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Suno Sabki Karo Apni (SSKA)

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The name of this web extension is the abbreviation for an age-old Hindi adage, Suno Sabki Karo Apni , or Listen to everyone but do your own.  This is a core fundamental principle of democracy: for people to have knowledge about all their choices and the right to complete control over their final decision. But it is said that Social Media is warping democracy by keeping users in a bubble and preventing them from seeing the holistic picture. SSKA is a way to reinforce democratic principles in the social media realm.  PSOSM and Team 5  A course called Privacy and Security in Online Social Media (PSOSM) was offered in Winter Semester 2021 in IIITD. People took this course either to learn to use social media APIs like Twitter API or to add a project to their resumes. PSOSM project constituted 45% of the total grade. The professor suggested project teams having 8-10 members each. Usually, teams consisted of 4-5 members and that could be managed well within friend circles. This ...