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People Trust TikTok More Than Traditional Media, Study Shows
The number of people globally who initially access news through a website or app has dropped by 10 points since 2018, and younger groups prefer to access news through social media, search or mobile aggregators, according to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in its annual Digital News Report.
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Gurugram Man Duped Of Rs 3.6 Lakh By His Social Media Friend: Cops
A Sector 81 resident was allegedly duped of over Rs 3 lakh by a man he had befriended on a social networking website, police said on Saturday.
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Twitter Not Safer Under Elon Musk Leadership, Says Former Head of Trust and Safety
Twitter is not safer under its new owner Elon Musk, says the company’s former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth. Roth who resigned from the social networking website earlier this month has helped steer the social media platform through several watershed decisions including the move to permanently suspend its most famous user, former US President...
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Is LinkedIn Down? Over 10,000 Users Report Issue Across Globe, Including India
Thousands of users of Microsoft's LinkedIn were impacted on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were over 10,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the social networking service, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted er...
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CEO's Last LinkedIn Post After "18-Hour Days, No Rona-Dhona" Advice
The CEO of a grooming products firm has said he will quit posting on the social networking website LinkedIn after he received criticism over his post on working "18 hours a day".
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Meta's Novi Digital Wallet Is Shutting Down by September: Here's What You Need to Know
The remnants of Meta’s once-ambitious cryptocurrency project are fading away. According to a notification on its website, a pilot program for Novi, the social networking giant’s money-transfer service using its own cryptocurrency digital wallet, will suspend operations on 1st September.
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Twitter's Grievance Officer, In Spotlight Over War With Centre, Resigns
Twitter's new interim grievance redressal officer in the country, appointed less than a month ago to follow India's new rules for social networking websites, has resigned amid the company's bitter feud with the government, NDTV has learnt.
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Facebook-Giphy Deal Faces Probe From UK Competition Watchdog
UK's competition watchdog launched its initial investigation into Facebook's completed acquisition of GIF website Giphy, at a time when the social media network is under global regulatory scrutiny over antitrust concerns.
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How to Switch Off Your ‘Off-Facebook Activity’ Tracking From Website and App
Here’s a step-by-step guide to turn off the ‘off-Facebook activity’ tracking. Facebook wants to show you personalised and targeted ads. But for that, it not just takes your data from its social networking site or app — alongside its subsidiaries including Instagram and WhatsApp — but also from various third parties. For this, you can chec...
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Twitter Down; Users Unable To Refresh Feed On Website, App
Social networking site Twitter faced an outage on Wednesday with thousands of users, including in India, reporting issues with refreshing their newsfeed or posting new content on the website. The service, which went down at around 8 pm resumed after a short while.
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Not On Facebook, How Can I Be Banned, Asks BJP MLA Raja Singh
Banned by Facebook on Thursday over hateful content and labelled a "dangerous individual", controversial Telangana BJP MLA T Raja Singh claimed it had been more than a year since he left the social networking website and asked whether the company was working under Congress "pressure".
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"No Case Of Interference": Delhi Court On Curbs On Use Of Apps By Army
If the government has concluded that permitting use of certain social networking websites, including Facebook and Instagram, by its defence personnel is enabling enemy countries gain an edge, the courts would be loath to interfere with the decision, the Delhi High Court said on Wednesday.
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Twitter Experiences Global Outage, Leaving Thousands Unable to Tweet
Twitter, after experiencing a worldwide service disruption preventing users from sending tweets from the social networking platform's app, website, or TweetDeck is now finally back online.
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SonyLIV Fixes Flaw That Could Let Attackers Fetch Sensitive User Information
SonyLIV has fixed a security flaw that existed in one of its APIs used for login functions. The flaw could have allowed attackers to fetch sensitive user information such as profile picture, email address, date of birth, and phone number of SonyLIV’s registered users.
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A New Browser Gives Legal Access To Facebook, YouTube, Twitter In China
Many international social media websites are banned in China, and using special software called a virtual private network (VPN) to access them can sometimes lead to jail time.
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People Trust TikTok More Than Traditional Media, Study Shows
The number of people globally who initially access news through a website or app has dropped by 10 points since 2018, and younger groups prefer to access news through social media, search or mobile aggregators, according to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in its annual Digital News Report.
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Gurugram Man Duped Of Rs 3.6 Lakh By His Social Media Friend: Cops
A Sector 81 resident was allegedly duped of over Rs 3 lakh by a man he had befriended on a social networking website, police said on Saturday.
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Twitter Not Safer Under Elon Musk Leadership, Says Former Head of Trust and Safety
Twitter is not safer under its new owner Elon Musk, says the company’s former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth. Roth who resigned from the social networking website earlier this month has helped steer the social media platform through several watershed decisions including the move to permanently suspend its most famous user, former US President...
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Is LinkedIn Down? Over 10,000 Users Report Issue Across Globe, Including India
Thousands of users of Microsoft's LinkedIn were impacted on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were over 10,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the social networking service, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted er...
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CEO's Last LinkedIn Post After "18-Hour Days, No Rona-Dhona" Advice
The CEO of a grooming products firm has said he will quit posting on the social networking website LinkedIn after he received criticism over his post on working "18 hours a day".
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Meta's Novi Digital Wallet Is Shutting Down by September: Here's What You Need to Know
The remnants of Meta’s once-ambitious cryptocurrency project are fading away. According to a notification on its website, a pilot program for Novi, the social networking giant’s money-transfer service using its own cryptocurrency digital wallet, will suspend operations on 1st September.
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Twitter's Grievance Officer, In Spotlight Over War With Centre, Resigns
Twitter's new interim grievance redressal officer in the country, appointed less than a month ago to follow India's new rules for social networking websites, has resigned amid the company's bitter feud with the government, NDTV has learnt.
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Facebook-Giphy Deal Faces Probe From UK Competition Watchdog
UK's competition watchdog launched its initial investigation into Facebook's completed acquisition of GIF website Giphy, at a time when the social media network is under global regulatory scrutiny over antitrust concerns.
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How to Switch Off Your ‘Off-Facebook Activity’ Tracking From Website and App
Here’s a step-by-step guide to turn off the ‘off-Facebook activity’ tracking. Facebook wants to show you personalised and targeted ads. But for that, it not just takes your data from its social networking site or app — alongside its subsidiaries including Instagram and WhatsApp — but also from various third parties. For this, you can chec...
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Twitter Down; Users Unable To Refresh Feed On Website, App
Social networking site Twitter faced an outage on Wednesday with thousands of users, including in India, reporting issues with refreshing their newsfeed or posting new content on the website. The service, which went down at around 8 pm resumed after a short while.
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Not On Facebook, How Can I Be Banned, Asks BJP MLA Raja Singh
Banned by Facebook on Thursday over hateful content and labelled a "dangerous individual", controversial Telangana BJP MLA T Raja Singh claimed it had been more than a year since he left the social networking website and asked whether the company was working under Congress "pressure".
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"No Case Of Interference": Delhi Court On Curbs On Use Of Apps By Army
If the government has concluded that permitting use of certain social networking websites, including Facebook and Instagram, by its defence personnel is enabling enemy countries gain an edge, the courts would be loath to interfere with the decision, the Delhi High Court said on Wednesday.
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Twitter Experiences Global Outage, Leaving Thousands Unable to Tweet
Twitter, after experiencing a worldwide service disruption preventing users from sending tweets from the social networking platform's app, website, or TweetDeck is now finally back online.
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SonyLIV Fixes Flaw That Could Let Attackers Fetch Sensitive User Information
SonyLIV has fixed a security flaw that existed in one of its APIs used for login functions. The flaw could have allowed attackers to fetch sensitive user information such as profile picture, email address, date of birth, and phone number of SonyLIV’s registered users.
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A New Browser Gives Legal Access To Facebook, YouTube, Twitter In China
Many international social media websites are banned in China, and using special software called a virtual private network (VPN) to access them can sometimes lead to jail time.
