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ShareChat and the mirage of microdramas
The homegrown social startup is betting big on India’s latest content obsession—minute-long episodes of high-stakes dramas. Cut through the noise and the microdrama hype itself doesn’t add up.
20 Apr 2026
The deceit of India’s TikTok clones
A lot of money was spent on building a home-grown social media success story. The only thing that got built was fundraising pitch decks.
16 Oct 2023
ShareChat is scaling down its fact-checking operations
The loss-making social media platform, which had tied up with third-party firms to fight misinformation during the 2019 general elections, has seemingly decided not to renew their contracts ahead of the upcoming polls.
29 Sept 2023
ShareChat and a prayer
Once a promising Indian social network, ShareChat lost its way, and is now hoping to make a comeback in the absence of ByteDance’s Helo and TikTok.
11 Aug 2020