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Trench selfies: Tracking a Russian military unit by frontline social media...
This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. Earlier this spring, a Russian unit that trained at a Chechen military academy deployed to...
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Matchmaking app offers Uyghur brides for Han Chinese men
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. A company backed by local Chinese government bodies in far-western Xinjiang has created a matchmaking app...
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Gaming platform Roblox fails to protect child gamers from predators, sexual...
After Quisha Smith allowed her young daughter to open an account on the hugely popular Roblox gaming platform, she was surprised to see that when the girl went into a bathroom in a role-playing game,...
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Vietnamese man gets 8 years for Facebook posts
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. A Vietnamese court on Monday sentenced a man to eight years in prison for his Facebook posts in a trial with...
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London YouTuber hid in van, received death threats after piano face-off
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. YouTuber Brendan Kavanagh lived in a van for two days out of fear of violent repercussions following a...
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Tiktok video by 3 Uyghur women goes viral
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. Leveraging the #ofcourse challenge on social media, a short video by three young Uyghur women talking about...
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Facebooker arrested as Vietnam’s internet crackdown continues
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. Vietnam has again used a controversial section of its law to prosecute people for expressing their opinions...
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Air Force employee leaked classified secrets on dating app, feds say
A civilian Air Force employee shared classified information about Russia’s war in Ukraine with a woman he met on a foreign dating app, federal investigators said. David Slater, 63, worked at U.S....
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Cambodian teen rescued from family home in China after Facebook plea
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. Chinese authorities rescued a 16-year-old Cambodian girl who said she was tricked by job brokers, sold to a...
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House easily overcomes objections to pass TikTok bill
The House voted 352-65 to pass legislation that would force TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance to divest the company or lose access to more than 170 million U.S. users, easily overcoming opposition of...
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Apple reportedly removes Navalny’s voting app at Russia’s request
This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. Apple, at the direction of Russia’s media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, has removed an app...
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US bill targeting TikTok sparks mixed reactions in China
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. A U.S. bill that if approved would force the sale of the video sharing platform TikTok has sparked mixed...
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Police detain St. Petersburg developer for Facebook posts about Moscow attack
This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. A prominent St. Petersburg developer has been detained by police in connection with two...
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China steps up checks for people bypassing the ‘Great Firewall’
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. Police in China are stepping up spot searches of people’s phones for apps enabling them to bypass the Great...
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TikTok sues US government, saying ban violates 1st Amendment
TikTok, the popular social video app, sued the U.S. government on Tuesday, saying the country’s new law that could ban the app violates First Amendment rights to free speech. President Biden last...
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Trump joins TikTok to step up fight for young voters with Biden
Former President Donald Trump joined TikTok, the Chinese-owned platform he once tried to ban in the U.S., as the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee steps up efforts to reach young voters. Fresh from...
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Trump quickly surpasses Biden on TikTok with just one video
Former President Donald Trump posted his first video to TikTok on Saturday, and has already amassed more followers and likes than President Joe Biden’s campaign account as the two men vie for...
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TikTok child privacy case referred to Justice Department
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission referred a complaint against ByteDance Inc.’s TikTok to the Justice Department, setting up a potentially consequential government probe into the company’s handling of...
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TikTok argues US disregarded national security plans before ban
TikTok and its China-based parent company ByteDance Ltd. argued that the U.S. government could have enacted less restrictive alternatives to banning the app to address national security concerns....
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Facebookers fined, warned about posting information about Nguyen Phu Trong
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. Three Facebook users in Ho Chi Minh City were fined or warned by police not to disseminate “untrue news”...
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Meta agrees to $1.4B settlement with Texas over unauthorized scanning of...
Facebook parent company Meta has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit by the state of Texas over Facebook’s unauthorized use of biometric data from millions of Texans, the Attorney General’s...
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Facebook censoring more political content in Hong Kong
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. Facebook is censoring a growing number of posts at the request of authorities in Hong Kong, who have also...
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Around 1,500 WhatsApp accounts compromised in Pakistan since July
Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi informed the Senate on Tuesday that about 1,500 WhatsApp accounts have been hacked across the country since July 1, adding that the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)...
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TikTok deletes videos related to Uyghur human rights violations
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. Nefise Oguz, a Uyghur student at Istanbul University, uploaded a video to TikTok of a brief debate she had...
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Facebook parent Meta fired whistleblower after she criticized inflated, ‘out...
In late 2022, Facebook parent Meta saw ChatGPT go viral and went all in on developing its own version of generative artificial intelligence. But a whistleblower claims in a new lawsuit that after she...
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