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The Supreme Court on Wednesday took notice of “objectionable content” being shared on YouTube and other social media platforms, and issued notices to the Foreign Office and the Attorney General in this regard. A three-member bench, comprising Justice Mushir Alam, Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed and Justice Aminud Din Khan, took notice during a hearing on a bail petition of …

Twitter said on Tuesday it would permanently suspend accounts that violate its policies while tweeting about QAnon, a fringe group that claims “deep-state” traitors are plotting against President Donald Trump. Twitter, which announced the change on its Twitter Safety page, said it would not serve content and accounts associated with QAnon in trends and recommendations, and would block URLs associated …

KARACHI: Federal Minister for Information Technology Syed Aminul Haque on Tuesday said that the court will decide about the ban on the most popular online game, PlayerUnknown’s Battleground (PUBG), in the country. Talking to journalists, Aminul Haque said that the Ministry for Information Technology has nothing to do with the ban on PUBG. He said that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority …

CAPE CANAVERAL: Astronauts squeezed in one last spacewalk on Tuesday before turning their attention to the all-important end to SpaceXs first crew flight. Nasa’s Bob Behnken and Chris Cassidy floated out of the International Space Station on their fourth and final spacewalk in under a month. Instead of swapping batteries, they had to route cables, hook up a tool storage …

KARACHI: While the government is clamping down on “immoral” content online, digital rights experts and social media users have termed the recent bans on digital applications a threat to creative expression by youths who are otherwise devoid of entertainment. In a statement on Monday, the Pakistan Telecommunication Autho­rity (PTA) announced it had issued a “final warning” to video-sharing service TikTok …

Brazil will begin advanced clinical testing of a Chinese-made vaccine against the new coronavirus Tuesday, issuing the first doses to around 900 volunteers, officials said. The coronavirus vaccine, developed by private Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac, is the third in the world to enter Phase 3 trials, or large-scale testing on humans — the last step before regulatory approval. It will …

Russia claimed on Tuesday that the Covid-19 vaccine developed with the Russian Defense Ministry has completed Phase 2 trials and ready for use. “Russia’s first vaccine against the novel coronavirus infection, which was created by military specialists and scientists of the Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, is ready, said First Deputy Defense Minister Ruslan Tsalikov. According to …

WASHINGTON: Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview published on Monday he has “no deal of any kind” with President Donald Trump on content moderation on the social media giant. Zuckerberg, in an interview with Axios, rejected the “speculation” that Facebook had an arrangement that gives the president free rein on the platform. “Let me be clear: There’s no deal of any …

KARACHI: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) banned live streaming application Bigo and issued a “final warning” to video-sharing service TikTok over obscene and immoral content on the platforms. TikTok is a Chinese social networking app that allows users to make video clips, lip sync to songs and create short videos. Last week, a civil miscellaneous application was filed in the …

Astrophysicists on Monday published the largest-ever 3D map of the Universe, the result of an analysis of more than four million galaxies and ultra-bright, energy-packed quasars. The efforts of hundreds of scientists from around 30 institutions worldwide have yielded a “complete story of the expansion of the universe”, said Will Percival of the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. In …