The plea has been filed by BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay who has sought direction to the Central government to take the necessary steps to deactivate duplicate, fake and ghost social media accounts in order to control fake news and paid news.
Hundreds of students are protesting against the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) demanding re-evaluation of their answer sheets. CA Students are holding protests outside ICAI Office in ITO, Delhi. Protests are taking place throughout India, including Durgapur, Siliguri, Bhilwara, Hyderabad and Jaipur. CA students are demanding better transparency in the paper evaluation process. A massive social media furore has also erupted where CA students are questioning ICAI President Prafulla Chhajed over his silence, using #icaipresidentmissing #DearICAIAmend39_4 ,and #dearicaiplschange
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday debunked social media rumours on closing down certain commercial banks. It said such reports are false, emphasising that no commercial banks are going to be shut.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed serious concern over issues like trolling, character assassination, spreading lies and fake news on social media. Technology has taken a dangerous turn, the top court observed and asked the Centre to apprise it within three weeks about the time-frame needed to come up with guidelines to curb misuse of social media in the country.
Twitter has shut down thousands of accounts across the world for spreading fake news and pro-government propaganda including in places like the United Arab Emirates, China and Spain.
Don't get into Pakistan's trap of fuelling tensions in India via social media. Several fake Twitter handles of senior Indian military leadership are doing the rounds. These are not real Twitter accounts of the persons mentioned. The Indian Army and other security agencies are taking strict action against these fake Twitter handles that are fabricated by Pakistani agencies to spread misinformation about India after the abrogation of Article 370 and 35A.
With fake videos on Kashmir coming in droves from Pakistan amid Internet shutdown in the Valley, communication channels are open among separatists as well as local terrorists via several offline chat apps and highly-encrypted anonymous chat platform Tor, giving a hard time to security agencies and authorities in Jammu and Kashmir.
A USCIS statement explaining the change says fake accounts and identities will make it easier for investigators to search for potential evidence of fraud or security concerns as they decide whether to allow someone entry into the U.S.
Cricketing great Sachin Tendulkar comes next with 30.1 million followers on Twitter. On Facebook and Instagram, he has 28 million and 16.5 million followers, respectively.
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has turned William Shakespeare. Eh? Well, don't be bewildered. Here's what happened.
A 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped by two men in Alwar on the same day and her nude photographs were clicked and circulated on social media, police said on Sunday.
Sharenting - a parent's habitual use of social media to share news and images about their children - puts the child's online privacy and, potentially, safety at risk, warn researchers. The researchers found evidence that women's feelings of vulnerability about being a mother are linked to their posting on social media.
Over 2,100 URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) were blocked on social media platforms in the first six months of 2019, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. A total of 633, 1,385 and 2,799 URLs were ordered for blocking in 2016, 2017 and 2018, respectively, Electronics and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.
According to police, the second year student had posted the comments on the social media against one of his seniors, following he and two others took him to an isolated building near their private engineering college in Sathupalli town on Tuesday and assaulted him.
A 33-year old man in this district has been arrested for uploading a post on social media inviting people to a 'beef festival' to be held in Kumbakonam soon, police said in Thanjavur on Wednesday.
Salman Khan bonds with nephews Arhaan and Nirvaan; also races a horse and defeats it. The video has gone viral on social media and people are loving it.
The growing influence of social media can be seen even in the top tier of Indian politicians. Here is the full list of top 10 Indian politician with highest twitter following.
For health professionals, posting a single negative comment on their Facebook profiles may hinder their credibility with current or potential clients.
"Given we now have most of the world's factual information literally at our fingertips, this appears to have the potential to begin changing the ways in which we store, and even value, facts and knowledge in society, and in the brain," says an Australian researcher.
The social media identifiers will be incorporated into a background check review against watchlists generated by the US government.
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