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  It is stunning but true- social media is becoming a tool to chronologize events. The human atrocities that have been committed in Ukraine will now be preserved through war records assembled from social media sources. Social media companies have therefore been asked to preserve war footages, notes, clips and posts. This includes Meta, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube that have received notices from American politicians asking them to preserve content that could be used to prosecute war criminals. America is not letting Russia get away with murder. War crimes have been committed and there is no easy way to prove this but for evidence to be gathered and crime proven. Letters are said to have been sent by four senior Democrats who chair powerful committees in the House of Representatives relating to oversight, foreign affairs and national security. Not essentially legally binding, the pressure to take Russia to task remains high on agenda. One of the letter states, that gathering su...

Parag Agarwal’s wife Vineeta Agarwala seems to have been caught in the wrong spot when it comes to Elon Musk’s buyout of Twitter. It was Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) – that had agreed to pay $400 million as part of Musk's new $7.1 billion financing commitments. One of America’s top US VC firms apparently, has Vineeta Agarwala as its general partner. Rumour goes that the whole deal is now going to pose a conflict of interest owing to Ms. Agarwala’s association with Twitter and the funding itself. With the possibility of Musk becoming a partial CEO of the newly acquired microblogging platform, Parag’s position now become insecure as CEO. If asked to leave, he would receive nearly $39 million due to a clause in his contract on sudden termination of services. His total compensation for 2021 was $30.4 million, largely in stocks. However, if the deal has come through an ‘under-the-table’ understanding, his exit could mean a huge kickback later, economists feel. All this has come to s...

Twitter takes a stand with Conservative mis-informative tweet Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been shamed by Twitter for underplaying the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccination drives in the United States. She has been suspended for a week to tweet on the social media platform, after she indulged in false publicity. This was done after Greene’s posts were found to be worth being labelled under the Twitter ‘Covid-19 misleading information policy’ and therefore, ‘the account will be in read only mode for a week’ due to repeated violations of Twitter rules. According to Greene’s tweet, the Food and Drug Administration shouldn’t ‘formally approve the vaccines’ which have been made available through emergency authorization for mass inoculation and quick control of the Delta variant spread. It is been seen that the conservative freshman lawmakers at many times has falsely claimed that these vaccines are failing and that cases of infection and spread of Covid-19 amongst vaccinated pe...