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Republican senator files to run for president in 2024, taking on Trump
Sen. Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican, filed to run for president of the United States on Friday, the Federal Election Commission’s website shows. Scott joins a growing list of Republican...
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Overseas Skype callers lose access to China
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. Microsoft said changes made by “local telecom operators” in China have blocked calls into the country on...
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Twitter hit with $250 million copyright infringement lawsuit from music...
A coalition of music publishers, including Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music and Sony Music Publishing, is suing Twitter over “massive copyright infringement” involving the...
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Republicans seek ban on members’ TikTok use
House and Senate Republicans are calling for an end to members’ use of the controversial TikTok video app for “official communications.” Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Rep. Daniel Crenshaw of...
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Soft propaganda? YouTube deletes channels promoting North Korean lifestyle
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. In a posh British accent, the 11-year-old Korean girl in school uniform smiled for the camera and complained...
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Vietnamese activist sentenced to 8 years in jail for Facebook posts
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. A court in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City on Friday sentenced war veteran and democracy activist Tran Van Bang to...
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Instagram live streamed a brutal murder-suicide in Bosnia. A war-weary nation...
This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. The sadistic nightmare was beamed across the Balkans and the world. Thousands of viewers on...
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Elon Musk says X will get rid of blocking
The block tool on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, will be removed, according to owner Elon Musk. “Block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs,” said Musk in a...
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Facebook deletes thousands of accounts, citing Chinese troll army ‘covert...
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. Facebook’s parent company Meta has deleted thousands of accounts with suspected links to the Chinese...
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China widens ban on iPhones among government officials
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. Chinese authorities have reportedly banned the use of foreign-made electronics including Apple’s iPhone for...
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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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