Shyam Meera Singh said that ‘there is the freedom to murder and lynch but there is no freedom to criticise Modi or the current government; if there was freedom, why would he face termination? (Republished with permission from GauriLankeshNews). In an autocratic move, Aaj Tak, a Hindi-language news […]
Dev Desai, well known social activist from Gujarat, was in for a shock this afternoon when WhatsApp sent him a message that he was blocked from using their service! Totally clueless as to why the popular messaging service took this extreme step, Desai took to Twitter to let […]
A newly elected Opposition in Parliament says media freedom is shrinking. What has changed? The five-year period of 2014-2019 has seen an explosion of media creation and media use in India. The Indian public sphere is increasingly mediated not just by conventional media—TV, print, online, and radio in […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed bail to Priyanka Sharma, the BJP youth wing worker who had circulated a morphed photograph of Priyanka Chopra with Mamata Banerjee’s head on it, but asked her to apologise in writing after her release. The vacation bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and […]
Janta kaReporter has been following up on a shocking story: 20 lakh missing EVMs. Based on RTI replies obtained by a Mumbai-based activist, Manoranjan Roy, the website said that the Bengaluru-based BEL and Hyderabad-based ECIL had admitted supplying nearly 40 lakh EVMs to the Election Commission, the national […]
Facebook removed Pages, Groups and accounts for violating Facebook’s policies on coordinated inauthentic behavior or spam. In its blog, it has detailed four separate takedowns. Here’s what the post by Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Cybersecurity Policy, said: We removed 103 Pages, Groups and accounts on both Facebook and […]
“I uploaded a video of a song which was anti Modi and anti-BJP and within half an hour, I got a message that it was taken down. So fast, I just put it up and they took it down,” says Rajesh Shah, an advertising professional. Shah got a […]
Lawyers representing journalist Kishorechandra Wangkhem who is detained under the National Security Act (NSA), speak to Laxmi Murthy about why slapping a preventive detention law is overkill. Imphal-based journalist Kishorechandra Wangkhem, who was taken into custody by the Manipur police on November 26, 2018, was ordered to be […]
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