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Podcast: One Thing Today in Tech
Episode: India to create appeals body for social media complaints; Apple shows off new MacBooks; Zomato to buy Blinkit
Description: India’s central government is planning to create an appeals body where people can complain against social media posts, instead of having to go to the courts, according to a press release on Monday by the country’s ministry of electronics and information technology.
The appeals body will be called the ‘Grievance Appellate Committee’. Users will have the option to appeal against the grievance redressal process of the intermediaries before this new appellate body, according to the press release. ‘Intermediaries’ refers to companies such as Google, Meta and Twitter, which own and operate platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, In...