KARACHI: The Sindh High Court was informed on Thursday that two missing social media activists of the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf had returned safely to their homes. Last week, three petitions were filed in the SHC seeking whereabouts of Mohammad Arshad Siddiqui, head of the PTI’s social media team Karachi, and two social media activists — […]
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta on Wednesday announced a collaboration with the International Fact-Checking Network’s (IFCN) nonprofit Poynter Institute to create a free introductory fact-checking course serving journalists in the Asia Pacific region, including Pakistan. According to a press release issued today to announce the joint project, the course will comprise three modules focusing on […]
The absence of ministers from the Senate sessions has become so consistent that the treasury senators, along with those belonging to the opposition, on Friday demanded that the chairman should take notice of this matter. Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani, who was presiding over the proceedings of the upper house of parliament, assured the lawmakers that […]
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf lawmakers and supporters staged a protest near the PIDC Intersection against enforced disappearances and illegal detention of the party’s social media activists. The protestors blocked roads leading to Karachi Port, Cantt Railways Station, City Railways Station, The CM House and the Governor House. PTI Parliamentary Leader in Sindh Assembly Khurram Sher Zaman, PTI […]
KARACHI: A PTI social media activist who attended a protest against “enforced disappearances” of his fellow party workers has been missing since Friday, family and the police said on Saturday. Mohammed Salman, general secretary of PTI Sindh’s social media wing and chairman-elect of Union Council-8 at Karachi’s Burnes Road, had left his home in the […]
WASHINGTON: The struggle is to create room for the majority in the virtual space dominated by technology companies and governments, argued Nighat Dad, a Pakistani digital rights activist who participated in this week’s US democracy summit that Pakistan did not officially attend. “It’s really important that … we focus on the experiences of marginalised groups […]
ISLAMABAD: The details of the action taken against malicious and sectarian content on social media were presented in the Upper House, 59,253 URLs based on objectionable content on social media platforms Action against, 35 thousand controversial pages of Facebook were blocked, the ministers also told that there is no car manufacturer available in Pakistan for […]
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) spokesman Tuesday clarified that Chief Justice Muhammad Ameer Bhatti did not have and never had any account on Twitter, Facebook or any other social media platform. “Any tweet or post on those or any other social media platforms attributed to his lordship is, therefore, absolutely fake,” he said in […]
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has denied having PTI activist Azhar Mashwani in custody in a report submitted to the Rawalpindi bench of Lahore High Court (LHC). Justice Chaudhry Abdul Aziz of the LHC Rawalpindi bench on Tuesday heard the habeas corpus petition filed by Mr Mashwani’s brother, Mazharul Hassan. A habeas corpus petition […]
ISLAMABAD: The government is mulling forming a special task force to check social media campaigns against the army, an official source told Dawn on Thursday. He explained that a summary to set up the task force has been moved but was still awaiting approval. “For now it is just a proposal.” The proposed task force […]
There has been a sea change in how we view our broken digital public spaces. We now understand that the intentional design practices of large tech companies are amplifying misinformation and vitriol to keep us engaged and online to increase their advertising revenues. A Seattle school district recently filed suit against Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, […]
KARACHI: A court has asked government institutions to take people’s social media posts highlighting alleged irregularities’ in their functioning as ‘healthy criticism’ instead of treating them as suspects who committed online defamation. Judicial Magistrate (East) Mukesh Kumar Talreja made this observation while dismissing an application of an investigating officer of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) […]
Social media is an important arena of political competition around the world. It not only enables politicians to reach out to the voters but also provides a platform for them to connect and make the common man feel more heard. Pakistani political parties relied on traditional means of communication i.e., television and print media, but […]
LAHORE: Social media is one of the tools that helps writers to convey their message to the people at the time of censorship, says Uzbek writer Hamid Ismailov. Istanbul-based writer and poet Sureyya Evren, Uzbek writer Hamid Ismailov and painter artist Salima Hashmi discussed the topic — Circumnavigating censorship, can art outwit censorship — at […]
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