Elon Musk has put Twitter at risk of billions of dollars in fines, a company lawyer has warned, as chief privacy officer Damien Kieran, chief information security officer Lea Kissner, and chief compliance officer Marianne Fogarty have all quit in the fresh wave of resignations.
Category: Social Media
Some Twitter India employees sacked, remaining staff in constant fear
For some of the nearly 200-strong Twitter India workforce, the Friday morning came with utter chaos when they lost access to their official emails and internal Slack and group chats, as they were unfortunate to be part of the global sacking in the most brutal Elon Musk way.
Twitter to be delisted from New York Stock Exchange on Nov 8
Twitter's new owner Elon Musk has taken the micro-blogging website private and the company's stock will be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange on November 8, a new filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has revealed.
Musk is now Twitter boss, fires Indian-origin CEO Agrawal, other top execs
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has finally taken over as Twitter boss and his first job was to reportedly fire Indian-origin CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, the company's policy chief Vijaya Gadde and others.
Indian festivities spark up more conversation among daters
According to a survey by dating app QuackQuack, usage of the app significantly increased during celebrations. "We noticed a spike in app downloads at the start of October.
WhatsApp's cloned app spying on Indians via recording video, audio
India is among the countries with highest number of Android trojan detections and a cloned, third-party unofficial version of WhatsApp is leading in spying on people's chats in the country, a new report has warned.
Twitter had Chinese agent on payroll, India forced it to hire govt agents: Zatko
Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko on Tuesday claimed that the Parag Agrawal-led platform hired a Chinese agent working for the country's Ministry of State Security (MSS), and reiterated that the Indian government also "forced" Twitter to hire government agents.
90% of comments on my Twitter account are bots: Musk
Dan Woods, Global Head of Intelligence at cybersecurity company F5, told The Australian that more than 80 per cent of Twitter accounts are probably bots -- a massive claim as Twitter says only 5 per cent of its users are bots/spams.
Irish regulator fines Instagram $402 mn over kids' privacy violation
Meta-owned photo and video-sharing platform Instagram has been fined 405 million euros ($402 million) by the Irish Data Protection Commission for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation.
Biggest regret is that Twitter has become a company: Jack Dorsey
Meanwhile, Twitter's former head of security, Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, has claimed that the Agrawal-led platform lied about the actual number of bots on its platform and misled federal regulators about users' safety, creating a storm.
Twitter tells Tharoor-led parliamentary panel it follows strict data privacy
The committee will hear the views of individual/stakeholder/experts on issues related to digital platforms, technology and Gig economy relating to the subject of citizens' data security and privacy.
India-based social media accounts linked to anti-Pak army campaign: Islamabad
A joint inquiry team formed by the Pakistan government has detected a total of 774 social media accounts responsible for a bulk of the misleading claims and smear campaign against the military, with many of them found to be operating from India as well as from within the country.
Musk dares Twitter CEO for open debate on fake accounts
Amid the ongoing legal dispute over the $44 billion takeover deal to buy Twitter, tech mogul Elon Musk has challenged the platform's CEO Parag Agrawal to have a public debate on fake accounts and spam.
Elon Musk's claims factually inaccurate, legally insufficient: Twitter
Twitter has filed a detailed response to Tesla CEO Elon Musk's countersuit against the micro-blogging platform, saying his claims are "factually inaccurate, legally insufficient, and commercially irrelevant".
TikTok showing child sexual abuse videos to content moderators: Report
"These parents don't know that we have this picture, this video, this trauma, this crime saved. If parents knew that, I'm pretty sure they would burn TikTok down," Whitney Turner, former moderator for TikTok, was quoted as saying in the report that came out on Friday.
Twitter fixes bug that exposed at least 54 lakh accounts
The company said that while no passwords were exposed, "we encourage everyone who uses Twitter to enable two-factor authentication using authentication apps or hardware security keys to protect your account from unauthorized logins".
Musk says Twitter must follow law of the land in India
Twitter last moved the Karnataka High Court against the Indian government's order to take down some content on its platform, on the grounds that the content blocking orders from the IT Ministry do not pass "the test of the grounds provided under Section 69A of the IT Act".
Meta brings its latest AI chatbot on web
BlenderBot 3 is able to engage in general chitchat, said Meta, but also answer the sort of queries you might ask a digital assistant, "from talking about healthy food recipes to finding child-friendly amenities in the city", the report said.
Twitter drags Elon Musk's billionaire buddies into legal battle
Twitter has now dragged tech investors and entrepreneur friends connected to Elon Musk in the $44 billion takeover deal that has been terminated by the Tesla CEO and a legal trial is set to begin from October 17.
Tinder CEO departs after disappointing results, company stops metaverse plans
"While we search for a permanent Tinder CEO, I will oversee a newly formed team of executives who will manage day-to-day operations and will ensure the Tinder organisation is well coordinated, ships great new features at increased velocity and delivers on Tinder's promise," said Kim.
Meta sued for using tracking tool to access patients' data for ads
Patients alleged in the lawsuits that their medical information was sent to Facebook by the Meta Pixel tool, who were later "served advertisements targeted to her heart and knee conditions".
Twitter bans 43,140 accounts in India for violating norms
Twitter, which is fighting a legal battle with the Indian government over content blocking orders, banned more than 43,140 accounts of Indian users in the month of June over violation of its guidelines, the microblogging platform said in its monthly compliance report on Tuesday.
Meta brings new monetisation tool for Facebook creators
"We are introducing Music Revenue Sharing on Facebook, making it easier for creators to monetise their videos that use licensed music from popular and emerging artists like Post Malone, Tove Lo, Grupo La Cambia, Leah Kate, Bicep and more," the company said in a blogpost.
Meta's fact-checking programme will now include more Indian languages
The partnership will help connect people to accurate and verified information and enhance Meta's fact-checking capabilities in regional Indian languages including Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and Tamil, the company said.
Twitter can also be made liable for fraudulent disclosure on bots, thinks Musk
In a tweet to Musk, a follower wrote to Musk that under the SEC Rule 10b-5, Twitter "can be liable for omissions of or misleading material facts. Waiving due diligence does not mean you have to accept a fraudulent disclosure (understated bots)".