Unlike conventional advertising, digital advertising increases impact by individualising ads while also reducing businesses’ advertising costs. Nobel Laureates Acemoglu and Johnson are not the first to suggest a tax on revenues from digital ads.
By 2016-17, Facebook had designed a business model that aimed at maximising the ‘user engagement’, that is how much time users spent on their platform, and started collecting data on what they liked and shared.
Social media giant Meta received 33,422 reports through the Indian grievance mechanism for Facebook in the month of September, and responded to all of these reports.
I have never learned to compromise with injustice, and I never will, senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury wrote on Facebook last night.
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), under the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), will be the technology partner and support with computing infrastructure.
The quartet also said that if Zuckerberg is not forced to sell his majority of shares in Facebook, it will integrate them into a giant social network.
Facebook owns four out of the top five most downloaded apps worldwide, including WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and Messenger.
Social media is not alone - TV news media in India has been reduced to slander, outrage and a circus of shouting matches.
The database was made available for download last week on an online hacker forum that apparently belonged to a crime group.
Delhi Police has written to social media platforms to remove objectionable content from nearly 60 accounts, an officer said on Thursday, asserting that the force is working to quell rumours on the contentious CAA.
