Twitter Inc. has suspended more than 70 million fake accounts in May and June in a massive drive to clear out bots and trolls on the platform, the media reported. The crackdown on suspicious accounts, which came amid mounting political pressure after Congress criticised Twitter for lax regulation on foreign-controlled fake accounts to spread false information that may impact US...
Washington, July 7 (IANS) To counter the spread of misinformation on its platform, Twitter is suspending over one million fake and suspicious accounts a day which may further hit its already-stalled users' growth, the media reported.According to The Washington Post, the rate of account suspensions has more than doubled since October when the micro-blogging platform revealed to US Congress how...
New Delhi, July 7 (IANS) It was a clear and sunny morning in the national capital on Saturday with the minimum temperature recorded at 28.2 degrees Celsius, normal for this time of the season."The sky will remain partly cloudy throughout the day," an India Meteorological Department (IMD) official said.The maximum temperature was expected to hover around 39 degrees Celsius. The...
San Francisco, July 7 (IANS) Despite the massive Cambridge Analytica data scandal and a couple of users' privacy issues owing to internal bugs, Facebook stock closed at an all-time record high of $203.23 on Friday.Investors are loving the social network more than ever that saw its stocks dipping earlier in 2018 when it was under an intense probe over data...
Bangkok, July 7 (IANS) Thai officials on Saturday ruled out any immediate attempts to evacuate 12 boys and their coach trapped deep inside a system of caves in Chiang Rai province despite concerns over low oxygen levels underground and poor weather forecasts."No, not today," CNN quoted Narongsak Osottanakorn, the governor of Chiang Rai province, as saying to the media.Officials are...
Jammu, July 7 (IANS) A batch of 2,203 Amarnath pilgrims left Jammu on Saturday for the cave shrine in the Kashmir Valley, officials said.The authorities, however, declared the Baltal trek unsafe and suspended the yatra from there. "Due to landslides and shooting stones, the trek from Baltal to the cave shrine is unsafe for the yatris," an official said."It has...
London, July 7 (IANS) Seven-time champion Serena Williams has kept her Wimbledon hopes alive with a hard-fought 7-5, 7-6 (7-2) third-round victory over Kristina Mladenovic.Older sister Venus Williams, however, crashed out of the tournament with a 6-2, 6-7 (5-7), 8-6 loss to Kiki Bertens.Mladenovic served for the first set at 5-4 during the match on Friday but she squandered that...
Washington, July 7 (IANS) US Ambassador to Britain Robert "Woody" Johnson has said US President Donald Trump would like to see a trade deal signed with Britain "as soon as possible".In a teleconference with the media on Friday ahead of Trump's visit to Britain next week, Johnson said Trump "would love to do a bilateral trade deal and he is...
Kazan (Russia), July 7 (IANS) Luck was not on Brazil's side here in their 2-1 defeat to Belgium in a World Cup quarterfinal, the South Americans' coach said afterward, even as he praised the performance of the Belgians."Randomness, accidents, they happen. And today they happened. It hurts to say that. That is not to undermine Belgium, who are a great...
Tehran, July 7 (IANS) Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said the ministerial meeting of the remaining parties to the international 2015 nuclear deal was "constructive"."I believe that there is a political will to continue work and save this agreement but we must see what will happen to this issue in practice," he was quoted as saying by Press...
