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  • Amitabh Bachchan Calls for Legal Action After Deepfake Video of Rashmika Mandanna Goes Viral Online

    Amitabh Bachchan Calls for Legal Action After Deepfake Video of Rashmika Mandanna Goes Viral Online

    Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has demanded a legal action over a reported morphed video of his Goodbye co-star Rashmika Mandanna Reportedly, a short objectionable video of the actress went viral in the social media. In response to post on X by a user highlighting the alleged misuse of the video, the Piku star said: “Yes this is a strong case.” Amitabh Bachchan Reacts to Deepfake Video of Zara Patel as Rashmika Mandanna, Calls It a ‘Strong Case of Legal Information’.

    “There is an urgent need for a legal and regulatory framework to deal with deepfake in India.You might have seen this viral video of actress Rashmika Mandanna on Instagram. But wait, this is a deepfake video of Zara Patel,” a user named Abhishek wrote on the microblogging site. Along with the post, he also shared the “actual” video as claimed by him. Amitabh Bachchan Drops AI-Generated Image of Himself on Instagram, Big B’s Pic Takes Internet by Storm.

    Amitabh Bachchan Demands Action:

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    Meanwhile, on the work front Big B is currently seen as the host of Kaun Banega Crorepati 15. He next has Kalki 2898 AD, Butterfly and Thalaivar 170 in the pipeline. While, Rashmika has Animal’, Pushpa 2: The Rule in her kitty.

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on Nov 06, 2023 01:18 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).

  • TikTok’s Age Gap Couple Massimiliano & Cindy Camponovo Have an Age Difference Where if They Had Met Sooner They Would Be in Legal Trouble, Here’s How

    TikTok’s Age Gap Couple Massimiliano & Cindy Camponovo Have an Age Difference Where if They Had Met Sooner They Would Be in Legal Trouble, Here’s How

    TikTok’s popular couple, Massimiliano and Cindy Camponovo, have one of the most controversial age difference. According to Cindy, she met her husband-to-be while working for him, and the two grew close behind their employers’ backs. When Cindy Camponovo and her husband Massimiliano first met, he was her 38-year-old manager and she was a 26-year-old bartender. Despite their rather contentious 12-year age difference, the pair, who are now 38 and 50, have been happily married for eight years as of March and had their first child, daughter Penelope, who is now four.

    Independant.co.UK says that the couple’s videos on TikTok, which offer insights into what it’s like to be together despite a big age gap, have received 29 million likes. More than 51.9 million people have watched, and 8.1 million people have liked a recent video of Massimiliano and Penelope holding hands. Age Gap in a Relationship: What’s a Good Age Difference Between Couples? – Relationship Query of the Day.

    Cindy captioned the clip: “My husband said he wished he would have met me earlier in life. He said being a 50-year-old dad makes him sad sometimes. I said to him, if he met me sooner he would have been arrested.” Despite the fact that their relationship was permitted at work, the couple would sneak around and keep their romance a secret from everyone but their closest friends. And when the secret was revealed, Cindy originally worried about what people may think. Yet, the couple discovered that their coworkers encouraged their relationship. The couple’s unusual narrative, though now joyful and in love, had a contentious beginning because Massimiliano was her boss.

    Cindy said: “I find him so sexy and attractive. The age gap helped even more. Massimiliano was mature and knew what he wanted in life. He wanted a wife to build a family with – he was secure. Men my age during that time only cared about their independence and partying ways. I met him during a time of his life when he knew what he wanted in life. He wanted a wife, a family and to settle down. Our visions aligned with one another.”

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on Feb 21, 2023 10:47 AM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).

  • 28 Porn Stars to Face Legal Action for Filming XXX Content at a Travelodge Without Authorisation

    28 Porn Stars to Face Legal Action for Filming XXX Content at a Travelodge Without Authorisation

    After filming XXX pornographic material in a Travelodge, a group of 28 porn stars found themselves in a situation where they could face legal action. When the gang was supposedly kicked out of the home they had initially chosen, the Travelodge in Newcastle’s Cobalt Business Park was chosen as an alternative site for the scenes. The owner of the £10k property requested the group to leave for unspecified reasons, despite it having a pool and a hot tub. Pornhub Sued by 40 Sex Trafficking Victims of GirlsDoPorn For Profiting From Hosting Their XXX Videos Without Consent.

    When the XXX porn actors caught in the snow made the decision to reserve four double rooms and a family room at the Travelodge for a total of £43 per night. They then started posing for photos in the Travelodge’s elevators and hallways. Seven of the women were also seen posing in one photo on a single bed from the chain of low-cost hotels. GirlsDoPorn.com Trial Comes to an End; Verdict on the XXX Porn Website Scam to Come Soon.

    According to the BBC, in addition to snapping pictures, a XXX scene was also shot inside the Travelodge and is currently circulating online. The organisation is currently dealing with legal action due to the nature of their activity, as they recorded content without “authorization.” A person may be asked to leave the Travelodge if they ‘[perform] commercial activity or activity that seeks to gain profit without written consent,’ according to the terms and conditions on the hotel’s website. GirlsDoPorn.Com Finally Goes Offline! XXX Site Taken Down After Controversy of Duping Women Into Making Porn Videos.

    A spokesperson for the Travelodge told LADbible: “We have been made aware of an allegation that filming may have taken place in one of our hotels, without our authorisation and against the terms of our booking conditions. We were not aware of this reservation as it was made online, similar to the millions of bookings made via our website.”

    They further said: “We are currently conducting an investigation regarding this incident and we will have no hesitation in terminating any future bookings and taking legal action if we believe an individual is in breach of our terms and conditions.” Defending the group’s actions, one of the porn stars, Lacey Amour, 23, told The Sun: “We’re just trying to do our jobs.”

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on Jan 14, 2023 08:18 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).

  • Elon Musk Coming Up With New Social Meda Site X.com Amid Twitter Legal Feud?

    Washington, August 12: Amid his ongoing legal battle against Twitter, Tesla CEO Elon Musk teased a potential social media site of his own as a competitor for Twitter.

    While responding to a question from one of his followers, Musk dropped a cryptic tweet, hinting at a potential new social media platform ‘X.com’. 

    On Tuesday, a social media user asked the billionaire tech tycoon whether he had given any thought to creating his own social platform.

    Musk, who is quite active on Twitter, noticed the question and responded by just writing “X.com”. Qatar World Cup 2022: FIFA Confirms Change To Start Date of Showpiece Event.

    X.com used to be the domain name of a startup Musk founded two decades ago, which he later merged with financial services company PayPal.

    In fact, last week, Musk talked about the website during Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting last week as well.

    “I do sort of have a grander vision for what I thought X Corporation could have been back in the day. It’s a pretty grand vision and of course that could be started from scratch but I think Twitter would accelerate that by three to five years,” Musk had reportedly said.

    The tweet comes at a time when Musk is involved in a high-stakes legal battle with Twitter. ‘

    Twitter recently sued Musk after he decided to back out of the USD 44 billion takeover deal. In April, Musk reached an acquisition agreement with Twitter at USD 54.20 per share in a transaction valued at approximately USD 44 billion.

    However, Musk put the deal on hold in May to allow his team to review the veracity of Twitter’s claim that less than 5 per cent of accounts on the platform are bots or spam.

    Back in June, Musk had openly accused the microblogging website of breaching the merger agreement and threatened to walk away and call off the acquisition of the social media company for not providing the data he has requested on spam and fake accounts.

    Musk alleged that Twitter is “actively resisting and thwarting his information rights” as outlined by the deal, CNN reported, citing the letter he sent to Twitter’s head of legal, policy and trust, Vijaya Gadde.

    Musk demanded that Twitter turn over information about its testing methodologies to support its claims that bots and fake accounts constitute less than 5 per cent of the platform’s active user base, a figure the company has consistently stated for years in boilerplate public disclosures. (ANI)

    (This is an unedited and auto-generated story from Syndicated News feed, Morning Tidings Staff may not have modified or edited the content body)

  • Elon Musk Teases His Social Media Website ‘X.com’ Amid Legal Battle With Twitter

    New Delhi: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has teased the launch of a new social media website named X.com amid the legal battle with Twitter. X.com used to be the domain name of a startup Musk founded two decades back, which he later merged with financial services company PayPal. When asked has he thought about creating his own social platform if the Twitter deal doesn’t come through, Musk replied: “X.com.” Elon Musk Sells Tesla Shares Worth USD 6.88 Billion.

    After selling its electric vehicle company shares worth nearly $7 billion, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO said he would repurchase Tesla stock if the Twitter deal did not close. When asked by a user on the microblogging platform if he is done selling Tesla stock, the tech billionaire replied affirmatively.

    “Yes. In the (hopefully unlikely) event that Twitter forces this deal to close *and* some equity partners do not come through, it is important to avoid an emergency sale of Tesla stock,” Musk wrote on Twitter.

    Meanwhile, while replying to another user who asked “If the Twitter deal does not close, will you buy Tesla stock again,” Musk replied, “Yes.”

    As per a report, Musk sold 7.92 million company shares worth around $6.88 billion. Musk’s transactions occurred between August 5 and August 9, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings revealed, following Tesla’s 2022 annual shareholder meeting on August 4 in Austin, Texas. Musk and Twitter are locked in an intense legal battle over cancellation of the $44 billion takeover deal, and the five-process will start in a US court from October 17.

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on Aug 12, 2022 09:44 AM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).

  • Twitter Drags Elon Musk’s Billionaire Buddies Into Legal Battle Over Terminated USD 44 Billion Takeover Deal

    San Francisco, August 3: Twitter has now dragged tech investors and entrepreneur friends connected to Elon Musk in the $44 billion takeover deal that has been terminated by the Tesla CEO and a legal trial is set to begin from October 17.

    According to The Washington Post, Twitter’s legal team in a subpoena in the court has asked for “extensive requests for communications, including achecklists, timelines, presentations, decks, organisational calls, meetings, notes, recordings” related to the deal’s financing. Twitter vs Elon Musk: Legal Battle Over Cancellation of $44 Billion Takeover Deal To Start From October 17.

    The top investors mentioned in the subpoena are Marc Andreessen, founder of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z), former Facebook executive and CEO of Social Capital, Chamath Palihapitiya and David Sacks who helped Musk with the formation of financial services firm PayPal.

    Twitter’s legal team has also gone after Tesla and SpaceX board member Stephen Jurvetson, and investors Jason Calacanis, Keith Rabois and Joe Lonsdale. Lonsdale, general partner at VC firm 8VC, called Twitter’s subpoenas sent to a “giant harassing fishing expedition”.

    “Lawyers w/ TWTR are sending subpoenas to friends in the ecosystem around @elonmusk and @pmarca and @DavidSacks et al, a giant harassing fishing expedition,” he posted.

    “I have nothing to do with this aside from a few snarky comments, but got a ‘YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED’ document notice,” he added. Musk or his legal team were yet to react to the Twitter subpoena.

    The world’s richest person has filed a countersuit against Twitter as part of an ongoing legal dispute with the microblogging platform. However, the lawsuit is not yet accessible to the public and a partially redacted version may be available soon under court rules. The US judge in the Twitter vs Musk legal battle has set October 17 as the beginning date of the high-profile trial for five days.

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on Aug 03, 2022 02:54 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).

  • Tired of Fake Reviews, Amazon Turns to Legal Action

    Amazon recently filed a lawsuit against the administrators of over 10,000 groups on Facebook. These groups, according to Amazon, violate its terms of service by giving away products for free in exchange for a fake five-star review. The groups have thousands of members, all colluding together to inflate product rankings through fake reviews.

    According to a statement by Amazon, they will use information discovered in this legal action to identify bad actors and remove fake reviews commissioned by these fraudsters that haven’t already been detected by Amazon’s advanced technology, expert investigators, and continuous monitoring.

    “Our teams stop millions of suspicious reviews before they’re ever seen by customers, and this lawsuit goes a step further to uncover perpetrators operating on social media,” said Dharmesh Mehta, Amazon’s vice president of Selling Partner Services.

    The problem of fake reviews on Amazon is not new. In 2021, Amazon filed a similar lawsuit against two platforms – AppSally and Rebatest. These platforms allow third party sellers to list their products which need fake reviews. Users can sign up, browse products, purchase them and once they upload the review, they are refunded the entire cost of the product. Such manipulation of reviews is strictly against Amazon’s terms of service; sellers are not allowed to offer promotions in exchange for reviews.

    The groups flagged by Amazon in their lawsuit are just a drop in the ocean; brokering fake reviews on Facebook is a booming business. A study conducted by Rajvardhan Oak, a cyber security researcher and graduate student at the University of California, Davis shows that there are groups with hundreds of thousands of members that deal with fake reviews. Third party sellers contract intermediaries known as agents, who are responsible for procuring fake reviews from buyers. The study found that the reviews ecosystem was extremely sophisticated, with group admins using bonus and incentive structures to incentivize agents into seeking out more buyers.

    Oak’s research also found that sellers recommend certain evasion tactics so that the fake reviews will not be detected by Amazon.  While fake reviews have been around for decades, this study is the first (and the only one that we could find) that has actually investigated the key players in depth, and identified these evasion tactics. The study outlines several evasion tactics such as writing reviews which are long, including photos and videos, and interacting with other reviews so that Amazon does not suspect a buyer of writing fake reviews.

    “Detecting these fake reviews is really a hard problem. What makes it challenging is that these are fake reviews written by real people, who will often have legitimate purchases and reviews as well,” says Oak. Amazon takes the fake review problem seriously; they have deleted reviews, terminated relationships with sellers and banned users off their platform for engaging in review fraud. These measures are, however, not effective. Oak’s research studied review trends for fraudulent products over a six-week period, and found that if reviews are removed, sellers immediately onboard new fake reviews. He also found that Amazon was able to remove only 20 products (out of over 2,000) in the six-week period.

    The lawsuit and Oak’s study shows that we can no longer trust reviews. Platforms must do a better job of moderating reviews so that only genuine ones get through (which definitely is a challenging task). Till then, take all reviews with a grain of salt!

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on Jul 30, 2022 03:30 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).

  • Twitter vs Elon Musk: Tesla CEO Files Countersuit in Legal Battle Against the Microblogging Platform

    San Francisco, July 30: Tech billionaire Elon Musk has filed a countersuit against Twitter as part of an ongoing legal dispute with the microblogging platform over his abandoned $44 billion takeover deal. However, the lawsuit is not yet accessible to the public and a partially redacted version may be available soon under court rules.

    It was not clear why Musk asked the court to keep details of his countersuit confidential when the Tesla and SpaceX CEO had been vocally critical of Twitter on social media and in press interviews in recent months, reports CNBC. Twitter vs Elon Musk: Legal Battle Over Cancellation of $44 Billion Takeover Deal To Start From October 17.

    Recently, in a tweet to Musk, a follower wrote that under the SEC Rule 10b-5, Twitter “can be liable for omissions of or misleading material facts. Waiving due diligence does not mean you have to accept a fraudulent disclosure (understated bots)”.

    Musk replied: “Exactly.” The tech billionaire terminated the $44 Twitter takeover deal because he did not believe what CEO Parag Agrawal told him about the actual number of bots on the platform.

    When Musk threatened to scrap the $44 billion Twitter acquisition deal, the micro-blogging platform revealed that it is suspending more than 1 million spam accounts a day.

    Meanwhile, the US judge in the Twitter vs Musk legal battle has set October 17 as the beginning date of the high-profile trial. Judge Kathaleen McCormick in the Delaware Court of Chancery has issued an official schedule, with the high-profile trial starting from October 17-21.

    Twitter wanted the trial to begin on October 10, but Musk said he wants it to start a week later, stressing that the extra week of preparation time would be crucial.

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on Jul 30, 2022 01:01 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).

  • Twitter vs Elon Musk: Legal Battle Over Cancellation of $44 Billion Takeover Deal To Start From October 17

    San Francisco, July 29: The US judge in the Twitter vs Elon Musk legal battle over cancellation of the $44 billion takeover deal has set October 17 as the beginning date of the high-profile trial.

    Judge Kathaleen McCormick in the Delaware Court of Chancery has issued an official schedule, with the high-profile trial starting from October 17 till October 21. Twitter Reaches 238 Million Users Globally Amid Legal Battle With Elon Musk

    Twitter wanted the trial to begin on October 10, but Musk said he wants it to start a week later, stressing that the extra week of preperation time would be crucial.

    “The parties shall work together in good faith on the scheduling and location of depositions. The parties will not require a subpoena to produce for deposition, on reasonable notice, persons under their respective control, including their respective current directors, officers, employees, and experts and documents under the parties’ control in the possession of such persons,” the judge said in the case scheduling order.

    Earlier this week, Musk’s lawyers filed a letter to the Delaware Chancery Court, saying that Twitter was not playing nice in the pre-trial process and should be forced to do so.

    Musk’s lawyers claimed that Twitter was not producing the documents it needs even though they’re easy to produce.

    The Parag Agrawal-led microblogging platform had pushed for proceedings to commence as early as possible, arguing that the ongoing shenanigans are hurting the company and that things should be resolved as quickly as possible.

    Musk’s team asked for a much longer timeline, hoping to start the trial early next year.

    However, McCormick picked October and told the two sides to begin preparation.

    If Elon Musk’s legal team can prove that Twitter has misled its users from revealing the actual number of bots or spam accounts on its platform, than the company can be held liable for fraudulent disclosure in its filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

    The Tesla CEO terminated the $44 deal because he did not believe what Agrawal told him about the actual number of bots on the platform.

    The micro-blogging platform recently revealed that it is suspending more than 1 million spam accounts a day.

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on Jul 29, 2022 07:46 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).