After reviewing US President Donald Trump's latest anti-media tweet featuring a doctored video clip showing him beating up a man with a CNN logo on his face, Twitter found the President's post was well within its rules. The tweet spread like wildfire across the internet, drawing flak from his critics and renewed expression of support …
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July 3, 2017Actor-politician Paresh Rawal says he has no regrets about his tweet on Arundhati Roy as the author has been badmouthing the Army, which well never hit back at her. The BJP MP had received a lot of flak on social media for saying the army should "tie" Roy to an army jeep instead of a …
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June 3, 2017In a faux pas, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu O. Panneerselvam on Saturday said alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party will be decided after local body polls are announced. Soon after realising his mistake, Panneerselvam again tweeted: "We mean that only after the announcement of local body elections, we will think about the alliance …
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May 20, 2017Actor Arjun Rampal, who shared a photoshopped image of Mahatma Gandhi and Dalai Lama by mistake on social media, believes in the strength of imagination. Arjun tweeted a black and white photo of Gandhi and "fake" Dalai Lama on Sunday, and captioned it: "Amazing moment captured, Mahatma Gandhi ji with his holiness Dalai Lama. Two …
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May 7, 2017An India-origin researcher has put together a system that would help analyse whether your tweet is credible or not, a report said. A team led by Georgia Tech Ph.D. candidate Tanushree Mitra scanned 66 million tweets linked to nearly 1,400 real-world events to build a language model that identified words and phrases that lead to …
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January 28, 2017Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was killing constitutional institutions one by one. “This PM (Prime Minister) is killing institutions one by one – RBI (Reserve Bank of India), CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation), universities and now judiciary. What India achieved in 65 years will be undone by …
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December 3, 2016Leaders of the present ruling entity, both in and beyond the government, have made a fine art of taking extreme, provocative, positions on issues concerning accepted norms of freedom and civilised governance, only to either retract their words or have someone more senior “clarify” the position. This is increasingly being perceived as “testing the waters”, …
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November 18, 2016