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Sandhya Devanathan will take over as Head and Vice President of Meta India

Sandhya Devanathan, who currently leads Meta’s gaming vertical in the APAC region, will join as vice president of the company’s India business on January 1, 2023. Following the departure of Ajit Mohan, Facebook-parent Meta has appointed Sandhya Devanathan as the new Head and Vice President of its India business. Devanathan will assume the position on January 1, 2023, and will report to Dan Neary, Meta’s Vice President for the APAC region. Devanathan joined the company in 2016 and helped build its Singapore and Vietnam operations while also working on the…

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Twitter Blue Relaunch Date Confirmed By Elon Musk

Twitter has made a slew of changes to its Blue subscription which will now be available in more countries as well. CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday said that the microblogging platform will relaunch its $8 Blue subscription service with verification from November 29 Elon Musk, CEO of Twitter, announced on Wednesday that the microblogging platform will relaunch its $8 Blue subscription service with verification on November 29 – this time with more “rock solid” security “. He also stated that “changing your verified name will result in loss of checkmark until the…

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VLC Player unbanned in India months after silly ban, now available for download

The Indian Ministry of Electronics and IT has removed the ban on the website of VLC media player. People in India can now download this multimedia player. VLC media player can now be downloaded in India. The multimedia player, which was banned earlier this year, is now available for use again. The ban on the VLC media player website has been lifted by the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) of India broke the news first, claiming to have assisted the company in providing…

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 Google opposes Facebook-backed proposal for self-regulatory body in India

Google plans to create a self-regulatory body for the social media sector in India. India proposed establishing a government panel to hear user complaints about content moderation decisions In June. Representatives from Snap Inc. and popular Indian social media platform ShareChat joined Facebook, Twitter, and Google at the meeting. Google has serious reservations about creating a self-regulatory body for the social media sector in India to listen to user complaints, even though the proposal has the support of Facebook and Twitter. India proposed establishing a government panel to hear user…

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Krafton says will cooperate with Indian govt to resolve BGMI ban

Krafton, the developer of Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI), said on Thursday that it is working closely with Indian authorities following the ban on its most popular Battle Royale game, which has over 100 million users in the country. During the company’s quarterly earnings call, Kraft CFO Bae Dong-geun stated that the company respects and understands the Indian government’s concerns. “We have been directly running the service based on stringent data security standards and monitoring. We will closely cooperate with the authorities to find ways for the users in India to…

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Why Meta’s New AI Powered Chatbot Hates Facebook?

BlenderBot, a chatbot launched by Meta on Friday, has already been corrupted by the darker parts of the web. BlenderBot thinks it’s a plumber to ease us in with the strange but harmless. BlenderBot, like many of us, is critical of how Facebook collects and uses data. That wouldn’t be surprising if the chatbot hadn’t been created by Meta, Facebook’s parent company. Things become much more contentious from this point forward. BlenderBot believes the far-right conspiracy that the US presidential election was rigged, Donald Trump is still president, and Facebook…

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India plans to make Google, Facebook pay news publishers for using their content

Big digital companies like Google and Facebook may soon have to pay news publishers a price for utilizing their original content. The government has intimated that it is considering acquiring major content-creation companies such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Twitter, and Amazon. Pay a percentage of revenue to Indian newspapers and digital news publishers for using their original content. Countries such as Australia, Canada, France, and Spain have already implemented the technique. The Minister of State for IT and Electronics, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, said the government is currently thinking about revising…

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Meta tells managers to identify low performers, employees fear layoffs

Meta has apparently requested company managers to identify poor performers, just weeks after the company warned of difficult times ahead. Some Meta employees are concerned about losing their jobs soon, while others are concerned about mass layoffs later. According to reports, Mahar Saba, Meta’s VP for Remote Presence, has directed managers to identify team members who “require care.” Saba has also reportedly instructed managers to “move to exit” under-performers and those “who are unable to get on track.” In the meantime, Meta rival Google is also slowing down hirings this…

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Meta’s new AI model to improve translation quality

Meta has unveiled NLLB-200, a new AI model that can translate 200 languages and improves quality by 44 percent on average. For a long time, translation apps have been fairly adept at the most common languages. Even if they do not provide an exact translation, it is usually close enough for the native speaker to understand. However, hundreds of millions of people in multilingual regions such as Africa and Asia continue to be underserved by translation services. In a press release, Meta wrote: “To help people connect better today and…

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Ecosystem Being Created to Make Social Media More Accountable: Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw

Union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday called social media a “very powerful medium,” adding that how to hold it accountable is a “very valid question” and that an ecosystem is being built around the world, and also in India. According to the Union Minister of Railways, Communication, and Electronics and Information Technology, self-regulation is the first step toward holding social media accountable, followed by industry regulation and then government regulations. “Social media is a very powerful medium. Social media has a big influence on our lives. How to make…

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