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News in the Time of Blackouts and Curbs on Social Media
25 Aug 2018
When small publications and news websites try to bring out the news that is shaping India, why does the Centre feel threatened?
Siva Vaidhyanathan
Anti Social Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy
18 Aug 2018
In Antisocial Media: Anti-Social Media How Facebook Disconnects Us, Siva Vaidhyanathan explains that Facebook may make personal lives pleasurable, but it can also deteriorate democracy around the…
Prabir Purkayastha
Lynch Mobs: What WhatsApp Will Not Do and BJP Won’t Ask
12 Jul 2018
It is time the people – in this country and elsewhere – raise the issue of how to control these tech monopolies, which are changing our social behaviour and modifying our political choices.
Seema Mustafa
What Would I Do If Mr Shah Knocked on My Front Door?
14 Jun 2018
Editor and my mentor Kuldip Nayar recently entertained Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah at his residence.
Arijit Sengupta
Facebook in Trouble, Again
06 Jun 2018
The social media giant signed an agreement with hardware firms that allowed the latter to extract data from users’ profiles and even that of their friends and friends of friends.
Pavan Kulkarni / The Dawn News
New Data Protection Rules Come into Effect; Complaints Registered Against FB, Google
26 May 2018
The law requires firms to obtain consumers’ active consent before collecting data.
Prasanth R.
Mark On the Stand Aka The Art Of Saying Nothing
13 Apr 2018
The Facebook CEO’s appearance before Congress points to the difficulties governments have in regulating data giants.
Newsclick Report
Facebook “Improperly Shared” 87 Million Users’ Private Data
06 Apr 2018
This includes 5.6 lakh Indian users’ private information.
Pavan Kulkarni
Cambridge Analytica: a Frankenstein’s Monster Raised from the Deep Bowels of Anglo-American Defense Establishment
30 Mar 2018
The Cambridge Analytica scandal is a telling tale in the dangers of privatizing military intelligence
Cambridge Analytica and its Deeper Links
30 Mar 2018
Prabir walks us through the more dangerous trends of how the big businesses which own these companies, have backed Trump.