By Jaishree Kumar When Yash Sharma, 25, and his mother attended the annual pride parade in Delhi in 2022, the photos went viral. Sharma was used to facing hate online, but this time, the trolls targeted his mother too. “It’s odd and worrying, people like my mother have accepted their queer children, why should they face such harassment?” he said. A queer-rights activist and founder of Official Humans of Queer, Sharma runs a page on Instagram dedicated to documenting queer stories from across the spectrum. Sharma would notice a pattern of trolling on his page, they were most prominent when a tr...
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By Hera Rizwan A young college student was stunned to find her personal information and photos publicly shared on social media platform X by an impersonator. The shared details included her hometown, college name, intimate photos with friends, and a link to her Instagram account. The student, who had disclosed her tuition fees for online classes, saw this information misrepresented as "rates for her services" on the platform. All her publicly available information was compiled into a thread and circulated online. Distraught by the filthy messages she was receiving as a result of the violative ...
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By Vipul Kumar In July 2023, Himachal Pradesh and parts of Uttarakhand were reeling under severe floods. Tanushree Pandey - a journalist from Delhi, was in the field to report from these two ecologically-sensitive North Indian states that are increasingly in the crosshairs of climate change. Tanushree was stranded on the outskirts of Delhi held up by an unregulated Kanwar Yatra on the highway. The Kanwar Yatra is an annual pilgrimage where, mostly young Hindu men who are devotees of the Hindu god Shiva, carry water from the river Ganges and other shrines. A few hours after being stuck, Tanushr...
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By Hera Rizwan Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, on Monday, agreed to admit before the Supreme Court that he made a mistake in retweeting an allegedly defamatory video in May 2018, originally posted by YouTuber Dhruv Rathee. The justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta, part of the bench, abstained from issuing a notice on Kejriwal's plea challenging a Delhi High Court decision that upheld the summons against him in this criminal defamation case. They intent to thoroughly examine the case before making any decision. The hearing for this case is expected to take place on March 11. Also Rea...
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By Archis Chowdhury The leading digital threat to elections this year is not artificial intelligence, but social media, says a recent report by the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights. The report, titled 'Digital Risks to the 2024 Elections', highlights the failures by social media companies in checking the spread of conspiracy theories and political disinformation, which led to the US Capitol riots on January 6, 2021, and Brazil's poll violence on January 8, 2022. Instead, the report states, social media companies have retreated in their efforts to ensure the safeguards are in plac...
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By Hera Rizwan The social media platform X, owned by Elon Musk, has restricted searches for Taylor Swift following the emergence of explicit images of the singer generated using artificial intelligence on the platform. As verified by BOOM, searches for "Taylor Swift" and "Taylor Swift AI" on X result in a message saying, "Oops, something went wrong". Nevertheless, searches such as "Taylor Swift Photos" and "Taylor Swift singer" still yield results. Swift has yet to address the incident publicly. According to The Verge, within a span of 17 hours, one of the most widely circulated posts featurin...
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By Archis Chowdhury As the war between Israel and Hamas intensifies, microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter) has been inundated with an unprecedented amount of unverified images and videos being linked to the conflict - many of which have been fact-checked by BOOM for being false or misleading. In April, Decode had reported on how accounts known for spreading disinformation and hate content were now armed with a Blue Tick, following Elon Musk's takeover of the platform, and had their posts prioritized by the changes made to the platform's algorithm at Musk's behest. Following a thorough sc...
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By Hera Rizwan The alterations made to X (formally known as Twitter) since its acquisition by Elon Musk in 2022 have significantly contributed to rendering the social media platform less secure against disinformation, misinformation and fake news. After assuming the role of CEO, Muskdismantled the platform's trust and safety teams, lifted bans on extremist and hazardous accounts, and, most significantly, removed Twitter's critical anti-disinformation feature, the identification of verified users and authenticated accounts with a blue check mark. Currently, X has come under scrutiny for its han...
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By Hera Rizwan The X (formerly Twitter) account of Dr Cyriac Philips, who is popularly known as TheLiverDr, was suspended in India on Thursday. This is in response to a "legal demand", as mentioned on the suspended account. Philips, a Senior Consultant at The Liver Institute at Kerala's Rajagiri Hospital, is often known for countering health misinformation and questioning the viability of alternative medicines like ayurveda, unani and homeopathy, on X and Instagram. Philips, who was intimated by the social media platform about the account suspension via mail, told BOOM that this has been done ...
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By Hera Rizwan In the aftermath of Elon Musk's recent interview, social media has been abuzz with speculations that X, previously known as Twitter, might turn into an entirely subscription-based platform. Musk had floated this idea of charging all users of X during a wide-ranging conversation focused on AI that featured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Monday. The interview was live-streamed on X, where the speakers talked at length about harnessing the opportunities and mitigating the risks of AI for the good of civilization. Also Read:A Roundup Of Twitter Overhaul: Daily Tweet C...
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