Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg took responsibility and faulted his company for not removing the page and event for a militia group before two people were killed at a protest in Kenosha, saying it was “largely an operational mistake”. The page and event listing violated Facebook’s policies and should have been removed after numerous […]

Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg took responsibility and faulted his company for not removing the page and event for a militia group before two people were killed at a protest in Kenosha, saying it was “largely an operational mistake”. The page and event listing violated Facebook’s policies and should have been removed after numerous […]

The consumer base of e-commerce shoppers has doubled to 42% of urban active internet users in India over the last three months (amid the Covid-19pandemic), according to a study by consulting firm Kantar. Nearly 50% of these are new users of e-commerce coming from tier-1 and -2 cities. For new shoppers, Amazon and Google have […]

Two months before a Wall Street Journal report alleged that Facebook had turned a blind eye to hate speech by a BJP leader and right-wing groups, national convenor of BJP’s IT cell Amit Malviya had written two emails to the technology giant in June, calling for action against an employee for “anti-BJP bias”. Asked if […]

Two months before a Wall Street Journal report alleged that Facebook had turned a blind eye to hate speech by a BJP leader and right-wing groups, national convenor of BJP’s IT cell Amit Malviya had written two emails to the technology giant in June, calling for action against an employee for “anti-BJP bias”. Asked if […]

Netflix’s upcoming series “Bad Boy Billionaires”-slated to release on September 2- was challenged in two separate petitions before two separate Courts on Friday. While the Delhi High Court rejected absconding diamond merchant Mehul Choksi’s writ, a local Court in Bihar ordered interim stay on transmission of the series using the name of Subrata Roy, Chairman […]

Netflix’s upcoming series “Bad Boy Billionaires”-slated to release on September 2- was challenged in two separate petitions before two separate Courts on Friday. While the Delhi High Court rejected absconding diamond merchant Mehul Choksi’s writ, a local Court in Bihar ordered interim stay on transmission of the series using the name of Subrata Roy, Chairman […]

Illustration: Rahul Awasthi A big-banner production house reached out to Anushka Bansal, a student of fine arts in Kanpur, via Instagram recently. On offer was a project to design a poster for its upcoming movie. Bansal, 22, didn’t know anyone in the Hindi film industry until then. The opportunity came her way when she made […]

Illustration: Rahul Awasthi A big-banner production house reached out to Anushka Bansal, a student of fine arts in Kanpur, via Instagram recently. On offer was a project to design a poster for its upcoming movie. Bansal, 22, didn’t know anyone in the Hindi film industry until then. The opportunity came her way when she made […]

Facebook on Thursday told Reuters that Apple rejected its attempt to tell users the iPhone maker would take a 30% cut of sales in a new online events feature, forcing Facebook to remove the message to get the tool to users. Facebook said that Apple cited an App Store rule that bars developers from showing […]