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...
View ArticleUS 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...
View ArticlePolice 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...
View ArticleChina 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...
View ArticleTikTok 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...
View ArticleTrump 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...
View ArticleTrump 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...
View ArticleTikTok 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...
View ArticleTikTok 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....
View ArticleFacebookers 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”...
View ArticleMeta 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...
View ArticleFacebook 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...
View ArticleAround 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)...
View ArticleTikTok 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...
View ArticleFacebook 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...
View ArticleVietnam fines TikTok user $1,200 for criticizing Ho Chi Minh’s personal life
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. Police in the Vietnamese city of Da Nang fined a resident 30 million dong (about US$1,200) for suggesting on...
View ArticleTikTok ‘refugees’ flock to China’s RedNote
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. More than half a million users have piled onto the Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu, also known as...
View ArticleChina discusses sale of TikTok US to Musk as one possible option
Chinese officials are evaluating a potential option that involves Elon Musk acquiring the U.S. operations of TikTok if the company fails to fend off a controversial ban on the short-video app,...
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