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Twitter ‘Verified’ next week, all accounts to be manually authenticated: Musk
New Delhi: Elon Musk on Friday said Twitter will tentitavily relaunch ‘Verified’ service on Friday next week and all verified accounts will be “manually authenticated before check activates”. The new Twitter owner…
- Business
Up to 4.78mn Xbox accounts proactively suspended: Microsoft transparency report
San Francisco: Microsoft has released its first Digital Transparency Report for the Xbox gaming platform, in which it revealed that the company took proactive action against throwaway accounts that violated its community…
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Twitter bans over 54K accounts in India for promoting sexual content, terror
New Delhi: Twitter banned 52,141 accounts in India for promoting child sexual exploitation, non-consensual nudity and allied content between August 26 and September 25. The micro-blogging platform, now owned by Elon Musk,…
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Instagram fixes outage that tells users their account is suspended
San Francisco: Instagram has announced that an outage which told users that their account is suspended is now fixed by the company. Thousands of Instagram users from all over the world reported…
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WhatsApp bans 23 lakh bad accounts in India as new PDP bill takes shape
New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp on Saturday said it banned over 23 lakh accounts in India in the month of August in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021. The messaging platform, which…
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Meta to make it easier to switch between FB, Instagram accounts
San Francisco: Meta announced that it is testing new ways for people to more easily switch between and create new accounts and profiles on Facebook and Instagram globally for iOS, Android and…
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Instagram takes down PornHub’s official account
San Francisco: Meta-owned Instagram has taken down the official account for adult entertainment website PornHub amid pressure from the civil rights groups. The company, however, did not reveal the reason behind the…
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Twitter bans over 45K accounts in India for violating guidelines
New Delhi: Twitter, which is locked in a legal battle with the Indian government over content blocking orders, banned 45,191 accounts of the Indian users in the month of July over violation…
- Business
Credit growth outpaced deposit growth of banks in June: RBI
Chennai: Credit growth outpaced deposit growth for commercial banks in June, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in its quarterly statistics on deposit and credit of commercial banks for June 2022…
- India
Karnataka: HC issues notice to Centre for asking Twitter to block 1,100 accounts
Bengaluru: Karnataka High Court on Tuesday issued a notice to the ruling BJP government at the Centre in connection with the order asking to block nearly 1,100 Twitter accounts by the Ministry of…
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Twitter, Instagram remove accounts of suspect in US shooting: Report
San Francisco: Social media sites, including Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Discord, have moved quickly to remove accounts that appeared to belong to Robert Crimo III, a person of interest in the Chicago…
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Twitter bans over 46K bad accounts in India in May
New Delhi: Twitter banned more than 46,000 accounts of Indian users in May over violation of its guidelines, the microblogging platform said in its monthly compliance report on Sunday. According to the…
- Business
Large borrowers’ loan accounts and bad loans decline: RBI
Chennai: The share of large borrowers for scheduled commercial banks (SCB) has declined in the recent times while their share in the gross non-performing assets (GNPA) also went down, said the Reserve…
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WhatsApp says banned over 19 lakh bad accounts in India in May
New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp on Friday said that it banned over 19 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of May in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021. The platform…
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WhatsApp bans over 16.6 lakh bad accounts in India in April
New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp on Wednesday said that it banned over 16.6 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of April in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021. The platform had…
