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NCPCR summons Facebook official over Rahul Gandhi’s Instagram post

News Bureau — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 06:18:40 +0000

New Delhi: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has issued a summons to Facebook India officials seeking details of the action taken against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for violating norms.
NCPCR asked India’s trust and safety head Satya Yadav to appear before it at 5pm on August 17 virtually and furnish information that what action has been taken against Gandhi for posting a video on his Instagram account revealing the identity of the family of the nine-year-old girl allegedly raped and murdered in southwest Delhi.
On Friday, the child rights body directed Facebook to take action against Gandhi in the matter citing that he violated the provisions of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015, the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act, 2012, and the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The body also sought removal of the video from the platform.
Earlier, NCPCR had also written to Twitter and asked it to take action against Gandhi for posting the family’s photo on twitter, following which, his account had been suspended along with many other Congress leaders for sharing the same tweet.
The party’s official handle was also barred from posting and Congress called it an attack on democracy and blamed twitter for acting under BJP government’s pressure.

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Instagram to ditch chronological user feed for ‘interest’ based one

admin — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 02:11:53 +0000

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc’s picture-sharing app Instagram said it is reshuffling feeds to display curated content that users would ‘care’ about first.

The sequence of posts would be based on the likelihood of interest in the content, the user’s relationship with the person or timeliness of the post, Instagram said in a blog post.

On an average, users miss 70 percent of their feeds, Instagram added.

Instagram is the latest addition to the growing list of social media platforms reorganizing user feed to draw better attention from users.

Twitter Inc, in February, jumped on the feed customization bandwagon and let go of uniformly displaying tweets in reverse chronological order.

Facebook’s feed also displays content in a similar algorithmic fashion based upon user interests.

The widely used photo-sharing app’s decision to move away from its time-based feed could rid it of one prime feature – showing real-time content.

Technology blogger Techcrunch argues that users would have to worry about making their posts good enough to be chosen by the algorithm or their posts could be de-prioritized.

Instagram said the change in the feed for users would roll out in the coming months.

(Reporting by Sangameswaran S in Bengaluru; Editing by Sunil Nair)

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