On a special episode of Koffee With Karan season 6, Alia Bhatt let out a secret about beau Ranbir Kapoor. Alia Bhatt and Deepika Padukone kickstarted the season 6 of Koffee With Karan where they both revealed being in relationships. During the infamous rapid fire round, when Karan Johar asked[Read More…]
Tag: Social Media
We should have a civil conduct on social media: Swara Bhasker
New Delhi: Known for speaking her mind, actress Swara Bhasker, who has often been a victim of trolling and online bullying, says like any other public sphere, social media should also have a civil conduct. Asked if social media bullying bothers her, Swara told IANS here: “It used to bother[Read More…]
“I saw a little wrong information”, says the graduate who drove his parents in a rickshaw
Bangladeshi graduate Wali Ullah’s picture has been going viral for quite some time now in media but with a different name and identity. Image of Wali Ullah riding his parents back home in a rickshaw after convocation is distinctly misinformed on Twitter and is being shared across India. Misinformation: The[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh: Cyber battle between BJP and Congress is pacing up political heat
The two major contenders in Madhya Pradesh’s electoral battle, both Congress and BJP are fighting through various means including rallies and road shows, apart from these tactics, there is a hidden war between the both, which is famously called as social media war alias cyberwar. However, Madhya Pradesh polls 2018[Read More…]
Social media to be monitored for poll code violations: Telangana CEO
Social media posts of political parties and groups in poll-bound Telangana will come under the Election Commission’s scanner to check for any objectionable content under the model code of conduct, state Chief Electoral Officer Rajat Kumar has said. An agency had been appointed in Telangana to help the CEO on[Read More…]
Human traffickers use Facebook, Tinder to hunt underage victims: Study
New York: Human traffickers are exploiting social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram or SnapChat, as well as dating apps such as Tinder, Blendr and Yellow to hunt for potential underage victims, reveals a new study. Traffickers educate themselves by studying what the victim posts on these sites to build[Read More…]
The fault in our social media stars
Offlate, the world wide web has been infested with a new type of men. The type that attends ‘Pride Marches’, attends your local stand-up gigs, band performances or experimental theatre. It is easy to spot them. They are usually the ones who wear t-shirts with a huge ‘The future is[Read More…]
‘Social-media commerce accounts for 79% of online selling in India’
Sales through social media platforms account for over 79 per cent of the total online selling of goods and services in India, a PayPal report said on Thursday. Growing digitisation and increasing internet penetration in India have reportedly encouraged commerce to move online, it said. “Facebook, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger[Read More…]
Instagram’s new feature extends help to struggle drug abuse
Facebook-owned Instagram is rolling out a new “prompt feature” that would pop-up if users try to find substance abuse related recovery and treatment services or look to buy drugs illegally on the platform using certain hashtags such as “opioid”, the media has reported. “Instagram says people are using hashtags to[Read More…]
Sushant Singh Rajput temporarily blocked by Instagram, know why?
Bollywood actor Suchant Singh Rajput has been quite on social media in responding to his fans. However, Instagram recently blocked the actor from using his account for some time. Sharing this news, Sushant posted a screenshot of the warning message he received from the photo-sharing website. Explaining his stance, he[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh: Congress sets 15,000 FB likes, 5,000 Twitter followers as target for ticket aspirants
Indian National Congress in Madhya Pradesh issued a notice to the candidates aspiring for tickets. ‘Social media’ activity of the MLAs would be taken into consideration for ticket distribution in the poll-bound state. The party has announced that the tickets will be given only to those having huge social media[Read More…]
‘Don’t upload animal sacrifice pictures on social media’
A Trinamool Congress parliamentarian on Sunday advised people to desist from uploading pictures of animal sacrifice on the social media on Eid-ul-Azha so that the sentiments of no community are hurt. Animals are sacrificed during Bakri Eid, slated to be celebrated on Wednesday. “I also call upon everybody not to walk the[Read More…]
Article 35A like marriage deed, says IAS officer
Srinagar: Shah Faesal, an IAS officer whose recourse to social media attracted disciplinary action earlier, on Sunday compared Article 35A of the Constitution to a marriage deed or ‘nikahnama’. You repeal it and the relationship is over. Nothing will remain to be discussed afterwards, Faesal said. Responding to Faesal’s remarks,[Read More…]
Social media sensation ‘Kiki challenge’ claiming lives
Social media has recently been flooded with videos of the viral Kiki challenge that involves the participant to dance on a song, ‘In My Feelings’, by rapper Drake, while walking beside a moving car. The challenge has led to many teens and youngsters across the world trying it, many of[Read More…]
Fanney Khan song ‘Mere Ache Din’ roasted, compared with Modi’s slogan ‘Ache Din’
‘Mere ache din kab aayenge’, a song from the upcoming movie Fanney Khan has been trolled by the social media, taking a dig at Bharatiya Janata Party over their political slogan ‘Ache Din’, that Narendra Modi used during the general elections of 2014. Movie Fanney Khan, starring Aishwarya Rai Bachchan,[Read More…]
Facebook loses $120 billion in market value over slow growth
Facing global backlash over the massive Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Facebook stock nosedived 20 per cent — wiping over $120 billion off the company’s market value — after its revenue and user growth in the second quarter of 2018 fell short of investor expectations. The social media giant late on[Read More…]
Facebook shielding far-right activists, under-age accounts: Report
London: Moderators at Facebook are protecting far-right activists, preventing their Pages from being deleted even after they violate the rules set up by the social media giant, the media reported. The process called shielded review was uncovered by Channel 4 Dispatches – a documentary series that sent an undercover reporter[Read More…]
Govt seeks to tap WhatsApp texts of the citizens, says SC
New Delhi: In response to the I&B ministry’ decision to set up a social media hub to monitor online data the Supreme Court said the government wanting to tap citizens’ WhatsApp messages is “like creating a surveillance state”. The top court has sought the government’s response in the matter within[Read More…]
WhatsApp’s ‘Forwarded’ feature: identifies message as ‘Forwarded’ or originally written by sender
Amid the spate of fake news crises around the globe, WhatsApp has moved a step further towards resolving the issue by launching a new feature as ‘Forwarded’, which will identify whether a certain message has been forwarded or created by the sender. Any forwarded message will have a small ‘Forwarded’[Read More…]
Won’t tolerate data misuse to influence polls: Ravi Shankar Prasad
New Delhi: IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday warned social media companies against misusing users’ data to influence the outcome of elections, saying this will not be tolerated. Also, the government was awaiting the report of the Justice Srikrishna Committee on data protection and law, said Prasad, who is[Read More…]
The bigotry of Indians and social media
A tweet by a man, Abhishek Mishra went viral on Twitter for all the wrong reasons. He claimed to have cancelled an Ola cab booking because the driver was a Muslim. In his tweet, he announced that he doesn’t want to give money to “Jihadi people”. As people raged against[Read More…]
US plans to seek visa applicants’ social media info
Washington: The US State Department has said that it plans to require all American visa applicants to submit their social media information. Applicants for immigrant and non-immigrant visas, under the proposal, would be required to provide “identifiers” they have used on various social media platforms in the previous five years,[Read More…]
Twitter wants to be less toxic, seeks users’ help
San Francisco: With social media platforms increasingly coming under fire for fanning hate speeches, trolling and failing to stop spread of fake news, Twitter has said it is committed to making the platform less toxic. It is seeking help of users in improving what it calls the “conversational health” so[Read More…]
WhatsApp to soon show ‘Forwarded Message’ for spam posts
New Delhi: In a move to stop mass-level spam circulation on its platform, WhatsApp is reportedly working on a feature that will show “Forwarded Message” if the spam post has been forwarded from another group or from one of the members in the same chat group. “Forwarded Message” will appear[Read More…]
Social media use may affect teenagers’ real life relationships
Toronto: Even as effects of social media use on mental well-being is hotly debated, a new study says that spending too much time online can create problems in real life relationships of teenagers and vice versa. Results of a survey conducted by Professor Candice Odgers of University of California, Irvine and[Read More…]