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Social media can support or undermine democracy – it comes down to how it’s designed

Every design choice that social media platforms make nudges users toward certain actions, values and emotional states.It is a design choice to offer a news feed that combines verified...

Ethics Code for Social Media, rules for OTT platforms, online news

Provision for identification of first originator of information on messaging services

Unnao reports: Twitter handles of Barkha Dutt’s portal, 7 others booked 

Others accused are, Janjagran Live, Aazad Samaj Party spokesperson Suraj Kumar Boudh, Nilim Dutta, Vijay Ambedkar, Abhay Kumar Azad, Rahul Diwakar, Nawab Satpal Tanwar

Allahabad HC has not ordered evictions of Surma villagers of Dudhwa Forest

TOI mis-reports a court order that said, if the dwellers are indulging in illegal acts, appropriate authority must take action; headline misleads readers

Media cannot report in a sensationalised manner: Delhi HC on Disha Ravi’s plea

The Single-judge Bench has directed editors to exercise control while disseminating information and Disha Ravi to not ‘malign’ the police

Delhi HC issues notice to NBSA, channels on Disha’s plea alleging information leak

In her plea, Disha alleged that the Delhi Police leaked information to the media related to the toolkit FIR against her

SC registry: Suo moto contempt against Rajdeep Sardesai erroneously listed

The case was shown to be registered based on a petition filed in September 2020 by Haryana resident Aastha Khurana through Advocate Omprakash Parihar 

113 hours raiding multiple locations, it is still not clear why the ED is investigations Newsclick

Will continue to do what a news organisation should do… cover people’s issues… take positions: Prabir Purkayastha

ED Raids & NewsClick: Weaponising law by Criminalising Free Speech

Image: Telegraph  The People’s Union for Civil Liberties(PUCL) has issued...

Sections of media add communal fuel to Rinku Sharma murder

Some have started spreading ‘information’ that Sharma was killed because he was a Hindu, a BJP and VHP  volunteer

From Watchdog to Lapdog, Weaponisation of the India Media

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