Trolls

Amid anti-CAA protests, this coder amplified anti-establishment voices by taking down 1.6 lakh bots that disrupted Twitter trends

There has been a general trend in recent weeks of anti-establishment narratives dominating Twitter trends, as opposed to earlier, when pro-government hashtags and trending terms often dominated the conversation.

Nithya Menen on Mission Mangal, working in the Hindi film industry: It's more professional in Bollywood

"I was very happy to work here. I found the environment much more professional, and people easy going. There is less hierarchy," says Nithya Menen.

Video of PJ Kurien translating Rahul Gandhi goes viral: Ridiculing ex-RS deputy chairman done in bad taste, betrays insensitivity

Kurien is a 78-year-old and, at the rally, he was unable to hear Rahul despite training his ears on him. For Kurien, who is of a certain age and the situation was made much worse by the huge din from the crowd, his repeated failures to get what Rahul was speaking made him probably nervous and led to those errors that indeed were serious

Here's why breaking up with Facebook is hard, despite all the privacy scandals

A growing number of people say they are deleting Facebook, or at least considering it.

TM Krishna's concert called off: AAI cites 'exigencies of work', but art and culture fraternity demoralised

Carnatic vocalist TM Krishna has become a target of some right-wing trolls who are objecting to the mention of Jesus and Allah in his lyrics.

Russian Twitter bots and trolls spread false information about vaccines: Study

The Twitter bots and trolls used tactics similar to those at work during the 2016 US elections.

Who trolls better, BJP or Congress? Creativity of online army would put legendary artistes to shame

The moment Rahul Gandhi tweets something, an army descends, mostly humans, but also many bots, to attack him in ways even Picasso would praise.

Twitter blocks polling app MyVoteToday's account over behavioral issues

MyVoteToday in a poll asked people who they want to be silenced and listed names of CMs and others.

Man trolls women for wearing short skirts, Twitter hilariously hits back at him

He was trying to preach women on how to dress. Twitter set him straight just right.

Rajnath Singh calls up Sushma Swaraj, issues first condemnation of EAM's abusive trolls by Union minister

Home minister Rajnath Singh has condemned online abuse of his Cabinet colleague Sushma Swaraj, in the first such statement from a Union minister.