The regulator found that an episode of Republic’s ‘Poochta Hai Bharat’ contained hate speech and offensive content that violated broadcast codes. The UK’s broadcasting and communications regulator OfCom imposed a £ 20,000 (Rs 19.8 lakh) fine on Worldview Media Network Limited, which operates Republic TV’s Hindi channel Republic Bharat in …
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The fine was imposed by the channel’s daily news show ‘Poochta Hai Bharat’ presented by Arnab Goswami and broadcast on television on September 6, 2019. Republic Bharat, the Hindi news channel arm of Republic TV, was fined £ 20,000 (roughly Rs 19 lakh) on Tuesday from the UK communications regulator’s …
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Facebook allowed a video of Bajrang Dal claiming responsibility for an attack on a church. (Archive) New Delhi: Despite being labeled by Facebook’s security team as a potentially dangerous organization that supports violence against minorities across India, Bajrang Dal has been allowed to thrive on the social network for political …
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New Delhi: With Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan enacting the Kerala Police Law Amendment Ordinance, the Left Front-ruled state police will now have the right to prosecute and imprison people “for doing, expressing, publishing or disseminate any matter that is threatening, abusive, humiliating or defamatory ”through“ any mode of communication …
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Facebook India’s top policy official, Ankhi Das, resigned from the Mark Zuckerberg-led company, months after being accused of bias towards the ruling faction. And now, Facebook has chosen WhatsApp’s director of public policy, Shivnath Thukral, to take over from Das. The change comes after weeks of controversy regarding Facebook’s alleged …
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NEW DELHI: Ankhi das, he Facebook senior executive which was recently embroiled in a fierce controversy over allegations of political prejudice at the leadership of Facebook and WhatsApp in India, left the American social media giant. Das, who had joined Facebook in 2011 when it began to gain on a …
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Mumbai Cyber Police arrested a Delhi-based lawyer for posting videos in which he proposed the theory that celebrity manager Disha Salian (28) was the victim of ganglia and murders by some celebrities and a Maharashtrian politician. Salian was the celebrity manager of the late actor Sushant Singh Rajput. The arrest …
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NEW DELHI: Days after Chief Justice, SA Bobde, denounced the misuse of freedom of expression, Attorney General KK Venugopal told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that there was an urgent need to strike a balance between freedom expression and contempt of court while the media searched “forbidden territory.” Addressing the …
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a panel of the Delhi legislative assembly not to take enforcement action against Facebook Vice President and MD of India Ajit mohan until October 15 in connection with a subpoena asking you to stand before him regarding the Northeast Delhi riots. The …
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Facebook India Vice President and Managing Director Ajit Mohan moves the Supreme Court against the convening of the Delhi Assembly Committee, which is investigating the social media giant’s alleged failure to crack down on hate speech, saying that the subject falls within the exclusive domain of the Union. from India. …
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