This year when legislators in Italy came up with a bill to make hate crime against LGBT community punishable, the Vatican nation got divided. The bill was brought after repeated verbal and physical assaults on the community, but many in the country opposed it as they were not able to accept LGBT norms in a […]
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During Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001, the organization completely banned the use of internet and destroyed the citizen’s phones, televisions and cameras in a bid to keep technology out of reach for them. However this approach was drastically changed when their leaders realized just how many avenues the internet opens for those […]
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Humans who designed search engines and algorithms behind those are now increasingly falling prey to the same.The algorithms are like a stray yet mysterious spider, which nobody knows which way will go or what direction and to what extent will cast its web.Several companies around the world are reaping benefits of this uncontrolled means by […]
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Nisar Ahmed Around the world, and more specifically in India, disinformation is spreading and becoming a successful phenomenon of deception. The Covid-19 pandemic has shown how fast and wide information can spread: so fast, that the phenomenon has been given the name, “infodemic”. This disinformation, in Indian context, is broadly categorised into two — fake […]
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Mohd Fahad Populist leaders want us to believe that news they don’t like or news they want to reject is fake simply because it is critical of them and their policies. The world is littered with such examples. As they are popular, almost cult-like, in their personalities, their fanbase, their voters tend to believe all […]
Continue ReadingFamed separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani passed away at the age of 92 on September 1, 2021. He advocated for Kashmir to be separated from India and faced a lot of flack from the right wing community in India. Upon his death, several memes and messages were posted on social media. Some celebrated his […]
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On July 28, 2021, three hashtags were trending on Twitter. These three hashtags were #सुदर्शन_एक_बाप_की_औलाद_नहीं (Sudarshan does not have a father), #सुदर्शन_गद्दारों_का_बाप_है(Sudarshan is the father of all traitors) and #ArrestSureshChavhanke. These hashtags were all trending simultaneously with various heinous comments made on the TV channel Sudarshan News and its owner Suresh Chavhanke as people accused […]
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A ‘journalist’ going by the “काकावाणी” on Twitter has a notorious history with social media use. Currently, his handle @007QaQaAli has 15.5k followers on Twitter. He also has an Instagram and a Facebook account with massive followings. His Instagram handle is @007alisohrab and has 76,300 followers. On the other hand, his Facebook account has a […]
Continue ReadingTwo days ago, a news clipping of Indian Olympic javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra’s interview started to go viral on social media. In an interview with Time of India, Chopra said, “ “I was searching for my javelin at the start of the final (in Olympics). I was not able to find it. Suddenly, I saw […]
Continue ReadingOn August 23, 2021 the hashtag #हिंदुस्तान_धर्मशाला_नहीं_है (translation: Hindustan is not a public shelter) started trending on Twitter. Within a couple of hours the hashtag occupied a spot on India’s list of trending hashtags with over 20,000 tweets and retweets. Timeline of the tweets: The first instance of this hashtag was used on December 26, […]
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