Indian news channels on YouTube are battling arbitrary blocking, curbs on earnings

[ad_1] At 1 am on April 4, Haseen Rehmani, the founder of Bolta Hindustan, a Hindi news YouTube channel received an email from YouTube, stating that their channel had been blocked due to a notice received from the Ministry of...

Pakistan says it blocked social media platform X over ‘national security’

[ad_1] The platform remained inaccessible to users, but government officials refused to acknowledge any restrictions, until now.Pakistan blocked access to social media platform X around the time of elections in February, the interior ministry said, citing national security concerns. Users...

‘Bolta Hindustan’ YouTube channel removed on Centre’s orders

[ad_1] The YouTube channel of Bolta Hindustan – a digital news portal with about 2,98,000 subscribers – was removed from the Google-owned platform on Thursday at the behest of the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.Bolta Hindustan’s editor Samar Raj...

Meta’s oversight board urges Facebook, Instagram to lift ban on ‘shaheed’

[ad_1] The oversight board of Meta, the social media giant which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has ruled that a ban on the use of the word “shaheed” – “martyr” in Arabic – should be lifted. Meta has acknowledged that...

Correction

[ad_1] Corrections and clarifications: This article has been withdrawn because the circular by the Jammu and Kashmir administration on which it was based is not new. The circular was from March 24, 2023.The error is regretted....Read more [ad_2] Crime Today...

A decade under Modi: Terror laws against journalists, creeping digital censorship

[ad_1] The Bharatiya Janata Party manifestos from 2014 and 2019 did not make any promises about freedom of the press.How the media fared under the Narendra Modi government can be gleaned from three metrics: the media’s access to the government;...