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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
While the Supreme Court has given Facebook a reprieve, it is increasingly clear that India is getting shoddy treatment from the social media company.
In what can only be dubbed a public relations exercise ahead of the November US elections, 16 years after it was founded and 2.4 billion users later, Facebook on Monday said that it will explicitly ban any content that “denies or distorts” the Holocaust. This, after years of letting people get away with claiming that the Holocaust never happened.
The Western world has hailed this as progress. A step in the right direction for a company which has long held that its platform is not the arbiter of truth, even while it has been used for the most despicable acts, …
The homegrown social startup is betting big on India’s latest content obsession—minute-long episodes of high-stakes dramas. Cut through the noise and the microdrama hype itself doesn’t add up.
The framework reads less like an agreement between partners and more like a probation order written by the stronger side.
It’s never a good sign when your foreign minister needs a lobbyist to meet US officials. The recent events signal a breakdown in the Modi government’s ability to operate in today’s Washington through its own machinery.
