New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) Meta has admitted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s video on Facebook was removed in error and said it has now been restored as the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) summoned the global heads of Meta and Instagram over the brief blocking of the content, according to a statement on Tuesday.”The content was removed in error and has since been restored,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement.The video — released on July 23 — marked Prime Mini…
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Mumbai, July 27 (IANS) Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has approached the Bombay High Court with a defamation suit against alleged AI-generated deepfake videos and misleading social media posts linking him and his family to the Centre’s E20 ethanol blending policy.The High Court has admitted the petition and scheduled a hearing on Gadkari’s plea seeking interim relief. The plea has sought injunction against the circulation of the disputed content.Gadkari has made soc…
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Media Head Praveen Shankar Kapoor on Thursday condemned a post on social media platform X by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Delhi Convenor Saurabh Bharadwaj, in which he allegedly threatened Meta and WhatsApp. Kapoor said that Bharadwaj is a hypocritical leader who, out of sheer obstinacy, tries to prove every statement he makes to be correct, but this time he has picked the wrong target.Bharadwaj’s statement alleging that the accounts of peopl…
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) Uber Technologies has reduced nearly 10 per cent of its customer service workforce as the ride-hailing company reshapes its operations around artificial intelligence (AI) and a leaner organisational structure, according to multiple reports.The latest job cuts affect employees in Uber’s community operations division, which handles customer support, they added.Reports suggest the company is also requiring remote employees in the unit to relocate to designated hub offices …
New Delhi, July 22 (IANS) Meta-owned Instagram suffered a widespread service disruption on Wednesday evening, leaving thousands of users unable to access key features of the social media platform, including messaging, profile loading and content updates.According to outage tracking platform Downdetector, reports of issues rose sharply during the evening.Complaints increased to 1,993 at around 7:13 p.m., up from 436 reports recorded roughly an hour earlier.By 7:44 p.m., the number of reported inc…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) The government on Monday said that it has not found evidence of any critical loss of information following the recent cyber security incident involving Tata Electronics.Speaking at the launch of the latest Digital Threat Report, Electronics and Information Technology Secretary S. Krishnan said Tata Electronics is working closely with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to address the incident.”Tata Electronics is working closely with MeitY. Ba…
New Delhi, July 11 (IANS) US-based technology giant Meta said it has discontinued a feature that allows users to generate AI images using content from public Instagram accounts after public backlash within 3 days of its launch.“Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way. We’ve heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so it’s no longer available,” the company said.The feature wa…
New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) Messaging platform Telegram has submitted its reply to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s (MeitY) notice on its ‘username’ feature, following a similar response from WhatsApp, according to sources.The government is currently examining the submissions made by both messaging platforms, according to them.The ‘username’ feature allows users to communicate without sharing their mobile phone numbers, a functionality that has drawn the Centre’s attention …
New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) Meta-owned WhatsApp has reportedly submitted its response to the Centre’s notice regarding its proposed ‘username’ feature, and the government is currently examining the reply.The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) had issued a notice to WhatsApp last week, expressing concerns that the proposed feature could potentially increase incidents of online fraud, phishing, digital-arrest scams and impersonation attacks.The government had also directed th…
New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) The government will take a view on further action against Meta after examining the company’s formal response to a notice issued over Child Sexual Exploitative and Abuse Material (CSEAM) allegedly promoted through paid advertisements on Instagram, IT Secretary S. Krishnan said on Thursday.Speaking on the sidelines of the CII GCC Business Summit here, Krishnan said the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) is awaiting Meta’s formal reply before decidin…