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Prabir Purkayastha
What Is Ravishankar Prasad Hiding on WhatsApp Hack?
08 Nov 2019
Why is our IT Minister, instead of ordering a criminal investigation into the hacking of WhatsApp platform and citizens’ smartphones, hiding behind the plea that others did it first?
Newsclick Team
Mystery Behind Rafale, US Withdraws Troops from Syria and More
09 Oct 2019
In this episode of Daily Round-up, we talk about the twist in the Rafale deal and Anganwadi workers’ protest in Jharkhand.
AFP
Social Media Giants, Led by Facebook, Beef up Steps to Fight ‘Extremist’ Content
24 Sep 2019
The board of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism will be led by the tech industry, with non-governmental groups heading an advisory board.
AFP
Twitter CEO’s Account Hacked, Offensive Tweets Posted
31 Aug 2019
The messages contained racial epithets and included a retweet of a message supporting Nazi Germany.
Prabir Purkayastha
Hacking Elections: Tales From Far and Near
02 Aug 2019
The Netflix film, The Great Hack, focuses on Cambridge Analytica and the Trump elections, and also registers the role of a global right-wing network in influencing elections using big money and their…
Abir Dasgupta, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Election Commission Failed to Curb Fake News Online Before 2019 Lok Sabha Polls
30 Jul 2019
Caught in the midst of a high-stakes battle on the future of regulating the internet, the EC tried and failed miserably to regulate online propaganda, political campaigning, and fake news prior to…
PTI
US Trade Commission Sues Cambridge Analytica for Duping Facebook Users
25 Jul 2019
The UK-based data company is accused of acquiring data from up to 87 million Facebook profiles for use in political campaigns around the world.
Jai Vipra
What’s up with Libra? Everything That Should Concern Us About Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency
02 Jul 2019
The central problem with Libra is not that it is not decentralized; it is that it is not accountable to all the people that it will affect.
Prasanth R.
Decoding Facebook's Libra
28 Jun 2019
Newsclick's Prabir Purkayastha talks about Facebook's latest venture, Libra, which is being pegged as a cryptocurrency
Prabir Purkayastha
Facebook’s Funny Money – Facebucks – and Real Money
28 Jun 2019
What the Facebookers will be doing, by buying Libra or Facebucks, is increasing the pile of liquid money for Facebook.