Given the discrepancies that have come to our attention via our review so far, The Wire will also conduct a thorough review of previous reporting done by the technical team involved in our Meta coverage. | Continue reading
In light of the concerns and doubts raised about our coverage of Meta, we are setting up an internal review of all documents, information, source material and sources used for these stories. | Continue reading
By repeatedly making wild claims about The Wire’s evidence, the company hopes we will feel obliged to seek and publish further information that could be more easily traced back to our sources. We are not prepared to play this game any further. | Continue reading
A point-by-point response to Meta’s statement questioning The Wire’s story on the ease with which the BJP IT Cell head is able to get Instagram to delete posts he reports. | Continue reading
In the third part of its exclusive investigation, The Wire analyses the activities of a 'Tek Fog' operator who used the app to automate abuse and engineer Twitter trends to communalise public conversations on the platform and subject women reporters to abuse. | Continue reading
A culture of impunity engendered by the AFSPA has made it easy for security forces to get away with several human rights violations. | Continue reading
WhatsApp assures users that no one can see their messages — but the company has an extensive monitoring operation and regularly shares personal information with prosecutors. | Continue reading
That a bureaucrat told police to 'break the heads' of farmers who were protesting in Karnal indicates that those in the system have bought into the narrative that farmers are the problem. | Continue reading
An excerpt from Binoo K. John's 'Top Game: Winning, Losing and a New Understanding of Sport'. | Continue reading
In complete contrast to its founding ideals, the WHO is now captured by wealthy countries and corporations at the cost of millions of poor globally. | Continue reading
Hulio and Lavie’s version of the Silicon Valley story starts in a renovated chicken coop on a kibbutz in central Israel. Eleven years later, NSO is a 750-employee company that is valued by investors at over $1.5 billion. | Continue reading
Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson admitted to an Icelandic newspaper that he lied about being asked to hack computers in order to get immunity and misrepresented his ties with the Wikileaks founder. | Continue reading
The IT ministry reached an understanding that the US tech giant's iMessage app would not be considered a social media intermediary. | Continue reading
In the new report “The Amazon Panopticon,” UNI Global Union catalogues the various methods Amazon uses to pile pressure on workers through extreme surveillance and monitoring. | Continue reading
The breach involved personal data, such as name, contact, passport, ticket and credit card details, but no passwords were affected. | Continue reading
According to Ballia residents, at least 45 bodies were seen floating at the Ujiyar, Kulhadia and Bharauli ghats in the Narahi area. | Continue reading
A good chunk of the tweets, which are now withheld from public view in India, criticised either the Centre's handling of the pandemic or the recent Kumbh Mela gathering. | Continue reading
Among the accounts withheld are those belonging to the magazine 'Caravan', the farmers' protest account Kisan Ekta Morcha, and the Prasar Bharati CEO. | Continue reading
Joseph Stephens’ life history forces us to rethink our understanding of India’s railway development, the wider distribution of colonial wealth in the Western world, and the transnational nature of British imperialism. | Continue reading
Madagascar's restrictive citizenship policy is not an outlier but a trendsetter as countries around the world look to preserve their ethnic mix or wholly exclude communities. | Continue reading
Not just Begum Hazrat Mahal and Rani Lakshmibai but dozens of women participated in active fighting against the British. Their stories are largely unrecorded. | Continue reading
In response, Facebook said it had long argued that end-to-end encryption is necessary to protect people's most private information. | Continue reading
While a media report said that the Delhi police had now retracted the notice, the website still appears to be blocked. | Continue reading
It is important to remember that the early Gandhi had little contact with Africans and did not understand their sensitivities. | Continue reading
The deaths of 58-year-old Jayaraj and his 31-year-old son Bennix, who owned a mobile shop in Sathankulam, have sparked outrage across the country even as many questions remain unanswered. | Continue reading
Every day, the ruling party's symbolism of violence is translated deeper into reality. | Continue reading
It's one hundred years since Albert Einstein readied his theory of general relativity, which linked up matter, geometry and light in ways that continue to astound modern physicists. | Continue reading
"If I owned a newspaper, my headline tomorrow would just be the word '20' because it is the twentieth day that the people of Kashmir have been subjected to these restrictions on their freedoms," says Kannan Gopinathan. | Continue reading
Computers equipped with artificial intelligence video analytics software are able to monitor footage in real time, flag unusual activities, and identify faces in crowds. | Continue reading
In the 1940s and 1950s, experimentalists dredged up the so-called strange particles, a group of really heavy particles that Murray Gell-Mann studied to make sense of the strong nuclear force. | Continue reading
The dynastic blood relation as a prop for personal advancement is a fundamental theme of our cultural ethos, and it stifles original research and thinking in India. | Continue reading
Why do so many Indians have this overwhelming desire to prove Einstein wrong? | Continue reading
Mid-day meal cooks in Bihar – mostly women from Dalit and Adivasi communities – are subject to the worst kind of institutional gender discrimination. | Continue reading
A Chinese sci-fi epic is breaking box office records and exporting a vision of a new world order as it does so. | Continue reading
An estimated 200 million workers across various sectors carried out a protest against the Modi government’s ‘anti-labour’ policies. | Continue reading
The court has placed strict restrictions on the scope of the project while striking down contentious provisions of the Aadhaar Act. | Continue reading
As India moves into a period of climatic uncertainty, it must give serious thought to the counterintuitive option of removing dams instead of creating new ones. | Continue reading
Over the weekend, the billionaire entrepreneur called one of the expert divers in the Thai cave rescue a pedophile after being told Musk's offer to help was a "PR stunt". | Continue reading
With the telecom department accepting the regulator's recommendations, the government will amend the telecom licence agreements to hard-code the new rules. | Continue reading
Saavn received a temporary exemption after Facebook said it cut off access to user data in 2015, while Airtel was authorised to tap into user data as part of an integration partnership. | Continue reading