Category Technology
He was hired to build a fake news op but now wants to put things right. Ax Sharma – 1 This is the story of the mastermind behind one of the largest “fake news” operations in the US. For two… Continue Reading →
Date:13th October, 2021 CR stations from 10 Indian states presented their work and the challenges they faced on account of the COVID-19 pandemic today in an online meeting attended by more than 75 CR stations. The public meeting also included… Continue Reading →
By David Shepardson and Diane Bartz WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers pounded Facebook (FB.O) on Tuesday, accusing CEO Mark Zuckerberg of pushing for higher profits while being cavalier about user safety and they demanded regulators investigate whistleblower accusations that the social media company harms children… Continue Reading →
Self-Destructing Messages / Apps or ephemeral messages are those messages which “disappear” once the recipient of such message has seen or read the message! Some apps allow one to exchange SMS, messages, and media files without worrying about message history… Continue Reading →
BY WILLIAM HARTUNG The costs and consequences of America’s twenty-first-century wars have by now been well-documented — a staggering $8 trillion in expenditures and more than 380,000 civilian deaths, as calculated by Brown University’s Costs of War project. The question of who has… Continue Reading →
Posted On September 18, 2021 The democratisation of the internet has enabled anti-caste and/or feminist voices from oppressed communities, who were earlier denied a platform, to express their political, social and cultural opinions. Director Shankar’s debut film Gentleman, released in… Continue Reading →
And why foreign policy should pay more heed to half of humanity After america and its allies toppled the Taliban in 2001, primary-school enrolment of Afghan girls rose from 0% to above 80%. Infant mortality fell by half. Forced marriage was… Continue Reading →
Democracy Now As the United States ends a 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, a former intelligence analyst for the CIA’s drone program offers an apology to the people of Afghanistan “from not only myself, but from the rest of our society… Continue Reading →
“AI doesn’t have to be evil to destroy humanity – if AI has a goal and humanity just happens to come in the way, it will destroy humanity as a matter of course without even thinking about it, no hard… Continue Reading →
(New York) – Human Rights Watch joined Access Now, Amnesty International USA, and Mnemonic today in issuing the following statement, saying that social media platforms need to preserve and archive content that may provide evidence of past or ongoing serious… Continue Reading →