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Russia’s financial monitoring agency, Rosfinmonitoring, has added US tech giant Meta to its list of “terrorists and extremists”, Russian news agencies reported on Tuesday. A Moscow court in June rejected an appeal by Meta – owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp – after it was found guilty of “extremist activity” in Russia in March. In court,

Just before Elon Musk revived his proposal to buy Twitter last week, the billionaire accused the company of ordering a whistle-blower to destroy evidence of its missteps as part of a $7.8 million (roughly Rs. 64 crore) severance package. Peiter Zatko, Twitter’s ex-head of security, said he burned 10 handwritten notebooks and deleted 100 computer

Several users of Meta’s Facebook are complaining losing majority of their followers on the social media platform due to unknown reasons. Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has lost over 119 million followers which has brought down his follower count to below 10,000. “Facebook created a tsunami that wiped away my almost 900,000 followers and

YouTube has introduced unique handles for account holders which will now appear on channel pages and Shorts, the company said on Monday. Users will now be able to easily identify creators by their username, and tag them in comments, community posts, video descriptions, and other sections of YouTube that allow for user interaction. Handles will

WhatsApp is reportedly working on increasing the number of participants allowed in a single group chat from the previous limit of 512 to 1024 members, and the Meta-owned instant messaging and voice-over-IP service has begun testing larger groups with some users on the beta channel. The service previously increased the group chat participant limit from

Google Play Points — the company’s Play Store rewards initiative — is coming to India. The reward programme that allows users to earn points for every action they do on the Google Play marketplace, from downloading new apps to subscribing to services, books and more will start rolling out in the coming weeks. The Google

Elon Musk was sued by a Twitter investor who says the world’s richest person’s on-again-off-again purchase of the social media platform and his public attacks on the company were designed to manipulate its stock price. Giuseppe Pampena says that when Musk agreed last week to go ahead with his purchase of Twitter, at the originally

PayPal Holdings said it has no intention of fining customers for spreading misinformation, after attracting criticism for publishing a new user agreement outlining such a plan. The issue gained traction over the weekend after the company published policy updates prohibiting users from using the PayPal service for activities identified by the company as “the sending,

Instant messaging and calling service WhatsApp premium subscription service has not officially launched yet; however, it is now available for beta users. According to a report by WABetaInfo, this means that only the WhatsApp beta programme members can access the Premium menu, where all the extra features reside. As per the report, the premium subscription

Instagram and Twitter said they have restricted the accounts of US rapper Kanye West over posts slammed as anti-Semitic. A spokeswoman for Twitter told AFP on Sunday that West’s account was locked due to a violation of the social media platform’s policies. And a spokesperson for Instagram parent Meta told AFP the group had deleted

Twitter has reportedly started asking users who take screenshots of tweets to share a link to the tweet instead. The microblogging service appears to be detecting screenshots taken on the app, prompting users to copy a link to the tweet, or use the share menu to send the tweet to other users. The feature is

Elon Musk’s sudden about face on a $44 billion (nearly Rs. 3,59,200 crore) agreement to acquire Twitter, reversing an earlier attempt to rescind that offer, came as a surprise even from the mercurial billionaire who loves to shock. It sent shares of the social media platform soaring Tuesday and stoked alarm among some media watchdogs

The judge presiding over Twitter’s legal battle to hold Elon Musk to his $44-billion buyout deal said Wednesday the case was still on course for trial — despite the billionaire’s apparent U-turn. Neither Twitter nor Musk have asked the court to put the case on hold, so “I, therefore, continue to press on toward our

A Delaware judge on Thursday ordered a halt to Twitter Inc’s lawsuit against Elon Musk on the eve of trial, giving the billionaire time to finance his $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,60,300 crore) takeover of the social media platform. The ruling followed days of uncertainty about Musk’s intentions and removed the threat that the erratic entrepreneur would have

Elon Musk bought himself some time on Thursday, after a judge accepted the billionaire’s request to halt a Twitter lawsuit to allow him to close his proposed $44 billion ((roughly Rs. 3,62,500 crore) buyout of the social media company by October 28. Now comes the big question: how will he pay for it? Musk said

Twitter is gradually making the edit button available for its paid subscribers in the United States, the social media company said on Thursday, days after launching the widely requested feature in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In an official tweet, Twitter announced that it is expanding the Edit Tweet test to the US, currently limited

Apollo Global Management and Sixth Street Partners, which were looking to provide financing to Elon Musk earlier this year for his proposed $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,60,300 crore) buyout of Twitter, are no longer in talks with the billionaire entrepreneur, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Earlier this year, Apollo was in talks to

Audio-streaming service Spotify Technology on Wednesday said it had acquired Kinzen, a firm that has helped it identify harmful content on the platform. The acquisition is part of Spotify‘s efforts to deal with harmful content on its service after a backlash earlier this year over “The Joe Rogan Experience”, in which the podcaster was accused

Facebook parent Meta Platforms will soon ask some users for more direct feedback on what they like to see in their feed — and what they don’t — as part of a broader effort to compete with TikTok and show people posts from users they don’t follow. Users will soon see “show more” and “show

As the debate over bots on Twitter plays out in the courts of Chancery and public opinion, another social media company is being forced to tackle scams that pose a far bigger risk to users. LinkedIn has become the latest target of inauthentic accounts with perpetrators appearing to be far more sophisticated and cunning than