KARACHI:Facebook restricted access to over 5,000 pages, posts and other content in Pakistan between January and June 2019 – the highest in the world – followed by Mexico with 4,727 content restrictions, the social media giant said in a report released on Wednesday. According to the Facebook Transparency Report, the amount of content it restricted access to in Pakistan […]
KARACHI: On a historic day for communal politics in South Asia, discourse around Kartarpur opening and Ayodhya verdict dominated Twitter’s worldwide panel throughout Saturday. The Ayodhya verdict was issued by India’s top court hours before the historic opening in Pakistan of the Kartarpur Corridor, which allows Indian Sikhs to arrive in Pakistan without a visa […]
PESHAWAR: An app is going to be launched on Nov 19 to help people, particularly tourists, find public toilets across the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. This was announced by Imranullah Mohmand, assistant coordinator of water and sanitation services cell (W&SC) of local government department, while briefing Special Assistant to Chief Minister on Science and Technology, Kamran […]
ISLAMABAD.: As fears of data leakage escalate in the country, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) led government has decided to develop an indigenous application called “Govt-APP” for all official communication and is likely to quit the use of over-the-top (OTT) service like WhatsApp. According to a decision taken during the cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister […]
ISLAMABAD: While Pakistan tops the list of countries for making requests to block contents, Facebook has decided to launch digital literacy programme next year 2020 in order to create awareness among users to get benefits for use of technology. “In Pakistan, we are planning to launch digital literacy programme next year 2020 to help users […]
ISLAMABAD: Although Pakistan is among countries where most content is restricted on Facebook, cases of harassment remain under-reported due to a lack of public awareness on reporting mechanisms. Speakers at an awareness talk held on Thursday said that the use of social media platforms was becoming increasingly restrictive for women and the challenge to ensure […]
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Senate’s Committee on Interior Senator Abdul Rehman Malik has taken notice of showing derogatory, objectionable, immoral and defamatory contents and vulgar video clips through Facebook, twitter, Tiktok, YouTube on social media and directed the FIA to take immediate action against those account holders who were releasing these immoral contents on the social media […]
The country head of YouTube in Singapore shared with the only Pakistani to have over 2.5 million subscribers on YouTube, Nadir Ali Shah, that by 2023, YouTube FanFest will take place in Pakistan. The FanFest gathers YouTube’s biggest stars from screens to live stages all over the world, and celebrates their freedom to be heard, […]
ISLAMABAD: Ninety-five per cent of the country’s women journalists feel online violence has an impact on their professional work, according to a Media Matters for Democracy (MMfD) report. The report titled ‘Hostile Bytes — a study of online violence against women journalists’ was launched on Friday to coincide with the International Day to End Impunity […]
KARACHI: Over 200 requests for content removal were sent by Pakistani authorities to Twitter in the first half of this year, the highest so far, according to a biannual report of the social networking website. The website’s transparency report released on Thursday said that between January and July of 2019, the government sent 273 requests […]
KARACHI: It may have been a sign of stricter government controls: the number of accounts reported to Twitter by the Government of Pakistan has dropped by 40% year on year in the first six months of 2019, according to the social networking site’s 15th biannual report. The number of profiles reported between January and June this year stands at […]
The advent of e-books and e-readers in this digital age has definitely affected the reading patterns of people. Still, the era of printed books, or p-books, doesn’t seem to be over. Author Muneeza Shamsie made this point on Saturday evening as she spoke to a gathering organised by the Readerscafe at a coffee shop in […]
Advances in information communication technology (ICT) have made the Internet and our devices an essential part of the way we experience life — from acquisition of goods and services to the creation of opportunity and access. Digital access is considered a human right by the United Nations and the world is so interconnected through this […]
Keeping in view the spread of information from various sources including social and other media, the speakers at a training workshop stressed the need of media literacy for all news consumers in order to make them able to access and analyze information. The two-day workshop on Tools for Media Information Literacy (MIL) was organized by […]
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