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Weekend Bites: Cook serves his own India recipe, and the wailing over ticks

In which we munch over the week's platter of news and views

Rahul to Kohli: Celebs see red after Twitter accounts lose blue tick

Accounts of top Indian brands including HDFC Bank, Maruti Suzuki, Axis Bank, TVS, Swiggy, and PhonePe remained without a verification tag till the time of going to press on Friday

Twitter asks companies to pay for check marks, spend monthly to advertise

Businesses that already spend $1,000 a month on ads will be allowed to continue and will be given a gold check mark, the company added

HC reserves verdict on Twitter plea against govt's account blocking order

Twitter challenged the government orders claiming that they are arbitrary, and procedurally and substantively not in consonance with Section 69A of the IT Act

Twitter removes blue tick from celebrities' accounts across the world

Elon Musk-owned microblogging platform removed the blue verification badge from celebrities' accounts across the globe. They need to pay subscription fees to continue using blue tick

Twitter removes legacy blue ticks for thousands; all you need to know

From Virat Kohli to Shah Rukh Khan, microblogging site Twitter on Thursday removed blue ticks for those who did not pay for the Twitter Blue package

SRK to CM Adityanath: List of Indians who lost blue tick on Twitter

Micro-blogging site Twitter on Thursday removed the legacy verified blue ticks from all accounts

Top headlines: MPC meet, Tim Cook in India & end of free Twitter blue tick

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End to Twitter's legacy blue checkmarks; Pope losses tick, LeBron retains

The move has already spurred confusion. Celebrities, government officials and other notable users that choose not to pay $8 per month for Twitter Blue, the premium version, have lost the checkmark

Deepfake detection is one corner of AI technology that isn't booming

Experts agree there's undue attention on AI generation and not enough on detection, said Claire Leibowicz, head of the AI and Media Integrity Program at nonprofit organization The Partnership on AI

Twitter to remove legacy verified ticks: Here's how you can retain them

Twitter will start removing legacy verified checkmarks for individual and verified organisations from today i.e. on April 20

Tesla chief Elon Musk threatens to sue Microsoft for using data 'illegally'

Earlier, Microsoft announced that its Digital Marketing Centre platform will 'no longer support Twitter' from April 25

Twitter 'quietly' removes policy against deadnaming transgender people

Twitter has quietly removed a policy against the targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals, raising concerns that the Elon Musk-owned platform is becoming less safe for marginalised groups. Twitter enacted the policy against deadnaming, or using a transgender person's name before they transitioned, as well as purposefully using the wrong gender for someone as a form of harassment, in 2018. On Monday, Twitter also said it will only put warning labels on some tweets that are potentially in violation of its rules against hateful conduct. Previously, the tweets were removed. It was in this policy update that Twitter appears to have deleted the line against deadnaming from its rules. Twitter's decision to covertly roll back its longtime policy is the latest example of just how unsafe the company is for users and advertisers alike, said Sarah Kate Ellis, the president and CEO of the advocacy group GLAAD. This decision to roll back LGBTQ safety pulls Twitter even mor

Elon Musk's Twitter to label, limit visibility of 'hateful' tweets

Twitter said the latest update on its enforcement policies is based on a philosophy of "Freedom of Speech, Not Reach"

Freedom of speech not 'freedom of reach', Twitter to restrict visibility

Social media platform Twitter will allow freedom of speech but not "freedom of reach" as it will restrict visibility of tweets that violate its rules, the company said in its policy update. Twitter will initially apply the visibility filter on tweets that are found violating hateful conduct rules and expand it to other domains later. The social media firm said that Twitter users have the right to express their opinions and ideas without fear of censorship. "We also believe it is our responsibility to keep users on our platform safe from content violating our rules. These beliefs are the foundation of freedom of speech, not freedom of reach -- our enforcement philosophy which means, where appropriate, restricting the reach of tweets that violate our policies by making the content less discoverable," the firm said. The sample screenshot shared an example of visibility restriction of tweets that may violate Twitter's rule against hateful conduct. "Restricting the reach of tweets, als

Twitter adds more 'govt-funded' labels to global media, faces outcry

The micro-blogging platform earlier placed the 'publicly-funded' label to the BBC account and applied the 'government-funded' label to US-based NPR

Twitter will now label 'hateful' tweets, make them less discoverable

The labels are only implemented at "tweet level" and won't affect a user's account

Canadian Broadcasting Corp 'pause' Twitter after 'govt-funded media' label

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation paused its use of Twitter on Monday after the social media platform owned by Elon Musk stamped CBC's account with a label the public broadcaster says is intended to undermine its credibility. Twitter labelled CBC/Radio-Canada "government-funded media" the same label that prompted National Public Radio in the US to similarly quit Twitter last Wednesday. Twitter can be a powerful tool for our journalists to communicate with Canadians, but it undermines the accuracy and professionalism of the work they do to allow our independence to be falsely described in this way, CBC spokesman Leon Mar said in a statement announcing the change Monday afternoon. Consequently, we will be pausing our activity on our corporate Twitter account and all CBC and Radio-Canada news-related accounts," the statement said. CBC has sent a letter to Twitter asking the company to re-examine the designation. CBC does not meet those criteria, Mar argued, because it is publicl

Why was this woman with a face painting denied entry into Golden Temple?

Amid the ongoing controversy, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has now issued a clarification in relation to the incident

Varun Gandhi files defamation suit against man for comment on Sanjay Gandhi

BJP leader Varun Gandhi on Saturday filed a defamation case in a local court here against a Varanasi man for allegedly making derogatory remarks on his father on Twitter. The Pilibhit MP on Saturday came to the court premises with three advocates around 3 pm and filed a defamation case before Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (II) Abhinav Tiwari. The court recorded his statement and fixed April 25 as the next date for hearing, an advocate said. Gandhi in the complaint said that his father Late Sanjay Gandhi was a well known politician of the country and he was respected all over the country and still is today. He told the court that on March 29, 2023, Vivek Pandey, a resident of Bhojubir of Varanasi district, had made indecent remarks against Sanjay Gandhi through his social media Twitter @vivekkumar IND. According to Gandhi, the accused identified himself as the General Secretary of Nationalist Hindu and Kisan Morcha. Gandhi also said that he was informed about the tweet by t