Centre to summon Meta officials over alleged child sexual abuse ads on Instagram
The Centre will summon Meta officials over advertisements hosted on Instagram that allegedly promoted child sexual abuse, sources said on Friday.
The Centre will summon Meta officials over advertisements hosted on Instagram that allegedly promoted child sexual abuse, sources said on Friday.
WhatsApp has clarified that its upcoming usernames feature will be optional and will include safeguards against impersonation and unwanted messages after the Centre asked Meta to pause the rollout in India.
When Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014 for $19 billion, many observers struggled to understand the logic of paying such a staggering sum for a messaging service that generated little revenue.
The Attorney General for India, R. Venkataramani, has informed the Supreme Court that messaging platform WhatsApp has blocked around 9,400 accounts in 2026 that were being used for so-called “digital arrest” scams to extort money from victims.
A US lawsuit alleging message interception has triggered a sharp response from Musk and Durov, raising fresh questions over WhatsApp’s privacy claims and encryption system.
For over a decade since the era of chargeable Short Message Service (SMS), global platforms have monopolised our private conversations, expanding from text to multimedia messages and even video calls, all for free; Some say there is no free lunch.
Group calls on Arattai can hold up to 50 people, a far cry from WhatsApp's eight. This makes it an easy tool to use for families, communities, and work sessions.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday strongly criticized the Uttar Pradesh police over custodial deaths, questioning the BJP's double standards on human rights.
In a major digital push to recover crores in pending traffic fines, the Uttar Pradesh Transport Department has introduced a WhatsApp chatbot service (8005441222) for sending e-challan notices directly to vehicle owners.
The Haryana Government has suspended mobile internet services (2G/3G/4G/5G/CDMA/GPRS), bulk SMS (excluding banking and mobile recharge), and all dongle services provided on mobile networks, except voice calls, in the jurisdiction of Nuh district.
