Tech Roundup: India Social Media Law, Twitter Home Page Change & More

[A recurring feature on the latest in Science & Technology.]

• Twitter's new owner Elon Musk says the platform will form a content moderation council with "widely diverse viewpoints" for making major decisions about content and reinstating accounts; comes as the company is taken private and shuts down its Ticketed Spaces test indefinitely.
• India amends its IT law to set up a Grievance Appellate Committee with the veto power to reverse the content moderation decisions of social media companies.
• Popular messaging app Telegram shuts down its test of paid posts on iOS following a complaint from Apple over bypassing its 30% cut for in-app transactions through a third-party payment system; accuses the tech giant "abuses its market dominance at the expense of millions of users who are trying to monetize their own content."
• Meta moves to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to block its plans to acquire virtual reality (VR) content maker Within Unlimited over antitrust concerns; says "the FTC's conclusory, speculative, and contradictory allegations do not plausibly plead any facts to establish that any supposed market for VR Deliberate Fitness apps is 'oligopolistic' as to either behaviour or structure."
• Google to make available its enterprise version of Meet to all devices running Android in a bid to expand its reach to more meeting rooms and shared spaces; also announces interoperability with Zoom's Rooms system.
• Amazon and Google reach a deal to allow OEMs to release smart TVs with Fire TV software, while selling other devices with stock Android OS, officially loosening restrictions that prevent companies from selling devices running an forked version of Android.
• Twitter to introduce paid verification, requiring users to pay (i.e., subscribe to Twitter Blue) to remain verified on the service; rolls out new change where logged out users visiting Twitter.com are now redirected to the Explore page instead of showing only a sign-up form.