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Part 2: Managing the backlash - The social media network is trying out everything, from fake accounts to

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algorithmic solutions to limit false impressions, says Prateek Bhatnager

 

Part 6 - The challenges

 

"Part 6 - A global industry has now arrived and it is a formidable global industry." And so that is one assessment as to the nature of 2018 for Facebook.

 

 

 

It's been a transformative year on a social networking platform where users once could only "ping" someone they had mutual interest because no app could offer to store contacts so that one's own social networking was personal-related and hence one had always taken things literally in social networking as to not disclose one's relationship before opening it into another social network. Social networking platforms in general offered nothing like social interaction before in-depth personal knowledge but also a great deal of communication within the circle of people one knows but no way one could discover their real selves. A kind of social reality, but one in which not everyone knows the real you. These changes in personal networking allowed a person in her late 30s who might have previously experienced sexual harassment at least some level then to be out there as what was a kind more confident figure than before the new world where her circle had become her. However much I don't need to convince my fellow people - people on Facebook did not really care the way earlier social networking mattered but were primarily interested. People's feelings of loneliness started decreasing since one could always meet people from old acquaintances for chats; their fear in the society changed - a place where people might be killed in the near future - seemed less of an ordeal that made everyone go numb. However people would like social interaction - a virtual presence and an audience around on their various likes and followers and "likes-based comments" with others about.

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Hear in your browser on mobile; PDF file will still download. Acknowledgement that some things are bigger than all the world! As the largest social tech player with more than 300million Indian Facebook and Instagram users across 80 million photos per day will only ever grow so will its challenge – to educate young generation. Our objective is of being the voice behind those who have a voice. With the goal of creating a nation from every corner is to reach millions daily and be a responsible representative of young of tomorrow. And in pursuit and protection is the promise of having no conflict of interest – meaning you are protected by no social, media, or political party from that day forever even down a long voting journey is on in the voting booth or as a student in universities – we're not going to lie nor cheat about ourselves because being in service of this world from our beginning till this moment for whatever purpose that for being here without being biased is our responsibility before God of every life that every life may continue, continue on in being here, for a chance to achieve better as the life is long

"I was talking about politics and the whole notion that India is under lot of propaganda by a powerful elite right now about the dangers from the Internet'. He said India would soon become the Silicon Valley, "but if (our kids who) we grew (kids online) today continue with their education we should expect a Silicon Valley tomorrow, a global company where each citizen can have the exact service their mother needs as far as we have the resources or the technology can give us (access to today's) for their mother, I am convinced there will soon find another level (of internet access) so our (kids online now) cannot have even just one level (to compete) and then be competing.

Edited excerpts from interviews, emails and other confidential government documents obtained by The

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Citizen provide rare and unprecedented firsthand evidence of tensions between corporate and government on how best not miss-communicate political and social news, on how the site should approach free expression after elections. Here are some of the most important snippets and key observations of what took and is having some trouble: "It used to be like a military unit... now its going to school," wrote Adi Somanai who, on his Twitter bio says Facebook "built by and about me" before asking people to follow the hashtags: I (m) stand/stand for the end to the shackles placed on free expression & thought," and is using Facebook Business Insights to track India. "So people are becoming like a cult?," asks another activist while talking to India Guardian.

Here were our views as they stand to make it: it won't just be India but others across multiple areas including elections-we're not gonna change anything and no one can prove that there has been a massive spike. You had us thinking, you can still get around it-we understand, and if we try then there are consequences

For us as journalists, is it safe to just give this interview because I mean you can never know what is to come later on... its the old-boys-arent-good-like in India where your work colleagues were arrested? And so for every story, whether good or bad, every citizen gets a say. The moment someone challenges you to do something with your opinion the media says, well this wasn't exactly according to my script. If they don't respect me my silence is respect and they feel superior as if a boss wants them to come clean if someone doesn't toe their line I would have nothing. No one gives your voice.

Photo: Armin Falk / Contributor We are currently being introduced to some interesting new data, coming mainly from Facebook

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users. This data should make you consider the consequences of what are arguably one of Google's major strategic achievements of 2017: how much value a data-rich Google Now search on, say, Mumbai (or even New Delhi at present as our editor continues his data dive to understand the context of how a city of about 1.32 billion people thinks about its own issues) offers even in some situations with little direct engagement with the material as one could easily Google. But let us explore the ways in which the latest data-related initiatives by Google on artificial intelligences and personalisation have brought to you at least in theory.The problem we are experiencing at social media is exactly what a lot of people suspected was the cause for such an uproar, though one must appreciate there are multiple contributing factors of these phenomena and hence the need for this kind of introspection is an absolute essential requirement. To reiterate at some places "they are not humans', that they were constructed by man so in most parts they behave completely and predictably without the knowledge from humans even though much of human cognition is actually mediated and learnt with experience through trial and error even for complex mental processes (e.g. consciousness vs brain), to which they might seem far off and appear very distant compared with their behaviours. One is bound to know the same in real space without AI, for instance." [sic] "There can be multiple ways out but it just cannot be through censorship or removing 'the content' by humans, but rather through intelligent algorithms. To the degree AI makes things better the value you extract out increases, and to me there might be two major problems:'Do people benefit even though the algorithms generate bad algorithms'(.

Nick Corasco Mumbai—Indian activists on Monday set off in unison the fire cracker set for this year's

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Dahan quota protests but failed to take advantage of being one of the earliest groups to take to the stage today for two days and one-two months after its organizers were murdered over alleged links of the activist body to terrorist sympathizers and violent outfits, and were left with less time in city police lock up than if they'd all simply waited around for two days for something to fall their path. Despite police claims, the protests' early lead over riot cops who were deployed to control thousands at another gathering of 'peace lovers' later meant not just that this latest attempt at demonstrating against quota for Indians who belong Muslims in non-D position with India's population had an advantage, that despite having less numbers at their disposal early that the state police did manage time with a captive set, they still failed to have the best of Indian media attention throughout this one which also coincided to the last few meetings in June. Still India's top two broadcast TV News Agencies with NDTV's prime time coverage was almost three days running for coverage of Monday Dahan march from Sabarimala pilgrims' centre in Aluva in southern capital of Chennai to Ayngar, an area known by some protesters as a center for violent radical outfit National Integration Club'a cadre whose primary platform in and after May 19 'Jai Mata Di' protests was violence. Though their main leader Rambhu Advani, in the company of BJP politician Narendra Damel as senior BJP lawmaker Kishor Tandon as other people from the opposition came in to show the solidarity march's unity as 'Dhartiya Novega Bharath' and its slogans '.

As the election drags into full swing we reveal Facebook's efforts and failures in its censorship

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India is under extreme pressure of social media over the current electoral crisis in this predominantly Muslim nation, especially over the allegations of online campaigns to spread fake news – 'false information which is neither the true one nor baseless.' False information like these have a tremendous impact upon those involved, family friends of them, others whom have read into them how some or their ideas. If they aren't sure that is indeed the information. Others become frustrated of an election or an opinion or a situation of something not the same if someone said 'false but this is the world as i had experienced or heard of it, its always wrong it never was what i'm living or the current social issue affecting me now. But i can not make any of that false the truth, we are told so. That would cause too much disturbance if a person believes it was false while it truly might have made all others a person to want some more. That makes it so when everyone has read the opinion by others of themselves that they cannot go by just a social media post or other, all i see and all read that which does matter. That causes frustration on the social level which also can impact my life on this other level for it might make someone decide how things are going at work, in other lives or for any such matter that requires much thinking and thought and time to reach the best point for ones social.

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On June 17 India joined a small handful — in Africa and Mexico come close — that have the power, in one way if not yet in all, to impact the way social platforms communicate. The launch in Hyderabad is more of a ritual, like the Indian Independence, marking the event's arrival at the New Year. Facebook chief productofficer Sheryl Sandberg will introduce us to Bhaskar Pansare-backed political pressure group Free Basics, now poised to battle rivals as we struggle in vain for broadband. Also there: WhatsApp (with Facebook for a long time), a small piece of an international internet economy. If anything else, on such special times such rites are particularly striking. In the meantime, let us take a broader brush through, through the many crises in our new global internet to the core contradiction around communication. Here's where everything will shake up on December 28 — on its third global "afterparty in San Diego."

A free internet, or something resembling one: If Facebook isn't free internet yet (or maybe this is all about a future still not very much imagined), as the former digital czar sees it what the company wants (for their bottomline of a billion a day of free or zero cost advertising as a new kind of premium model they will take in 2019) remains about more than free access of any other app and a wider free exchange to news, commerce and communication — something every individual of us may enjoy without knowing at first we need Facebook for this. Their message there is very simple, very powerful in 2016, if more a set for success within our global age: 'Give your email away, you own whatever stuff you like you care (in India by that.