How Net-savvy Gangsters Are Using Social Media as Their Personal Messaging Board And Keeping Punjab Police on Their Toes
3 years, 10 months ago

How Net-savvy Gangsters Are Using Social Media as Their Personal Messaging Board And Keeping Punjab Police on Their Toes

News 18  

Punjab gangsters turn to Facebook to keep their ‘messaging’ alive After cracking down on gangster-turned-activist Lakha Sidhana for his alleged role in the violence that broke out on January 26 during the farmers’ tractor rally, security agencies in Punjab are now confronted with a plethora of social media accounts allegedly being operated directly or indirectly by gangsters for ‘disseminating their message’ through social media. One Ludhiana gangster even issued a ‘statement’ on his page denying a particular extortion bid by his gang. Significantly, pages of these gangsters even carry messages on the ongoing farmer’s agitation, some even calling for an ‘armed struggle’ to assist the farmers. The use of these Facebook pages and social media accounts can come in handy,’’ said an Intelligence officer.

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Following gangsters' social media profiles to attract surveillance: Delhi Police
1 month, 1 week ago

Following gangsters' social media profiles to attract surveillance: Delhi Police

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Liking, sharing or following social media posts or profiles of gangsters and criminals can now land netizens in trouble as the Delhi Police have started keeping a stern vigil on such activities, officials said on Thursday. "We have directed all the police stations and posts in different districts of Delhi to keep a strict vigil on the social …

Gay, teenaged and online: LGBTQ+ Indians fight for safe space
11 months, 1 week ago

Gay, teenaged and online: LGBTQ+ Indians fight for safe space

The Hindu  

The suicide of a 16-year-old Indian boy who hit a wall of online abuse after posting selfies in saris and makeup has galavanised calls for social media giants to better protect LGBTQ+ Indians. "In India, the online abuse faced by LGBTQ+ creators, predominantly on Instagram, is pervasive and includes death threats, hate speech, rape threats, bullying and other forms of …

Police action sought for derogatory posts against Bandi Sanjay
1 year, 8 months ago

Police action sought for derogatory posts against Bandi Sanjay

Deccan Chronicle  

WARANGAL: Take immediate action against the persons who were trying to malign the image of BJP state chief and Karimnagar MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar by posting derogatory posts on social media, demanded the convenor of the Karimnagar Parliament segment, B. Praveen Rao, after lodging a complaint at the Two Town police station in Karimnagar on Sunday. It is to be …

Celebrity, bling and danger: PnB Rock’s killing heightens worries about social media vulnerability
2 years, 3 months ago

Celebrity, bling and danger: PnB Rock’s killing heightens worries about social media vulnerability

LA Times  

Rapper PnB Rock performs in 2019 at the 92.3 Real Street Festival at Honda Center in Anaheim. Chief Michel Moore said Tuesday that the Los Angeles Police Department is investigating whether the killing stemmed from an Instagram post by the rapper’s girlfriend that geotagged Roscoe’s, at Main Street and Manchester Avenue. It doesn’t make sense to me that the murderers …

Kulbir Kaur | Ingroup vs Outgroup & other online aberrations
2 years, 6 months ago

Kulbir Kaur | Ingroup vs Outgroup & other online aberrations

Deccan Chronicle  

Social media has recently emerged as “ Villain No. I still remember his remark made with a blank look on the face: “I lost my son to social media.” His son had been waging a lonely online battle to prove that being a Muslim does not place him in the category of being ‘anti-national’. The anti-establishment, pro-people, environmentalist Five Star …

'Address is Mukadma No. 302': Inspired by Crime Show, Delhi Teens Kill Man for Social Media 'Popularity'
2 years, 11 months ago

'Address is Mukadma No. 302': Inspired by Crime Show, Delhi Teens Kill Man for Social Media 'Popularity'

News 18  

In a heinous crime borrowed off the silver screen, a group of teenage boys in Northwest Delhi stabbed a 24-year-old man to death. Their fascination, however, took a dark turn on January 19, when three boys from the group allegedly killed a 24-year-old man inside a park, the report states. However, that is not all, as according to the police, …

OPINION: Ban IAS, IPS Officers’ Personal Social Media Accounts Grabbing Needless Attention
3 years, 4 months ago

OPINION: Ban IAS, IPS Officers’ Personal Social Media Accounts Grabbing Needless Attention

News 18  

Our Hon’ble PM, Shri Narendra Modi ji, while addressing the 2018 batch of IPS recruits, cautioned “Don’t fall into ‘Singham’ trap. During the media interaction at the same event, I conveyed the same point and opined that it is wrong of a handful of IAS and IPS officials to run so-called fan pages and social media platforms for the sole …

Union govt orders monitoring of social media accounts of J&K employees
3 years, 9 months ago

Union govt orders monitoring of social media accounts of J&K employees

Op India  

Earlier this month, Jammu and Kashmir’s General Administration Department issued a circular, asking all the administrative secretaries, divisional commissioners and heads of various departments to get security clearance of unverified government employees from the J&K Police’s criminal investigation department. The new guidelines by the government included scrutiny of social media accounts of employees. Besides seeking basic details such as name, …

UP Police to Take Legal Action Against FB Pages Admins Supporting Slain Gangster Vikas Dubey
4 years, 1 month ago

UP Police to Take Legal Action Against FB Pages Admins Supporting Slain Gangster Vikas Dubey

News 18  

Uttar Pradesh Police will take strict action against administrators of Facebook pages that support slain gangster Vikas Dubey. An action plan has been prepared to take legal action against these page admins and the process of blocking these pages would also be soon implemented. Gangster Vikas Dubey was killed in a police encounter in Uttar Pradesh after he and his …

Social media is an extension of our physical world and it is rife with propaganda
4 years, 3 months ago

Social media is an extension of our physical world and it is rife with propaganda

The Hindu  

The 2014 Maharashtra Assembly elections were just around the corner. His research underscored what he calls ‘seed accounts’— profiles that swamp the platform with specific content through their networks to manipulate information. When such accounts are followed by the Prime Minister, the issue becomes far more serious.” A 2018 study by BBC, titled ‘Duty, Identity, Credibility: Fake news and the …

Never posted communally charged content on social media: T'gana BJP MLA Raja Singh
4 years, 4 months ago

Never posted communally charged content on social media: T'gana BJP MLA Raja Singh

India Today  

Raja Singh, the lone BJP MLA from Telangana and apparently in the centre of a row over social media giant Facebook's policy on hate speeches, has rejected allegations he makes communally loaded posts online, asserting he only works in the national interest. In a report published last week, US newspaper Wall Street Journal had cited interviews with unnamed Facebook insiders …

Jammu and Kashmir Police struggles to combat fake news on coronavirus outbreak and internet restrictions; 178 people arrested in Valley
4 years, 8 months ago

Jammu and Kashmir Police struggles to combat fake news on coronavirus outbreak and internet restrictions; 178 people arrested in Valley

Firstpost  

The cyber crime division of the Kashmir Police has registered nine case regarding misuse of social media since the outbreak of coronavirus. This compromised the safetyy of the doctor, as he received many threats after the incident.” In another instance of misuse of social media, several fake accounts Jammu and Kashmir government spokesperson Rohit Kansal were created recently. We will …

Facebook, Twitter sucked into India-Pakistan information war
5 years, 9 months ago

Facebook, Twitter sucked into India-Pakistan information war

Live Mint  

Islamabad/New Delhi: Pakistani social media campaigner Hanzala Tayyab leads about 300 ultra-nationalist cyber warriors fighting an internet war with arch-foe India, in a battle that is increasingly sucking in global technology giants such as Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. Tayyab, 24, spends his days on Facebook and encrypted WhatsApp groups organising members of his Pakistan Cyber Force group to promote …

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