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India's ShareChat raises $502 mn from Snap, Twitter, others: Details here

The funding was led by U.S. venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners and American investment firm Tiger, ShareChat said in a statement on Thursday

Holocaust survivors across world harness social media to spread message

Holocaust survivors from around the world are taking to social media to share their experience of how hate speech paved the way for mass murder

Saregama inks global music licensing deal with short video platform Triller

Saregama on Tuesday announced a global music licensing deal with short format video platform Triller

Supreme Court Justice in US suggests regulations for social media platforms

Justice Clarence Thomas said that Congress should consider whether laws should be updated to better regulate social media platforms that have "unbridled control" over "unprecedented" amounts of speech

Audio app Clubhouse floats payments feature for creators to monetise

Audio-chat app Clubhouse said it will launch a monetisation feature for its creators on the platform and that it will not receive any payment from it

How to set-up Facebook tools to control comments on posts, filter News Feed

Facebook's new tools give its user more control over what they share and see on the social media platform

Twitter now lets users add stickers to Fleets: Know how it works, and more

Twitter announced that the new Fleets feature is now available for users on both the Android and iOS platforms

Koo has a 'stronger network' than its bigger rival Twitter, says study

The finding was made in a study titled 'Koo: The new king? Characterising India's emerging social network'

We The Future (WTF) Founder Kunal Sood uses Clubhouse as a Force for Good in the World

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Chinese investor Shunwei Capital exits parent company of Twitter-clone Koo

Existing investors and a clutch of prominent individuals bought out the firm's minority stake

No proposal to appoint regulator for social media: Union Minister Prasad

The government on Wednesday informed Parliament that there is no proposal with the IT ministry to set up a regulator for social media

Social media platforms' staff not been threatened of jail term: IT Ministry

The government has never threatened employees of any social media platform, such as Twitter, of jail term, the IT Ministry has said

Mozilla, Internet Society flag concerns over new crules

Concerns include increased surveillance

Bureaucrats may misuse vast powers of new social media rules: Congress

The Congress Saturday alleged the government has brought 'non-statutory' guidelines without Parliament's assent to control social media platforms

New rules for social media, OTT require right implementation: Nasscom

IT industry body Nasscom on Friday said the new rules will require the right implementation to ensure they don't become onerous for the platforms

Giving users more control can help build trust in tech: Facebook

Companies being more transparent about their frameworks, Facebook India Managing Director Ajit Mohan said

Conveyed to Indian govt our commitment to protect privacy: WhatsApp

This comes hours after announcing the decision to go ahead with its controversial privacy policy update

Twitter-rival Koo surpasses 4 mn users in a jiffy; 1 mn added in a week

The app surpassed the milestone in nearly 10 months of its arrival

Facebook blocks news in Australia in warning for the world

The social media platform's 17 million users in Australia are now unable to share any news

Russia joins India to seek alternative to microblogging titan Twitter

This comes after Twitter was used to support protesters backing Russian dissident Alexei Navalny