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As the country gears up for the world's biggest electoral exercise, messaging platforms like WhatsApp and social media influencers have emerged as the go to mediums for political parties to influence voter psychology, ad gurus and political analysts.

Google will require disclosure of the use of images and audio that have been altered or created using tools such as artificial intelligence (AI). Manipulating digital media to deceive or mislead people about politics, social issues, or matters of public concern is already banned by Google. Labels like "This image does not depict real events" or "Th...

Alphabet's YouTube said on Friday that the platform would stop removing content that might have spread false claims related to US presidential elections in 2020 and before. "In the current environment, we find that while removing this content does curb some misinformation, it could also have the unintended effect of curtailing political speech," Yo...

Twitter saw ad spending fall by 71 percent in December, according to data from advertising research firm Standard Media Index comes (SMI). The microblogging platform is working to reverse the exodus in advertisers, with initiatives such as free ads, lifting Twitter's ban on political advertising, and allowing companies greater control over the posi...

Twitter Inc on Tuesday said it would expand the types of political ads allowed on the social media platform, an apparent reversal of its 2019 global ban on political ads, as the Elon Musk-owned company seeks to grow revenue.

Facebook has approached academics and policy experts about forming a commission to advise it on issues relating to global elections, the New York Times reported, citing five people with knowledge of the matter.

Among the four states and one union territory that are going to polls from March 27, West Bengal emerged as the topper in spending for political advertisements on Facebook this year, according to data available with the social media platform.

Academics, journalists, and First Amendment lawyers are rallying behind New York University researchers in a showdown with Facebook over its demand that they halt the collection of data showing who is being micro-targeted by political ads on the world’s dominant social media platform.

A diverse team "representing a varied political spectrum" who have "political experience" is part of its policy-making process globally, Facebook said today in response to Congress allegations about pro-BJP bias of its India policy chief Ankhi Das. Enforcing policies on hate speech is "not made unilaterally by any one person", added the social medi...

Animosity within the Congress played a role in last week's violence in Bengaluru, Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai said on Tuesday, also blaming the Social Democratic Party India, the political unit of the Popular Front of India. Speaking to NDTV, Mr Bommai said the social media post - found offensive by many Muslims and believed to have tr...

Facebook is temporarily banning a Republican political action committee, the Committee to Defend the President, from advertising after it repeatedly shared content that was deemed false by external fact-checkers, the social media company said on Thursday.

Social media has become the target of a duelling attack ad campaign being waged online by the sitting president and his election rival. They're shooting the messenger while giving it lots of money.

Facebook says it will block ads from foreign state media during the US election, as well as allowing users to hide all paid-for political messages.

Twitter on Wednesday said it would ban all advertisements about political candidates, elections and hot-button policy issues such as abortion and immigration, a significant shift that comes in response to growing concerns that politicians are seizing on the vast reach of social media to deceive voters ahead of the 2020 election.

Twitter said Wednesday it would stop accepting political advertising globally on its platform, responding to growing concerns over misinformation from politicians on social media.

As the country gears up for the world's biggest electoral exercise, messaging platforms like WhatsApp and social media influencers have emerged as the go to mediums for political parties to influence voter psychology, ad gurus and political analysts.

Google will require disclosure of the use of images and audio that have been altered or created using tools such as artificial intelligence (AI). Manipulating digital media to deceive or mislead people about politics, social issues, or matters of public concern is already banned by Google. Labels like "This image does not depict real events" or "Th...

Alphabet's YouTube said on Friday that the platform would stop removing content that might have spread false claims related to US presidential elections in 2020 and before. "In the current environment, we find that while removing this content does curb some misinformation, it could also have the unintended effect of curtailing political speech," Yo...

Twitter saw ad spending fall by 71 percent in December, according to data from advertising research firm Standard Media Index comes (SMI). The microblogging platform is working to reverse the exodus in advertisers, with initiatives such as free ads, lifting Twitter's ban on political advertising, and allowing companies greater control over the posi...

Twitter Inc on Tuesday said it would expand the types of political ads allowed on the social media platform, an apparent reversal of its 2019 global ban on political ads, as the Elon Musk-owned company seeks to grow revenue.

Facebook has approached academics and policy experts about forming a commission to advise it on issues relating to global elections, the New York Times reported, citing five people with knowledge of the matter.

Among the four states and one union territory that are going to polls from March 27, West Bengal emerged as the topper in spending for political advertisements on Facebook this year, according to data available with the social media platform.

Academics, journalists, and First Amendment lawyers are rallying behind New York University researchers in a showdown with Facebook over its demand that they halt the collection of data showing who is being micro-targeted by political ads on the world’s dominant social media platform.

A diverse team "representing a varied political spectrum" who have "political experience" is part of its policy-making process globally, Facebook said today in response to Congress allegations about pro-BJP bias of its India policy chief Ankhi Das. Enforcing policies on hate speech is "not made unilaterally by any one person", added the social medi...

Animosity within the Congress played a role in last week's violence in Bengaluru, Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai said on Tuesday, also blaming the Social Democratic Party India, the political unit of the Popular Front of India. Speaking to NDTV, Mr Bommai said the social media post - found offensive by many Muslims and believed to have tr...

Facebook is temporarily banning a Republican political action committee, the Committee to Defend the President, from advertising after it repeatedly shared content that was deemed false by external fact-checkers, the social media company said on Thursday.

Social media has become the target of a duelling attack ad campaign being waged online by the sitting president and his election rival. They're shooting the messenger while giving it lots of money.

Facebook says it will block ads from foreign state media during the US election, as well as allowing users to hide all paid-for political messages.

Twitter on Wednesday said it would ban all advertisements about political candidates, elections and hot-button policy issues such as abortion and immigration, a significant shift that comes in response to growing concerns that politicians are seizing on the vast reach of social media to deceive voters ahead of the 2020 election.

Twitter said Wednesday it would stop accepting political advertising globally on its platform, responding to growing concerns over misinformation from politicians on social media.