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No one ever is happy with the current amount of content moderation that platforms are undertaking. Some people think it is too little, while others think it is too much.

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Tech This Week | Should India have its own social media content...

Platforms are diverse and a one-size-fits-all approach will not work.

5 Sept 2020 6:03 PM IST

Twitter has cracked down by removing or labelling several of the presidents tweets. Facebook, citing the risk of civil unrest, announced Thursday that it would not allow new political ads on its platform in the last week of the November 3 race. (Photo | AFP)

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Team Trump sticks to polarising, manipulative content on social media...

The open use of digitally-altered images by Trump and other candidates in 2020 has tech giants worried.

5 Sept 2020 5:38 PM IST

There were disagreements among the 40-lawyer team over how broad the complaint should be and what Google could do to resolve the problems that the investigation unearthed. The lawyers viewed the September-end deadline as arbitrary. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Shrijagannatha)

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Google could face an antitrust case before the end of Trump's term,...

A 40-lawyer team investigating Google was reportedly asked to wrap up by month-end, despite their seeking more time to...

4 Sept 2020 6:50 PM IST

Banning the apps, including the popular PUBG Mobile, is the most visible indication of Indias slow decoupling from China, as it has both an emotional and an economic impact.

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India's virtual war on Chinese apps is an impactful move, say retired...

The ban on Chinese apps is the start of India's decoupling from the Chinese economy, say defence and warfare experts.

4 Sept 2020 5:42 PM IST

Currently, apps are automatically given a tracking code unless users of iPhones and other Apple devices go to the extra trouble of changing their privacy controls on their own. With iOS 14, Apple planned to make apps get explicit consent from users to track them to serve them ads according to their web use. (Photo | AFP)

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Apple postpones unveiling privacy feature on iPhones as apps complain...

Facebook has said that the privacy feature in iOS 14 would deliver a blow to many apps at a time that they are...

4 Sept 2020 4:40 PM IST

Britains economy shrank by one fifth in the second quarter, more than any European neighbour, as the lockdown plunged the country into its deepest recession on record. Amazon, which has already created 3,000 new permanent UK roles this year, said it will offer more than 20,000 seasonal positions across the country ahead of the festive period. (Photo | AFP)

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Amazon to add 7,000 permanent jobs in UK as demand for online shopping...

Its total permanent UK workforce will number more than 40,000, up by a third in just a year as the pandemic triggers...

3 Sept 2020 9:01 PM IST

Fake posts that appear to be real are of particular concern ahead of the US presidential election in November, especially after false social media posts exploded in number during the 2016 vote that brought Donald Trump to power. Microsoft said it has partnered with the AI Foundation in San Francisco to make the video authentication tool available to political campaigns, news outlets and others involved in the democratic process. (Photo | AFP)

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Microsoft launches software to detect deepfakes ahead of US election

The software analyses an image or each frame of a video, looking for evidence of manipulation that could be invisible to...

3 Sept 2020 8:26 PM IST

$The social media giant also vowed to fact check any premature claims of victory, stating that if a candidate tries to declare himself the winner before final votes are tallied well add a label to their posts directing people to the official results. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, With our nation so divided and election results potentially taking days or even weeks to be finalised, there could be an increased risk of civil unrest across the country.\ (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Anthony Quintano)$ Technology