated as soon as possible and are following all safety protocols in workspaces
