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Algorithmic Alibi

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By Correspondent
Meta’s handling of child sexual-abuse material has exposed the hollowness of the tech behemoth’s claim to be merely a simple intermediary. A company whose algorithms decide what millions of users see and that builds its advertising business around that distribution...
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Algorithmic Alibi

From Sleeper Agents to Scrolling Minds, the New Manchurian Candidates

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By Shoumojit Banerjee
Laurence Harvey and Frank Sinatra in John Frankenheimer’s sinister ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ (1962) Meta’s recent apology to the Indian government for briefly restricting a video posted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the turbulent education protests spearheaded by the Cockroach...
Cinema 
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From Sleeper Agents to Scrolling Minds, the New Manchurian Candidates

Platform Politics

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Meta’s apology to the Government of India revives the uncomfortable question of who really controls the flow of political information in today’s turbulent times, the voter or the platform? When the world’s largest social media company admits that it wrongly...
Editorial 
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Platform Politics

Algorithmic Anarchy

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By Correspondent
The NEET paper leak protests at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar should have remained a legitimate expression of student anger over the collapse of examination integrity. Instead, as the agitation escalated into clashes with the police, abusive sloganeering and an increasingly radical...
Editorial 
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Algorithmic Anarchy

Beyond the AI Arms Race: The Apple Way to AI

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By Rupak Bardhan Roy
As the economics and ecology of hyperscale AI begin to crack, Apple’s delayed strategy appears remarkably prescient. Apple’s WWDC 2026 delivered one unmistakable message: it has rebuilt its entire software and device ecosystem around Apple Intelligence. Siri AI has been...
Technology 
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Beyond the AI Arms Race: The Apple Way to AI

From Mumbai to Meta

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By Kiran D. Tare
Kunal Shah’s rise from city entrepreneur to global head of WhatsApp signals that India is producing genuine architects of the digital age. For much of the internet era, the world’s defining digital products were imagined in California. The next chapter...
Newsmaker Of The Week 
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From Mumbai to Meta