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As a growing number of Indians consume their news and content online, there are high chances that you are accessing this op-ed on a device with components manufactured in China. This long-standing dominance in computer hardware has now tipped over towards software deployment. Today, there are a growing number of online platforms with roots in China. This trend has not gone unnoticed. Local technology entrepreneurs have been visiting these technology companies in China to understand their growing scale and adoption in global markets, including India. There is a sense of admiration…

LONDON: Twitter has removed a vast network of accounts that it says is linked to the Chinese government and was pushing false information favorable to the country’s communist rulers. Beijing denied involvement Friday and said the company should instead take down accounts smearing China. The U.S. social media company suspended 23,750 accounts that were posting pro-Beijing narratives, and another 1,50,000 accounts dedicated to retweeting and amplifying to those messages. The network was engaged “in a range of coordinated and manipulated activities” in predominantly Chinese languages, including praise for China’s response…

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Twitter’s events calendars are not looking as full as they once did, but there are still various opportunities & promotional tie-ins to consider across key dates in June, as per its latest listing. Every month, Twitter publishes a post highlighting the key dates, and referring back to its 2020 calendar,which will be published earlier in the year. And every month, I go through the actual calendar and remove all the events that are no longer happening. And it’s a lot, there’s a lot of functions…