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@PranavDixit

reporter in India covering tech for humans. Professional millennial | Bad at adulting | Bylines: , | PGP: DM

Delhi, sadly
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    Feb 15

    Reminder: If you have tips or information about anything related to tech in India, you can reach me at pranav.dixit@buzzfeed.com or +918800136363. I am on WhatsApp and Signal.

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  2. 4 hours ago

    I can't believe this happened to me AGAIN...but two bikers just snatched my phone from my hand as I was ordering an Uber just standing in a corner, not walking on the road or anything, and drove away on the wrong side at Lado Sarai. Filing a complaint. So numb.

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    10 hours ago

    Ask these questions to suss out a candidate’s emotional intelligence

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  4. 11 hours ago

    Whoops...

    Hey , this isn't a fact. It's
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    14 hours ago

    Here's a job opening that I am massively excited about: is looking for a Reporter for Social Movements - to travel widely and frequently across rural and semi-urban India. Apply here:

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    14 hours ago

    editor: where’s the draft of ur Facebook post me, an intellectual: my team will follow up with you

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  7. 13 hours ago

    Most people at are quite tall. Except obv.

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    19 hours ago

    Facebook hearing has wrapped. Zuck apologized a bunch. We just found another quizmaker asking people for things like their bathing suit size and homeownership status and using that (anonymized) data to target ads to them on Facebook:

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    16 hours ago

    Exactly! None of the brouhaha that is happening now with the Congressional hearings would have happened if say a non US country’s elections were found to have been tampered with using its citizens’ data on Facebook

    A perfect storm of political polarization, digital naïveté, illiteracy, and a lack of significant effort from US tech companies have left India’s electorate uniquely vulnerable to being manipulated online:
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    19 hours ago

    And there's more! On journalists and researchers lamenting the cut off of FB tools: Why Facebook can't put the genie back in the creepy lamp: How quiz makers are still targeting you on FB:

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    19 hours ago

    My colleagues' great Facebook coverage today: On how FB tracks you when you log off: Why Zuckerberg pinning it all on AI is a false promise: Tech platforms and potential issues in the Indian election:

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  12. 16 hours ago

    A perfect storm of political polarization, digital naïveté, illiteracy, and a lack of significant effort from US tech companies have left India’s electorate uniquely vulnerable to being manipulated online:

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  13. Apr 11

    Congressman...yes. 👍

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  14. Apr 11

    Congresman...no. 🤚

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  15. Apr 11

    Facebook, Google And Twitter's Other Election Problem Is Their Largest Market: India via

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    Apr 11

    New from me: I reported out how Mark Zuckerberg’s AI defense is unrealistic. It will never fully address Facebook’s content problems

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    Apr 11

    India is the world’s largest democracy, with a 66% voter turnout in the 2014 general elections. Twitter, Facebook, Google are not doing enough to protect elections from manipulation, writes

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  18. Apr 11

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    American tech companies love to talk about what a big and important market India is. So why aren't they doing more to fix their platforms before its elections? New from me:
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  19. Apr 11

    India's first state elections kick off in May, and the country will have major national elections early next year to determine if gets a second term. The world will be watching what tech companies do in India against that backdrop.

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  20. Apr 11

    Tech platforms only look at solving problems from a global perspective because of their sheer scale, but that doesn't work in a diverse and complex country like India, told me

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  21. Apr 11

    Experts argue that social media companies have limited incentive to improve or self-regulate in India because there isn’t significant and sustained pressure from users, governments, regulators, and the press like in the US

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