By Anjali Menon Khushboo Khan is the oldest helpline responder at Tech Sakhi. A homemaker once, she was thrilled to find an opportunity in the social sector that allowed her to work remotely. When she first joined in 2021, Khushboo was unfamiliar with many online threats and security concerns. “Before the training process, I didn't even know that it was possible to report someone on Instagram and Facebook,” she recalled. Now, juggling two daily shifts between 9 and 7, she aptly handles the digital safety concerns of people, mostly women, on the Hindi helpline. The Need for A HelplineLaunched i...
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By Hera Rizwan The Oversight Board has urged Meta to update its policies after reviewing its handling of AI-generated explicit images. The company’s semi-independent board recommended changing the term "derogatory" to "non-consensual" and relocating these policies from the “Bullying and Harassment” section to the “Sexual Exploitation Community Standards” section. These recommendations follow two high-profile incidents where explicit, AI-generated images of public figures were posted on Instagram and Facebook, putting Meta in a difficult position. Currently, Meta's policies on explicit AI-gener...
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By Waquar Hasan Arun Kumar, an unemployed youth from Gopalganj in Uttar Pradesh’s Fatehpur district, was desperate for a job to support his family after the death of his parents. As the sole breadwinner, he faced mounting pressure. This is when he came across social media influencer Balwant Kataria, popularly known as Bobby Kataria, on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. Kataria, with his promises of lucrative job opportunities in countries like the UAE, Canada, and Saudi Arabia, seemed to be a beacon of hope. When Kumar contacted Kataria, he was asked to visit Kataria’s office in Gurgaon. On Fe...
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By Adrija Bose Editor’s note: The story contains references of child abuse videos. It started with a fight between a 16-year-old girl and her 17-year-old boyfriend. She wanted to call a truce so she agreed to his terms: “Send a nude video”. Within minutes, it had reached multiple other boys’ phones in their class. When her parents found out, they met the boy’s parents and pleaded with them to take the video down. “Even though he deleted the video, it was all over the Internet,” said Chitra Iyer, founder of Space2Grow, a consulting firm that expertises on digital safety of children. Iyer got in...
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By Hera Rizwan Vikas*, a wholesale vegetable dealer from Bareilly, came across an Instagram ad featuring Shah Rukh Khan promoting a Telegram channel of a match predictor named ‘Zain CBTF’. The video seemingly of the Bollywood actor refers to Zain as the “god of betting prediction”, boasting about Zain's impressive streak of predicting winning IPL teams. The ad claims Zain had to flee to Nepal as “several bookies were after his life”, but still runs the Telegram channel helping people mint money out of betting. Vikas took the bait and joined the Telegram channel. He placed a bet on an IPL match...
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By Jaishree Kumar When Yash Sharma, 25, and his mother attended the annual pride parade in Delhi in 2022, the photos went viral. Sharma was used to facing hate online, but this time, the trolls targeted his mother too. “It’s odd and worrying, people like my mother have accepted their queer children, why should they face such harassment?” he said. A queer-rights activist and founder of Official Humans of Queer, Sharma runs a page on Instagram dedicated to documenting queer stories from across the spectrum. Sharma would notice a pattern of trolling on his page, they were most prominent when a tr...
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By Waquar Hasan In February this year, Mohammed Yusuf Alam, a labourer in Hyderabad, stumbled upon an advertisement about an interest-free loan while scrolling on Instagram. A form to apply for the loan was attached to the ad. He applied for a loan of one lakh rupees intending to build a house back in Godda district in Jharkhand from where he hails. “I got a call from someone. Then I was contacted through WhatsApp. They asked for fee charges of 1,750 rupees,” he said. Over the next few days Alam got two calls asking him to pay 3,200 rupees. “This is how it continued till they swindled around 4...
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By Titha Ghosh If you're on social media, you'll likely have seen the “All Eyes on Rafah” image all across your feed. "All eyes on Rafah", the text on the image reads, atop a field of refugee tents neatly stretching into the distance, nestled between a hill range and cloudy skies. However, the image is not from Rafah in Gaza, and it surfaced after an Israeli strike on a tent encampment for displaced people in Rafah, killing 45 people and eliciting worldwide outrage. This "All eyes on Rafah" image that has been shared more than 47 million times on Instagram, experts agree is AI-generated. It ha...
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By Hera Rizwan As Meta prepares to unveil its expansive Llama 3 AI model, indications suggest that the company has already using Instagram and Facebook data for its training. Users of these platforms are automatically enrolled to provide consent for this data usage. Although they retain the choice to opt out, the process involves multiple steps, raising potential concerns regarding data privacy. To power chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude, extensive datasets are essential for training. Insufficient training data is recognized as a potential obstacle to the future development of generativ...
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By Archis Chowdhury In the beginning of April, Meta revamped its rules on AI-generated content and deepfakes, and announced the labelling of AI-generated video, audio and images with "Made with AI". In India, Meta platforms has since been flooded with political deepfakes, but the "Made with AI" label is nowhere to be seen. Political parties have been using AI to target their opponents for months, and appear to have free rein on Facebook and Instagram, with their official and proxy pages riddled with deepfakes, often shared as satire. Celebrities and politicians have become fair game for memes ...
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