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  • Twitter Drops ‘Government-Funded,’ ‘State-Affiliated’ Labels From Media Accounts

    Twitter dropped the “Government-funded” and “China state-affiliated” labels, which implies government involvement in editorial content, from the accounts of various global media organizations, their profiles showed on Friday. Twitter dropped the “Government-funded Media” label from the accounts of US-based National Public Radio (NPR), British Broadcasting Corp and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). It also dropped the […] More

  • ‘Twitter Verified’ Unfollows All Accounts, Hinting at Winding Down Legacy Verifications

    Twitter’s revoking of legacy verified accounts might finally be getting underway as it has begun a mass unfollowing and now follows ‘no one.’ On the ‘Twitter Verified‘ account, the following has hit the rock bottom as it has reached ‘Zero.’ Twitter’s approximately followed 420,000 legacy verified accounts earlier. Twitter had earlier warned of winding down […] More

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    Excess fee, ghost accounts at 13 Private Medical Colleges in Telangana: HRDA writes to FRC seeking action

    Hyderabad: Alleging that several private medical colleges in Telangana are collecting extra fees from medical students, the Healthcare Reforms Doctor’s Association (HRDA) has recently written to the Telangana Association and Fee Regulatory Committee (TAFRC) urging it to take strict action in this regard. The association has also pointed out that many of the self financing medical […] More