Harini Calamur's Writings
All things Digital
This appeared in the FPJ Earlier this week, leading advertisers in the United States of America, did the unthinkable. In the face of mounting criticism about the role of social media, in general, and Facebook in particular, in spreading fake news and…
A few days ago Donald Trump, the President of the United States tweeted, as he usually does But, what was unusual was that twitter slapped a fact check label on this, that derailed the not very stable President of the US. He…
This appeared on the 1st day of the year There are two broad polarised views on the start of the new decade – those who believe that the new decade starts in 2020, and others who believe that it starts next year….
This appeared on the 18 of December It is an universe of data out there – a seemingly infinite supply of data points about you and I, that are sliced and diced, then analysed, so that corporations and politicians can sell us…
This piece on Cyber Sovereignty appeared on the 15th of November All of us, citizens or businesses, in the real world are subject to some form or other of government regulation. There are checks and balances on our freedoms, and violations of…
This piece on Twitter banning Political Ads appeared on the 7th of November Last week, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that the platform will not carry any paid political ads. He tweeted “We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on…
This appeared on August 22nd 2019 There is a case before the Supreme Court that looks at the issue of Fake news, and the proposed solution. Representing the Government, Attorney General KK Venugopal is arguing the need to link social media accounts…
This appeared in CNBC-TV18 on the 1st of August Last week the United States President, Donald Trump, had other meltdown on twitter. This time it was directed against the French. The French Parliament had approved a Digital Services Tax of 3% on…
The Indian news media has been expanding in all directions. Print, TV news, and digital have been giving us content of all shapes and hues, in order to attract our eyeballs, and engage us for fractions of a minute. Most of this…
I write about the face off between Twitter and the Indian Parliament for CNBC – TV18 At the core of the stand-off between the Indian Parliament’s standing committee on Information technology and Twitter is the perception by the Indian right wing that…