BJP largest ad spender on Google, regional parties take second spot

The ruling party BJP spent as much as Rs 1.21 crore on 554 political ads since February 19.

Technology: Bharatiya Janata Party is the top promoter for political advertisements on Google, trailed by territorial gatherings in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, as India heads towards decisions in seven days, information from the innovation mammoth shows.

The decision party BJP spent as much as Rs 1.21 crore on 554 political advertisements since February 19.

Ideological groups and applicants have spent a sum of Rs 3.76 crore for 831 political advertisements on Google in the previous month and an a large portion of, the organization’s Political Ad Transparency Report appears.

Google India on Thursday discharged its political promotions straightforwardness report, which subtleties the spend on political advertisements since 19 February.

With the job of online life and innovation mammoths in affecting decisions turning into an idea the world over, Facebook, Google and Twitter have discharged advertisement straightforwardness reports for political promotions for India in the wake of doing as such for the US and EU prior.

After the BJP, provincial gatherings have been high spenders on Google. Andhra Pradesh and Telangana-based YSR Congress were the following high spenders with Rs 1.04 crore spent on 107 advertisements.

Pramanya Strategy Consulting Pvt Ltd set video and picture advertisements for Chandrababu Naidu, adding up to Rs 85 lakh for 53 promotions that were a blend of recordings and pictures.

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Facebook removed 687 pages, accounts linked to Congress, BJP ahead of polls

These include 138 Facebook pages and 549 profiles and have hundreds of thousands of followers

Technology:Under about fourteen days before India’s general decisions, Facebook said on Monday it has brought down more than 1,100 pages, gatherings, and records from the stage just as its unit Instagram in India, connected with India’s two biggest ideological groups and Pakistan, as a feature of its bigger endeavor to stem the spread of falsehood.

In a blogpost by Nathaniel Gleicher, its head of cybersecurity strategy, Facebook said it expelled 103 pages, gatherings, and records on both Facebook and Instagram for participating in composed ‘inauthentic conduct’ as a feature of a system that began in Pakistan.

Further, 687 Facebook pages and records connected to the primary Opposition party Indian National Congress (INC) and 15 Facebook pages, gatherings, and records connected to individuals related with an Indian data innovation firm Silver Touch, which has likewise built up the Prime Minister’s NaMo application, were expelled.

The examination was completed by Facebook’s in-house agents, just as research organization Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), Gleicher told columnists in an approach Monday.

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All-women polling booths in every LS constituency of Maharashtra

As per the Election Commission’s (EC) directions to set up polling stations entirely managed by women, such booths will be set up in all 40 Lok Sabha seats of the state

ELECTIONS: An all-ladies surveying stall will be set up in each Lok Sabha supporters of Maharashtra amid the following month’s surveys in an offered to urge increasingly female voters to practice their establishment.

According to the Election Commission’s (EC) bearings to set up surveying stations totally overseen by ladies, such corners will be set up in each of the 40 Lok Sabha seats of the express, a discharge issued by the race office here said.

“Each one of those sent at such surveying stations – police, decision officers and different workers – will be ladies. These corners, an activity towards sex uniformity and including ladies’ interest in the discretionary procedure, will be called as ‘Sakhi Matdan Kendras’,” it said.

According to the EC’s rules, there would be no particular shading code for such surveying stations, the discharge stated, including that their security will be a top need.

Delicate surveying stations will be kept out of this trial while those close tehsil office or police headquarters will be viewed as overseen by ladies, it said.

Rangoli and other fine arts would be utilized to make these stalls increasingly appealing and to lay accentuation on tidiness, it included.

The quantity of ladies voters this time hasincreased to 911 for every 1,000 men, as against 889 for every 1,000 men in 2014, according to official figures.

Out of the all out 8,73,29,910 voters in the state, 4,57,01,877 are men, 4,16,25,950 ladies and 2,083 third sex voters.

Lok Sabha decisions will be held in Maharashtra in four stages on April 11, 18, 23 and 29 and outcomes will be announced on May 23.

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Over 30,000 political ads on Facebook since February

Over Rs 6 crore spent on these ads; Twitter data shows no promoted tweet in past seven days from key handles

Technology: A sum of 30,457 commercials identified with legislative issues or issues of national significance have hit the world’s biggest Social media network in front of the general decision. The use on these commercials was Rs 6.54 crore, demonstrates the information from Facebook‘s Ad Library Report.

“This report is a week after week outline of the library and incorporates information for promotions that have been seen by individuals in India. Making this report accessible to the open is a piece of Facebook’s endeavors to expand straightforwardness in promoting,” as indicated by a note on the web based life goliath’s site.

The decision Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) appears to overwhelm the space. A page called ‘My First Vote For Modi’ represents the biggest number of promotions by number (2,765). Another called ‘Bharat Ke Mann Ki Baat’ was second (2,429). ‘Namo Supporters’ was third with 2153 promotions.

The ‘Bharat Ke Mann Ki Baat’ page was the most astounding high-roller on commercials. It represented about one out of each six rupees spent so far on Facebook’s political advertisement‘s, as indicated by the information. It was likewise the greatest high-roller for the most recent week. ‘Bharat Ke Mann Ki Baat’ spent over Rs 20 lakh between March 10 and March 16, the most recent week for which the information is accessible.

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WhatsApp, NASSCOM Foundation partner to fight fake news before elections

WhatsApp and NASSCOM Foundation has partnered to deliver digital literacy training to curb fake news, propaganda and misinformation menace before Lok Sabha Elections 2019

Technology: WhatsApp, a Facebook-possessed texting stage, has joined forces with the social arm of National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) to convey computerized proficiency preparing. Expecting to control counterfeit news, purposeful publicity and deception threat on its stage, the preparation is assessed to contact roughly 1,00,000 individuals before the Lok Sabha Elections 2019.

“We are eager to grow our associations with common society to progress significant advanced education abilities that can help battle deception share on WhatsApp. This preparation instructs individuals all through India to be aware of the messages they get and to confirm the actualities before sending,” said Abhijit Bose, Head of India, WhatsApp.

The main group of preparing is booked to begin from March 27 in Delhi, trailed by workshops for agents from provincial and urban areas, and roadshows and connections in different universities. NASSCOM Foundation, on its part, will give volunteers to be prepared, who might later impart their figuring out how to no less than three additional individuals, satisfying the NASSCOM Foundation order of ‘Every One Teach Three’ battle. These volunteers will likewise post their takeaways from workshops on their web based life handles to expand the range of their learnings.

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Facebook’s trouble worsens with New Zealand mosque massacre live streaming

The shares had their worst day in more than two months Friday, falling 2.5 per cent to close at $165.98

Technology: Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has had an awful week, even with regards to a terrible year.

The seven day stretch of awful news really begun March 8 with a proposition from U.S. congressperson and presidential applicant Elizabeth Warren to separate the organization. At that point there was the longest-ever blackout of Facebook’s interpersonal organization and administrations, which nearly dominated news of a criminal examination concerning its information concurrences with different companies. Facebook’s specialized glitch was settled in the nick of time for it to post the flight of two key officials, including the one firmly connected with the organization’s most famous item. Be that as it may, a definitive blow went ahead Friday with the slaughter of 50 individuals in New Zealand, live spilled on Facebook.

“Multifaceted investments who were beforehand self-satisfied about the ongoing negative features are raising eyebrows on the news medium-term,” Lynx Equity Strategies expert Jahanara Nissar wrote in a note. The flight of two best administrators likewise was “worrisome – particularly given that the contention was over methodology.”

The snowball of awful news is making up for lost time with the organization. The offers had their most exceedingly terrible day in over two months Friday, falling 2.5 percent to close at $165.98.

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Google ups efforts to check misinformation ahead of Lok Sabha elections

Google is also going to launch its political ad transparency report before Indian elections, scheduled to begin on April 11

Google signage is seen at Google headquarters in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., December 17, 2018. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon

Technology: Not simply Facebook and Twitter, Google is additionally attempting to guarantee the legitimacy of data on its commercials and video stage as India heads towards General Elections in under a month.

On Thursday, the organization said it is guaranteeing legitimate news content shows signs of improvement play on YouTube, where recordings have seen development in watch time triple for substance from definitive sources over the most recent two years, said Tim Katz, the video stage’s executive of news associations.

YouTube, which is possessed by Google, is guaranteeing there is news from dependable sources that is put on the stage, with enough setting.

With races not exactly a month away, the Indian government has been attempting to address the issue of fake news spreading through online life and informing stages, for example, WhatsApp. As of late, the Parliamentary Committee on data innovation met with senior officials of Facebook and Twitter and the Election Commission has likewise said internet based life stages have resolved to help check the spread of phony news in the keep running up to races.

The video stage has acquainted certainty checks with its boards in India, just beneath the query items, which depends on and “open environment of distributers and actuality checking experts”.It is as of now accessible in Engligh and will in the blink of an eye be accessible in Hindi.

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India, US to establish six US nuclear power plants in India: MEA

The agreement was reached during the ninth round of the India-US Strategic Security Dialogue

Current Affairs:India and the United States on Wednesday reaffirmed their responsibility to cooperate to keep the multiplication of weapons of mass obliteration and their conveyance frameworks and to deny access to such weapons by psychological militants and non-state on-screen characters.

The assention was come to amid the ninth round of the India-US Strategic Security Dialog held here. The Indian assignment was driven by Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale, while the US appointment was driven by Andrea Thompson, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.

“The opposite sides traded sees on a wide scope of worldwide security and non-expansion challenges and reaffirmed their pledge to cooperate to keep the multiplication of weapons of mass decimation and their conveyance frameworks and to deny access to such weapons by psychological oppressors and non-state on-screen characters,” as per an announcement by the External Affairs Ministry.

The US additionally reaffirmed its solid help of India’s initial participation in the Nuclear Suppliers Group.

“They resolved to fortify reciprocal security and common atomic collaboration, including the foundation of six US atomic power plants in India,” the MEA said.

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North Koreans to vote in ‘rubber stamp’ election that has only one winner

In keeping with one of Pyongyang’s most enduring slogans — ‘Single-minded unity’ — there is only one approved name on each of the ballot papers

International: North Koreans go to the surveys Sunday for a race in which there can be just a single champ.

Pioneer Kim Jong Un’s managing Workers’ Party has an iron hold on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, as the disengaged, atomic furnished nation is formally known.

However, like clockwork it holds a race for the elastic stamp governing body, known as the Supreme People’s Assembly.

What’s more, with regards to a standout amongst Pyongyang’s most suffering trademarks – “Resolute solidarity” – there is just a single affirmed name on every one of the vote papers

Voters have the chance to cross it out before throwing their vote, however practically speaking that is obscure.

Turnout last time was 99.97 percent, as indicated by the authority KCNA news office – just the individuals who were abroad or “working in seas” did not participate. Furthermore, the vote was 100 percent for the named applicants.

“We respect every one of the general population in our nation as one family so we will join with one personality and we will vote in favor of the concurred hopeful,” Socialist Women’s Union authority Song Yang Ran, 57, told AFP in front of the current year’s survey.

Normal North Koreans in every case express complete help for the specialists when addressing remote media.

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