Meta flays German antitrust order on curbing data collection

Meta removed over 27 mn India content pieces in March

In March, Meta removed about 24.6 million content pieces from Facebook across in India and over 2.7 million pieces of content from Instagram across 12 policies, according to the company’s compliance report. Between March 1 and 31, Meta received 656 reports through Facebook’s Indian grievance mechanism. The company...


Twitter merges misinformation, spam prevention teams

Twitter testing ‘Twitter Circle’ feature

Twitter is testing a new feature called 'Twitter Circle' where users can handpick a smaller crowd of 150 people with whom they want to share their tweets. The new Twitter feature seems to be on a similar line to Instagram's Close Friends feature, which allows selecting the audience for their stories. Announcing...


YouTube Go to be shut down in August

YouTube Go to be shut down in August

YouTube Go, which was launched as a lightweight alternative to the regular app in 2018, will be going away in August, the platform has announced. According to ANI, this revelation was made by YouTube in its Community forums. The video platform advised users of the lite app to either switch to the regular application or visit it in the browser...


Google preparing to move SC over CCI Android ruling

Google hires former Indian govt. official as public policy head

Alphabet Inc's Google has hired a new public policy head in India, Archana Gulati, who previously worked at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's federal think-tank and the country's antitrust watchdog, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

A number of Indian government officials have been hired by Big Tech 

Twitter avoids sharing information on bot accounts

Musk hints Twitter may charge fee from govt, commercial users

Elon Musk has said Twitter Inc. might charge a "slight" fee for commercial and government users, part of the billionaire entrepreneur's push to grow revenue which has lagged behind larger rivals like Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook.

"Twitter will always be free for casual users, but m...


FB shut down its podcast platform

FB shut down its podcast platform

Social media giant Facebook has planned to shut down its podcast platform less than a year after its launch. According to ANI, the audio podcast platform's closure is confirmed and it is speculated that the closure will altogether close on June 3. The move is part of a broader re-evaluation of Facebook's audio ...