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Monday, the independent website Consortium News filed suit against the United States of America and Newsguard Technologies. The complaint targeting both the government and a private media ratings service is an important one, putting the censorship-by-proxy system on trial. On September 7, 2021, the U.S. Department of Defense gave an award of $749,387 to Newsguard …

As Russia attacks Ukraine, the authorities in Moscow are intensifying a censorship campaign at home by squeezing some of the world’s biggest tech companies. Last week, Russian authorities warned Google, Meta, Apple, Twitter, TikTok and others that they had until the end of this month to comply with a new law that requires them to …

Apple has removed two podcast apps from its Chinese app store, following government pressure to censor content. Pocket Casts and Castro were both pulled from distribution in China after the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) demanded that the apps stop allowing content that breached the country’s restrictive speech laws. “We believe podcasting is and should …

Donald Trump’s apparent plans to punish Twitter for appending a factcheck to his claims that mail-in ballots would be “substantially fraudulent” could reshape the web – but not necessarily in the ways he or his supporters intend. Trump’s expected avenue of attack focuses on section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. That law underpins much of how …

China revoked the press credentials of three Wall Street Journal reporters based in Beijing, the first time in the post-Mao era that the Chinese government has expelled multiple journalists from one international news organization at the same time. China’s Foreign Ministry said the move Wednesday was punishment for a recent opinion piece published by the …

You have 10 free articles left today, enjoy reading. Roughly 50 Greenpeace and Extinction Rebellion Quebec activists have occupied the offices of Minister of Canadian Heritage Steven Guilbeault in Montreal. The occupation began Friday afternoon to protest against oil sand projects in Alberta. “Mr. Guilbeault sits in the cabinet of ministers: he has a crucial …

TikTok has apologised for blocking a US teenager from the Chinese-owned video sharing platform after she posted videos highlighting Beijing’s treatment of Muslims in Xinjiang. A spokesman for the platform on Thursday blamed a “human moderation error” for the removal of a video by 17-year-old Feroza Aziz disguised as a makeup tutorial to avoid being …

(AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky) ASSOCIATED PRESS Russia’s new law providing for a so-called ‘sovereign internet’ came into force November 1, but questions remain over the purpose and practicality of the plan. Russia says that the legislation, which would permit the state to cut the country off from the internet, is needed for security reasons. It has …

It’s the wildly successful Chinese-owned video-sharing app that is taking on the likes of Snapchat and Instagram. Its users share short videos, 15 to 60 seconds long, usually set to music or film dialogue. But its success comes with worries that it is being used to advance Chinese foreign policy aims and even export censorship. …

Elton John took to Twitter on Friday to respond to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent interview with the Financial Times. In the interview, published on Thursday, Putin said Russia has “no problem with LGBT persons. … Let everyone be happy,” but John, 72, called Putin’s words hypocritical since a Russian distributor censored LGBTQ-related scenes from “Rocketman,” …