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The TikTok app is planning to create an ‘Account status’ page that lets creators and users see what kinds of violations they’ve received.Image: TikTokTikTok has potential bans weighing heavy on its mind, so much so that it’s planning to completely remodel how it will decide to ban accounts that violate its policies. Julie de Bailliencourt, TikTok’s global head of policy, wrote in a Thursday blog post that the platform was shaking up its content moderation policy, letting creators and users know what sorts of violations…

We have come across several incidents where people have got into trouble for driving on beach. It looks like people are not learning those incidents and are repeating these acts. It looks like, driving a vehicle on beach has become a trend among tourists and this time around, we have a report from Goa’s Morjim beach where an individual drove a Toyota Innova Crysta MPV onto the beach. The image of the person with the Innova Crysta on the beach are circulating on the internet and Goa’s tourism department also came across…

Donald Trump’s Twitter account was permabanned back in 2021 after the Jan. 6 insurrection. The company’s stated reasoning for the ban remains up and active, despite his account being reinstated in recent days.Photo: pcruciatti (Shutterstock)Last month, Gizmodo considered who could be the worst people to get their Twitter accounts back under new CEO Elon Musk’s rule. Well, we guessed right with a few of those accounts already back on while other, completely unexpected accounts have also had their profiles reinstated. On…

Some of the most infamous involve fire drills, early aughts text messages and pink slips for Christmas. Twitter Inc.'s mass layoffs have shocked onlookers and insiders alike, but it's not the first company — and won't be the last — to be seen as bungling the messy business of sacking staff.Since billionaire Elon Musk bought the social media platform for $44 billion, he fired close to 3,700 people, only to reach out to dozens soon thereafter to ask them to come back. Twitter didn't reply to a request for comment. All…

Nope, it’s not a hoax but indeed an order from the Government of Gujarat to the police force of that state. As per the Government of Gujarat, nobody will have to pay a traffic fine in Gujarat, between the 21st and 27th of October, 2022, the period that coincides with Diwali/Deepawali – the festival of lights. Common fines such as not wearing a helmet, seatbelts, and riding in the wrong side of the road will be excused, and vehicle owners will not be penalized during this year’s Diwali week. Instead, traffic offenders…

Issa Rae has claimed that the response to the allegations against Ezra Miller have shown “the lengths that Hollywood will go to to protect” alleged offenders.In recent years, a number of allegations have been levelled against Miller, including those of disorderly conduct, assault and burglary.The actor, who uses they/them pronouns, was also accused of grooming and “psychologically manipulating, physically intimidating and endangering the safety and welfare” an 18-year-old by her father.However, the teenager denied that…

“There is such a pool of raw talent in prisons,” says David Jones, CEO of Changing Tunes and co-founder of Red Tangent Records. “There are who potentially have a real chance of making it in the music industry so we thought we should do something for them.”Red Tangent was founded in 2021 by the team behind Changing Tunes, a charity that uses music to support UK prisoners and ex-prisoners in leading lives free from crime. “Red Tangent is a label for people with lived experiences of prison run by people with lived…

A first-of-its kind database of arrested narcotics offenders has been made operational for use by various central and state prosecution agencies tasked to enforce anti-drugs laws in the country, officials said.The portal — NIDAAN or the National Integrated Database on Arrested Narco-offenders — has been developed by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).It is part of the narcotics coordination mechanism (NCORD) portal that was launched by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on July 30 in Chandigarh during the national conference…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In one of the first demonstrations of its kind, the Flinders University-led international study questioned hundreds of adults about acts of self-punishment which managed to garner their sympathy for the offender. …

Image for representation. (Credits: Twitter)Vellore district police have installed Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras at border check posts to auto-detect traffic offenders.IANS Last Updated:April 28, 2022, 09:22 ISTFOLLOW US ON:Vellore district police have installed Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras at border check posts to auto-detect traffic offenders.These cameras will capture the photograph of the number plates of vehicles and analyse data that is already fed into the system. The ANPR…