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Twitter removes cartoon posted by Gujarat BJP hailing judiciary for awarding death sentence to 38 convicts in 2008 Ahmedabad serial blast case

BJP Gujarat cartoon depicting court awarding death sentence to 38 convicts in 2008 Ahmedabad blast case deleted by Twitter

Facebook removes page promoting the Freedom Convoy opposing vaccine rules in the USA over ‘violation of policies’

The page 'Convoy to DC' was removed by Facebook over allegations that it violated policies over QAnon.

Facebook accepts that its third-party fact checks are nothing but ‘protected opinions’: Reports

Last year, TV journalist John Stossel had published a video on Facebook titled, "Government Fueled Fires' in the aftermath of the 2020 California forest fires. The video was censored by Facebook as 'misleading'.

North Korean man to be shot dead for ‘smuggling’ South Korean show ‘Squid Game’

Squid Games is a popular South Korean drama on Netflix which shows a dystopian world where cash-strapped contestants are pitted against each other in a children's game for huge cash prize. Losing players are sentenced to death in the show.

Twitter censors OpIndia cartoon: How big tech allows defamation of saffron, but goes red when it sees green

On Tuesday, November 2, 2021, Twitter removed an editorial cartoon published by OpIndia on the recent Elle controversy. This is the cartoon that apparently violated Twitter policy.

Twitter suspends popular political satire handle for questioning Rana Ayyub: Here is the satirist’s statement on the issue

Popular Twitter account 'Princess Woke Liberal (@workingboxwali)' was censored and suspended by the micro-blogging site for questioning the promotion of Islamist Rana Ayyub on the Elle Magazine.

Facebook, Instagram ‘removes’ account of mother of slain US marine who slammed Joe Biden in wake of her son’s death

In her post Shana Chappell had expressed her belief that it was US President Joe Biden who was responsible for her son, Kareem Nikoui's death.

China to ban karaoke songs containing ‘illegal content’, to create a blacklist of songs that endanger national unity

China will create a blacklist of karaoke songs containing "illegal content", content providers asked to scrutinise songs for banned content

Twitter censors tweets that exposed liberal hypocrisy over Danish Siddiqui’s photograph, calls it ‘abuse’ and ‘harassment’

Twitter is finding new ways to censor political opinion it is not fond of. This time, it is related to a photograph of Danish Siddiqui.

A day after the death of photo-journalist Danish Siddiqui, strange behaviour is noticed on his Twitter account

On Friday, award-winning Reuters photo-journalist was murdered by the Taliban as he was covering the conflict in Afghanistan

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