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Vidhi Choudhary

Vidhi Choudhary

Vidhi covers business of media and entertainment, sports and pop culture for Hindustan Times.

Articles by Vidhi Choudhary

India adds 40 mn new internet users each year

At 400 million active internet users, India is the second largest internet user market after China.

Updated on May 10, 2019 08:32 IST

BJP outspends Congress, others in social media advertising

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is way ahead of the Congress in advertising expenditure on social media at the end of the fourth phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.

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Updated on May 3, 2019 18:05 IST

Avengers: Endgame may mirror Baahubali success

The new film will play in several Indian languages, with 50-60% of the screening estimated to be in Hindi

Updated on Apr 26, 2019 08:52 IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Twitter users can now report misleading tweets on polls

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Twitter announces new feature to report fake news

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Updated on Apr 24, 2019 17:57 IST

Netflix to stream 10 more original films in India, partners with Shah Rukh, Karan Johar

Netflix has commissioned 10 new original films for India.

Updated on Apr 15, 2019 05:55 IST

BJP tops ad spend on Google and YouTube

Image for representation.

Updated on Apr 5, 2019 03:26 IST

To curb fake news in poll season, WhatsApp starts ‘tipline’

WhatsApp has over 230 million monthly active users in India.

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Updated on Apr 2, 2019 18:46 IST

Facebook deletes hundreds of accounts, pages ‘linked’ to BJP, Congress

The Congress said in a statement that none of the pages taken down were officially backed by it or its verified volunteers.

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Updated on Apr 1, 2019 18:21 IST

Facebook apologises for identifying Kashmir as independent

Facebook on Wednesday apologised for identifying Kashmir independent of India.

Updated on Mar 27, 2019 18:51 IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Politics goes TikTok in new-age campaigning

A screengrab of a satirical political video on TikTok.

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Updated on Mar 19, 2019 11:21 IST

India’s air strike, Pak response step up heat on Twitter

India has an estimated 30 million Twitter users but the corresponding number for Pakistan is not independently available. With 13.74 million conversations ( 77.4% of the total), India made up the bulk of these conversations.

Updated on Feb 27, 2019 20:02 IST

‘No evidence of foreign interference in India polls yet’: Twitter vice-president Colin Crowell

Colin Crowell, Twitter’s vice president for global public policy and philanthropy, said the 2019 elections ar critically important for the microblogging site.

Updated on Feb 26, 2019 17:28 IST

Twitter’s public policy head Colin Crowell to attend parliamentary panel on Monday

Twitter has also set up an “internal cross functional elections group” in its efforts to protect the integrity of elections in the country.

Updated on Feb 22, 2019 09:05 IST

Political ideologies don’t dictate policy, product changes: Twitter

Twitter Friday said it believes in impartiality and does not take any actions, such as blocking of accounts, based on political views.

Updated on Feb 8, 2019 18:14 IST

Political advertisements on Facebook to carry disclaimers

Advertisements that reference political personalities, political parties and elections on social networking site Facebook in India will now carry disclaimers about who published and paid for the ad.

Updated on Feb 8, 2019 02:16 IST

Ahead of LS polls, WhatsApp tells political parties not to spam users

India is WhatsApp’s biggest market with more than 200 million users.

Updated on Feb 7, 2019 09:28 IST

Budget: Rise in demand may be limited to FMCG, say experts

While these sops will put some extra money in the hands of the two classes of consumers and boost demand for items of daily use and low-cost staples, they are not expected to lift purchases of more expensive items, executives at other consumer goods companies said.

Updated on Feb 2, 2019 03:48 IST

India on their minds

‘In India, Sacred Games has created a level of awareness for Netflix that didn’t exist before.’

Updated on Jan 6, 2019 06:22 IST

Ad man Piyush Pandey to become global creative chief of Ogilvy

Piyush Pandey, who has three decades of experience in advertising, will be chief creative officer, worldwide, in Ogilvy from January 1, 2019.

Updated on Dec 5, 2018 17:50 IST

What drives fake news in India? Here’s what a BBC study found out

A study done by the BBC World Service Group, titled ‘Beyond Fake News’, used multiple methods to understand the circulation of fake news in India.

Updated on Nov 12, 2018 02:53 IST

Brazil’s experience a red flag for WhatsApp in Indian polls, say experts

WhatsApp has over 200 million users in India, its largest market.

Updated on Oct 21, 2018 01:45 IST

Rural Indians don’t trust messages on WhatsApp blindly: Survey

The Digital Empowerment Foundation survey titled “What’s up Rural India?” recorded responses from only 1018 rural users in 14 states.

Updated on Oct 19, 2018 08:13 IST

A virtual election war room will monitor 2019 polls in India: Facebook’s Richard Allan

Richard Allan, vice president of policy solutions at Facebook, has the crucial task of finding policy fixes at the social media giant for important issues such as privacy, freedom of expression and online child safety.

Updated on Oct 15, 2018 03:27 IST

Asian Games TV viewership better than FIFA World Cup, Wimbledon

Indian fans celebrate after their team's victory against Pakistan in the men's field hockey bronze medal match between India and Pakistan at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on September 1, 2018. (Photo by AAMIR QURESHI / AFP)

Updated on Sep 7, 2018 03:51 IST

20 years of Google: ‘You have full control over your data...’

Rajan Anandan at Google’s Gurugram office.

Updated on Aug 26, 2018 03:38 IST

20 years of Google: When information was not just a click away

UP Police stand guard.

Updated on Aug 26, 2018 04:14 IST

Consent has to be the bedrock on which data is processed: Member of Srikrishna Committee

Justice B N Srikrishna addresses the media after submitting a report on 'Data Protection Framework' to law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, in New Delhi July 27.

Updated on Jul 28, 2018 03:44 IST

Data protection bill will hold tech companies such as Facebook, Google accountable for users’ information

The focus on data protection comes after the scandal in March over access gained by political marketing firm Cambridge Analytica to user’s data collected through Facebook.

Updated on Jul 28, 2018 03:34 IST

WhatsApp terms India trip productive, says top challenge remains fake news

Earlier this month, WhatsApp announced plans to limit the use of forwarded messages to five individuals or groups in a bid to curb the spread of misinformation and fake news.

Updated on Jul 26, 2018 08:24 IST

No-confidence motion: The Rahul-Modi hug reverberates across internet

Congress President Rahul Gandhi hugs Prime Minister Narendra Modi after his speech in the Lok Sabha on 'no-confidence motion' during the Monsoon Session of Parliament, in New Delhi on Friday, July 20, 2018.

Updated on Jul 20, 2018 18:36 IST

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