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Linking of User Profile With Aadhaar: SC to Hear Facebook's Pleas on Privacy
20 Aug 2019
The top court issued notice to the Centre, Google, Twitter, YouTube and others and sought their response by September 13.
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…
Sevanti Ninan
How India’s Media Landscape Changed Over Five Years
12 Jun 2019
The five-year period of 2014-2019 has seen such an explosion of media creation and media use in India that the answer to the question, who is the media, has become, literally, everybody.
WhatsApp Mass Messaging and NaMo TV: BJP Bending or Breaking Election Rules?
20 Apr 2019
BJP’s use of automated, mass messaging on WhatsApp, and political campaigning on NaMo TV has thrown up a serious challenge to the EC. How will it respond?
Prabir Purkayastha
Digital Monopoly Platforms, Modi Regime and Threat to Our Democracy
12 Apr 2019
An urgent appeal released by a joint platform of five civil society organisations noted that the threat of digital platforms today lies in their ability to influence people’s behaviour on a large…
Newsclick Report
Elections 2019: Monitor Online Spending by Political Parties, Digital Platforms
05 Apr 2019
A joint platform of civil society groups, digital rights organisations, former public servants and former Chief Election Commissioners has drafted an action plan for the EC.
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Part 1 : Fake News is Being Used to Whip up Jingoism
08 Mar 2019
The WhatsApp armies of political parties, especially the right-wing ecosystem, have become hyper-active in the run-up to the elections, says Pratik Sinha, Founder-Editor, Alt News, in an exclusive…
Subhash Gatade
‘Patriotism’ Made Easy in Times of ‘WhatsApp Elections’
05 Mar 2019
A WhatsApp-sponsored report, prepared in partnership with Queen Mary University, has raised the alarm that the 2019 elections in India, which already has cleavages on lines of caste, race, gender,…
Malvika Singh
Social Media, Messaging Apps Flooded with Fake News After Pulwama Attack
19 Feb 2019
Meanwhile, journalists are being threatened by right wing elements.
Peoples Dispatch
German Antitrust Body Orders Facebook to Stop Expansive Collection of Data
15 Feb 2019
The Bundeskartellamt noted that only two options for users are to either agree to the extensive and intrusive data collection, or not create an account with the social media giant. This kind of…