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Artist Subodh Gupta was accused of sexual harassment last year in the #MeToo movement

An anonymous Instagram handle had accused the artist of abuse and misconduct

HC asked Facebook to share the details of the anonymous account

Facebook India head Ajit Mohan made this statement yesterday at IMC, Delhi

Mohan noted that there is a gender imbalance in access to internet in India

Facebook has been time and again criticised for its response to online violence

At least 50% of Indian shoppers have purchased using Instagram

Around 75% of customers hailed from Tier 2 and 3 cities

Celebrity influencers are a big factor behind this shopping drive

Indian government, along with members of OECD, may soon frame new tax laws for digital MNCs

The move will be in accordance to global agreement on taxation

Digital MNCs such as Google, Facebook, Uber may have to change their ownership patterns

Email addresses and phone numbers might have been misused

No personal data was shared externally by Twitter

No reports on the number of people impacted have come out yet

WhatsApp Payments was expected to launch in India by the year end

India is WhatsApp’s largest user base with over 400 Mn active users

Indian govt has been pushing for all user’s payments data to be stored locally

International governments have sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

The letter talks about Facebook’s privacy-centric plans, which include end-to-end encryption across its suite of messaging apps

The letter has been signed by US attorney general, UK home secretary, acting US home secretaryand Australia’s minister for home affairs

Subodh Gupta had recently sued the users of Instagram handle with defamation

Facebook, the parent company of Instagram, told to take down posts alleging Gupta of sexual harassment

Facebook yet to talk about its next steps in the case

The bug was found by a security researcher

The “double-free” bug allowed users to access mobile devices, galleries and messages

Facebook has claimed to have fixed the bug in a new version WhatsApp

The yet-to-launch cryptocurrency Libra was announced in June 2019

Libra Association is already under inspection in UK and US

Company's Financial backers rethink their decision

Two hours audio of Facebook internal meetings was leaked

Mark Zuckerberg said that TikTok spending heavily on advertisements

Facebook is planning changes in Instagram’s layout and also working on a new product Lasso

The study noted that WhatsApp has been deploying measures to mitigate this problem

The research was to examine if WhatsApp can control such issues through the techniques it has adopted like limiting forwarding etc

The researchers found that the steps taken by WhatsApp are ineffective in blocking the propagation of misinformation campaigns