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A 2019 book titled The Real Face of Facebook in India, co-authored by the journalists Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and Cyril Sam, alleged that Facebook helped enable and benefited from the rise of Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India. [385] Ankhi Das, Facebook's policy director for India and South and Central Asia ...
After live videos having skyrocketed on Facebook in the last months, the social network launches Facebook Creator, an app for mobile video posts offering influencers Live Creative Kit for adding intros and outros to broadcasts, a unified inbox of Facebook and Instagram comments plus Messenger chats, cross-posting to Twitter and expansive analytics.
Live India is an Indian Hindi-language news and media website focusing on national news and viral content. Its headquarters is in Noida, India.The foundation of the news platform was laid by Union Cabinet Minister Ram Vilas Paswan and Union Cabinet Minister Najma Heptulla on 17 February 2015 at Constitution Club, New Delhi. [1]
Facebook Live was used by the perpetrators of an incident in which four black young adults kidnapped and tortured a mentally disabled white male. [121] All four were charged and convicted of hate crimes. [122] Facebook Live was also used by Brenton Tarrant, perpetrator of the Christchurch mosque shootings to broadcast the attack on Al Noor Mosque.
India Today admitted to being fined for viewership malpractice. [12] Bombay High Court directed TV Today Network to pay the fine imposed by BARC. [13] [14] In March 2018, Aaj Tak misreported that the Delhi High Court had disqualified 20 MLAs of the Aam Aadmi Party. India Today was among several news channels that also reported the said claim. [15]
Facebook and Meta Platforms have been criticized for their management of various content on posts, photos and entire groups and profiles. This includes but is not limited to allowing violent content, including content related to war crimes, and not limiting the spread of fake news and COVID-19 misinformation on their platform, as well as allowing incitement of violence against multiple groups.
[99] [100] Media houses also have their own fact-checking departments now such as the India Today Group, Times Internet has TOI Factcheck and The Quint has WebQoof. [101] [102] India Today Group, Vishvas.news, Factly, Newsmobile, and Fact Crescendo (all International Fact-Checking Network certified) are Facebook partners in fact-checking. [99]
The Government of India owns news media such as DD News and All India Radio. [1] While the news media market (readership and viewership) in India is highly concentrated, the total number of owners includes over 25,000 individuals, 2000 joint stock companies and 1200 societies. [1]