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Lok Sabha polls: Political ad spend on Facebook, Google crosses Rs 20 crore

The most popular keywords on Facebook during the week were ‘BJP’, ‘Congress’, ‘Modi’, ‘Narendra Modi’ and ‘Congress party Punjab’

Elections:Political promotion spend on Facebook, the world’s biggest online networking stage, crossed the Rs 20-crore mark in the week prompting April 27, only in front of the surveying on April 29 in the fourth period of the continuous general race.

A comparable pattern was seen on Google, where ideological groups in total spent Rs 22.39 crore as of May 2.

An examination of the Facebook information demonstrates that there was a 16.1 percent ascend over the earlier week in the promotion spend by ideological groups. As much as Rs 2.8 crore was spent on ads amid the week finishing April 27.

The web based life goliath gives week by week information on promoting on issues of a political sort and on issues of national significance. Information for India is accessible from February.

Four of the five most noteworthy spends from that point forward are from the pages which bolster the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the race. These incorporate pages named Bharatiya Janata Party, Bharat Ke Mann Ki Baat and My First Vote For Modi. BJP pages, up until now, have represented Rs 5.96 crore of the all out promotion spend; Congress pages have spent Rs 74 lakh.

The most mainstream watchwords on Facebook amid the week were ‘BJP’, ‘Congress’, ‘Modi’, ‘Narendra Modi’ and ‘Congress party Punjab’.

As indicated by Google, which makes comparable exposures, the greatest high-roller here, as well, has been the BJP. It represented the greater part the all out spend — Rs 11.6 crore.

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WhatsApp unveils ‘tipline’ service to curb misinformation ahead of LS polls

The latest move follows a number of campaigns by WhatsApp to educate users on fake news

Elections:An aggregate of 11 ladies hopefuls are in the quarrel for the May 12 Lok Sabha surveys in Haryana, which in the 53 years of its reality has chosen just five ladies parliamentarians.

In the 2014 general races, not by any means a solitary lady hopeful could figure out how to win in the state known for its skewed sex proportion, while six out ten parliamentary voting demographics here have never chosen a lady MP.

Albeit, no ladies competitors challenging freely in the state have ever constructed it to the lower place of parliament, this time, seven of the 11 female applicants are independents.

Chandravati, a previous Janta Party pioneer turned into the first historically speaking lady MP from the state in 1977 when she vanquished political stalwart Chaudhary Bansi Lal from Bhiwani voting demographic.

She later joined the Congress and furthermore filled in as the Governor of Puducherry in 1990.

Of the 151 MPs chose from the state up until now (counting when it was a piece of Punjab), ladies were chosen just multiple times.

Congress’ Kumari Selja, a Rajya Sabha MP, is the main ladies to have been chosen to Lok Sabha thrice, twice from Ambala and once from Sirsa.

Selja who is challenging the races this time from Ambala, told PTI, “The state has advanced a great deal with regards to ladies however a ton should be finished. We need an ever increasing number of ladies pioneers to address the issues.”

Shruti Chaudhary, terrific girl of previous Chief Minister, Chaudhary Bansi Lal, who was chosen as a MP in 2009 general decisions from Bhiwani-Mahendargarh voting demographic, is additionally in the quarrel this time.

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Movie on Modi gives him cult status, will tilt electoral balance: EC to SC

The report was submitted after the SC on April 15 directed the EC to re-examine its earlier order and take an informed decision on banning pan-India the biopic’s release after watching the full movie

Elections:The biopic on Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a “hagiography”, which treats the subject with undue veneration, and its open screening amid survey battle will “tilt the appointive parity”, the Election Commission (EC) has told the Supreme Court while restricting the arrival of the motion picture featuring Vivek Oberoi before the surveys end on May 19.

In its 20-page report submitted to the peak court seat headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi on the film titled ‘PM Narendra Modi’, the survey board said that the biopic “produces a political domain where an individual procured religion status” and its open screening amid the period when model implicit rules is in task would support a specific ideological group.

The EC said “there are a few scenes delineating a noteworthy resistance as degenerate and appearing in poor light. Their pioneers have been delineated in such a way, that their distinguishing proof is clear and evident to the watchers.” It said that the biopic was in excess of a life story and was a “hagiography” (which regards the subject as holy people and gives undue adoration) and the build of the motion picture was “shamelessly uni-dimensional”, which puts a person on a higher platform through utilization of explicit images, mottos and scenes.

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Lok Sabha polls phase III: Here’s what set trends on social media platforms

Tracking the Hashtags

Elections:The war of words via web-based networking media proceeded with well into the third period of the LS decisions. In their examination of web based life content amid decisions, a group driven by Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, partner educator, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi and Hyderabad, considered a few patterns for the third stage, the lasgest in the Lok Sabha races. Here are a few numbers from the third stage, hung on Tuesday. The tweets were broke down between 7 am and 7 pm.

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FB has assembled a small army of fact-checkers for Indian polls. Too small

The world’s largest democracy represents a key proving ground for Silicon Valley’s battered disinformation amplifier

Elections:One of the activities most fundamental to Facebook Inc. right now is a world far from its Menlo Park, Calif. central command, and in more ways than one. Rather than the rambling rooftop gardens and upscale bistros stuffed with Silicon Valley’s most recent wellbeing trends, this confined Mumbai office has worn covers and blurring dividers fixed with uncovered electrical conduits. This is Boom Live, one of seven modest truth checking firms at the core of Facebook’s endeavors to remake a portion of its validity amid India’s races.

The world’s biggest vote based system speaks to a key demonstrating ground for Silicon Valley’s battered disinformation intensifier. In light of the early counts, in excess of 60 percent of India’s 900 million qualified voters are relied upon to cast tickets among now and May 19, as the middle left Congress Party attempts to catch control from the conservative Bharatiya Janata Party. As in different races the world over, paid hacks and gathering devotees are producing purposeful publicity on Facebook and the organization’s WhatsApp detachment, alongside Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and different universal correspondence channels. Together with Facebook’s computerized channels, Boom’s 11 reality checkers and its comparative size individual temporary workers are the cutting edge of the informal community’s shield against this ooze.

“In a nation to a great extent driven by neighborhood and network news, we realized it was basic to have actuality checking accomplices who could survey content crosswise over locales and dialects,” Ajit Mohan, Facebook’s overseeing executive and VP in India, wrote in an ongoing organization blog entry. He said the gathered truth checkers spread 8 of India’s 23 official dialects and he’s hoping to include more.

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Facebook and Twitter are getting sucked into India-Pak information battle

With a combined population of 1.5 billion, India and Pakistan are hot growth markets for Facebook and Twitter

Technology: Pakistani web based life campaigner Hanzala Tayyab leads around 300 ultra-patriot digital warriors battling a web war with curve adversary India, in a fight that is progressively sucking in worldwide tech monsters, for example, Twitter and Facebook.

Tayyab, 24, goes through his days on Facebook and encoded WhatsApp chatrooms sorting out individuals from his Pakistan Cyber Force gathering to advance enemies of India substance and influence it to turn into a web sensation, including on Twitter where he has in excess of 50,000 supporters.

That ranges from featuring claimed Indian human rights maltreatment to lionizing agitators doing combating Indian security powers in Kashmir, a debated Himalayan locale at the core of memorable strains among Pakistan and India.

Tayyab’s activity ended up more earnestly on Monday when the Pakistan Cyber Force’s Facebook account was brought down, one of 103 Pakistani records the web based life goliath said it had erased in view of “inauthentic conduct” and spamming. Some Indian patriot accounts have likewise been suspended as of late.

Depicting himself as an online warrior safeguarding Pakistan from India’s endeavors to destabilize his nation, Tayyab plans to keep assuming his job in the more extensive data war being battled between the atomic furnished adversaries.

“We are countering the Indian account through web based life, we are countering the adversaries of Pakistan,” Tayyab told Reuters in the capital Islamabad.

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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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Facebook to block housing, job and bank ads that are age, gender specific

The changes to Facebook’s advertising methods which generate most of the company’s enormous profits are unprecedented

Technology: Facebook will update its advertisement focusing on frameworks to counteract segregation in lodging , acknowledge and business promotions as a feature of a legitimate settlement.

For the informal community, that is one noteworthy lawful issue down, a few to go, incorporating government examinations in the U.S. furthermore, Europe over its information and protection rehearses.

The progressions to Facebook’s advertising techniques which produce the greater part of the organization’s huge benefits are extraordinary. The informal organization says it will never again permit lodging, work or credit advertisements that objective individuals by age, sexual orientation or postal district. Facebook will likewise constrain other focusing on alternatives so these promotions don’t bar individuals based on race, ethnicity and other legitimately secured classes in the U.S., including national inception and sexual introduction.

The Social Media Company is additionally paying about $5 million to cover offended parties’ lawful expenses and different expenses.

Facebook and the offended parties a gathering including the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Fair Housing Alliance and others called the settlement “memorable.”

It took year and a half to pound out. The organization still faces a managerial protest documented by US Department of Housing and Urban Development in August over the lodging advertisements issue.

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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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