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Twitter Expanding Birdwatch Community Fact-Checking Programme With New Onboarding Process, More
Twitter has revealed that it is expanding its community fact-checking programme called Birdwatch. It has introduced a new onboarding process and plans to increase the visibility of tweets identified as Helpful by Birdwatch.
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Explained: What Is Corporate Social Responsibility?
The CSR is designed as a specific tool to achieve specific goals – such as encouraging a positive impact on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, stakeholders and all members of the public.
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CBSE, Intel To Launch AI Student Community
This will be a youth-driven platform to encourage collaborative learning, sharing and creating AI-enabled social impact solutions, CBSE said.
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Centre Asks States To Form Committees For Smooth COVID-19 Vaccination Drive
The Centre has asked states to constitute committees for coordination and overseeing COVID-19 vaccination drive while ensuring minimal disruptions in other routine healthcare services, and stressed early tracking of social media to dispel rumours which could impact the community acceptance of coronavirus inoculation.
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Google Doodle Says, "Thank You Coronavirus Helpers"
"Thank you coronavirus helpers," said today's Google Doodle in appreciation of the work undertaken by the frontline workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic. "As COVID-19 continues to impact communities around the world, people are coming together to help one another now more than ever...," Google said. Google has been spreading awareness through its...
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Coronavirus Lockdown: Nissan Extends Support Services To Its Customers
Those customers whose free service, warranty and extended warranty were lapsing during the lockdown period will be able to avail these benefits for one month post the lockdown.
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Facebook Feature Lets People Reach Out for Help in Pandemic
Facebook on Tuesday activated a feature allowing people impacted by the coronavirus pandemic to reach out for help from their community.
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Kerala Floods: Facebook Donates Rs. 1.75 Crores for Victims
Facebook will donate the money through the Community Resilience Fund for GOONJ - a Delhi-based non-profit organisation that is leading the relief and recovery efforts in the impacted localities.
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Triple Talaq Impacts Dignity Of Muslim Women: Centre Tells Supreme Court
The Centre has told the Supreme Court that the practices of 'triple talaq', 'nikah halala' and polygamy impact the social status and dignity of Muslim women and deny them fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution. In a fresh written submission filed before the Supreme Court, the government has reiterated its earlier stand and said these pra...
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Opinion: With WhatsApp, I'm Trying To Ensure Common Man Gets Immediate Help
Our first endeavour was to bring together all Heads of Departments on one platform to start communicating with each other on an real-time basis and keep up the conversation. Chat with each other. Be friends without even formal dinners.
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Autism Not Just A Disease Of The Brain: Study
Autism, which significantly impairs an individual's ability to communicate as well as interact socially, has also been found to impact their senses, says a new study.
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Virtual Reality App Brings Aleppo Crisis Zones Closer Home
Bombed-out buildings tower overhead, and rubble is piled high in the deserted streets of Syria's onetime economic hub Aleppo. Gunshots can be heard in the distance.
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Meerkat Raises $14 Million in Funding as Twitter Launches Periscope
"We aspire to become the most comprehensive and most impactful participatory live streaming community," Meerkat's blog said.
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Social activist Aruna Roy slams nuclear energy
Nuclear energy is bad for development and India should not adopt it - this was the key outcome of a people's hearing on nuclear energy projects in India held on August 22-23 where concerns of the local communities regarding safety, viability and impacts of these projects on the lives and livelihoods of the surrounding population and their environme...
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Twitter Expanding Birdwatch Community Fact-Checking Programme With New Onboarding Process, More
Twitter has revealed that it is expanding its community fact-checking programme called Birdwatch. It has introduced a new onboarding process and plans to increase the visibility of tweets identified as Helpful by Birdwatch.
-
Explained: What Is Corporate Social Responsibility?
The CSR is designed as a specific tool to achieve specific goals – such as encouraging a positive impact on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, stakeholders and all members of the public.
-
CBSE, Intel To Launch AI Student Community
This will be a youth-driven platform to encourage collaborative learning, sharing and creating AI-enabled social impact solutions, CBSE said.
-
Centre Asks States To Form Committees For Smooth COVID-19 Vaccination Drive
The Centre has asked states to constitute committees for coordination and overseeing COVID-19 vaccination drive while ensuring minimal disruptions in other routine healthcare services, and stressed early tracking of social media to dispel rumours which could impact the community acceptance of coronavirus inoculation.
-
Google Doodle Says, "Thank You Coronavirus Helpers"
"Thank you coronavirus helpers," said today's Google Doodle in appreciation of the work undertaken by the frontline workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic. "As COVID-19 continues to impact communities around the world, people are coming together to help one another now more than ever...," Google said. Google has been spreading awareness through its...
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Coronavirus Lockdown: Nissan Extends Support Services To Its Customers
Those customers whose free service, warranty and extended warranty were lapsing during the lockdown period will be able to avail these benefits for one month post the lockdown.
-
Facebook Feature Lets People Reach Out for Help in Pandemic
Facebook on Tuesday activated a feature allowing people impacted by the coronavirus pandemic to reach out for help from their community.
-
Kerala Floods: Facebook Donates Rs. 1.75 Crores for Victims
Facebook will donate the money through the Community Resilience Fund for GOONJ - a Delhi-based non-profit organisation that is leading the relief and recovery efforts in the impacted localities.
-
Triple Talaq Impacts Dignity Of Muslim Women: Centre Tells Supreme Court
The Centre has told the Supreme Court that the practices of 'triple talaq', 'nikah halala' and polygamy impact the social status and dignity of Muslim women and deny them fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution. In a fresh written submission filed before the Supreme Court, the government has reiterated its earlier stand and said these pra...
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Opinion: With WhatsApp, I'm Trying To Ensure Common Man Gets Immediate Help
Our first endeavour was to bring together all Heads of Departments on one platform to start communicating with each other on an real-time basis and keep up the conversation. Chat with each other. Be friends without even formal dinners.
-
Autism Not Just A Disease Of The Brain: Study
Autism, which significantly impairs an individual's ability to communicate as well as interact socially, has also been found to impact their senses, says a new study.
-
Virtual Reality App Brings Aleppo Crisis Zones Closer Home
Bombed-out buildings tower overhead, and rubble is piled high in the deserted streets of Syria's onetime economic hub Aleppo. Gunshots can be heard in the distance.
-
Meerkat Raises $14 Million in Funding as Twitter Launches Periscope
"We aspire to become the most comprehensive and most impactful participatory live streaming community," Meerkat's blog said.
-
Social activist Aruna Roy slams nuclear energy
Nuclear energy is bad for development and India should not adopt it - this was the key outcome of a people's hearing on nuclear energy projects in India held on August 22-23 where concerns of the local communities regarding safety, viability and impacts of these projects on the lives and livelihoods of the surrounding population and their environme...
