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The social network began to go dark in the nation of 200 million, the result of an escalating fight between Elon Musk and a Brazilian judge over what can be [...]

The small Himalayan nation's cabinet of ministers said the Chinese-owned app had neglected its repeated requests to curb content that affected ''social harmony.'' The government in Nepal said on Monday [...]

The small Himalayan nation's cabinet of ministers said the Chinese-owned app had neglected its repeated requests to curb content that affected ''social harmony.'' The government in Nepal said on Monday [...]

The bill, which would make the state the first to ban the social media app, now goes to the desk of Gov. Greg Gianforte. The Montana House of Representatives on [...]

Banning TikTok won't keep us safe. As you may have heard, the United States government is in the midst of a full-on panic about TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app best [...]

The move reflects fears in Britain and elsewhere in the West that the popular app's Chinese ownership could share user information with Beijing. Britain on Thursday became the latest Western [...]

What's Up? (Dec. 11-17) Criminal Charges for Sam Bankman-Fried Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was expected to appear before the House Committee on Financial Services [...]

The brief bans, which came after Elon Musk had suggested the journalists were violating Twitter's rules on personal privacy, had alarmed free-speech advocates. Elon Musk said early Saturday that Twitter [...]

The Russian leader is undoing the social freedoms introduced at the end of the Soviet Union, risking a return to total control and ideological isolation. One of the paradoxical things [...]

Many Ukrainians are encountering a confounding and frustrating backlash from family members in Russia who have bought into the official Kremlin messaging. LVIV, Ukraine -- Four days after Russia began [...]

Google, Apple and others were warned that they must comply with a new law, which would make them more vulnerable to the Kremlin's censorship demands. As Russia attacks Ukraine, the [...]

Online posts by users showing off their receipts, over-ordering food or scattering money have been deemed vulgar. Regulators say such content leads young people astray. He started by exploring the [...]

In 2019, Julie Sweet, the newly appointed chief executive of the global consulting firm Accenture, held a meeting with top managers. She had a question: Should Accenture get out of [...]

We learned last week that Facebook had disabled our Facebook accounts and our access to data that we have been using to study how misinformation spreads on the company's platform. [...]

When Facebook and Twitter barred Donald J. Trump from their platforms after the Capitol riot in January, he lost direct access to his most powerful megaphones. On Friday, Facebook said [...]

The decision denies the former president a megaphone at least through the midterm elections. The suspension was put in place after the Capitol riot in January. SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook [...]

Internet companies are making it harder for those with big followings to spread misinformation. Finally! This article is part of the On Tech newsletter . You can sign up here [...]

Good morning and happy Mother's Day. (Hi, mom!) Here's the news you need to know for the week ahead in business and tech. -- Charlotte Cowles What's Up? (May 2-8) [...]

AVIATION Southwest Airlines Orders100 More 737 Max Planes Southwest Airlines is doubling down on Boeing's troubled 737 Max jet, adding 100 new orders for the plane just months after regulators [...]

Officials said the social network had failed to block objectionable political content, a sign of the sacrifices it must make to remain in the vast but difficult market. LinkedIn has [...]

Keep the ban of the former president in place. If you are a public official, there's no more effective or efficient place to lie than on Facebook. It's company policy [...]

Section 230 isn't expected to be revoked, but even the more modest proposals for weakening it could have effects that ripple across the internet. WASHINGTON -- Former President Donald J. [...]

The video platform became the latest American internet giant to take down the military's content since the coup last month. YouTube said on Friday that it had cut five television [...]

The social network had prohibited political ads on its site indefinitely after the November election. Such ads have been criticized for spreading misinformation. SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook said on Wednesday [...]

The move puts the social network squarely on the side of Myanmar's pro-democracy movement after years of criticism over how the military has used the site. Facebook said on Wednesday [...]

China's censors finally blocked Clubhouse, but not before users were able to bypass the caricatures painted by government-controlled media and freely discuss their hopes and fears. For years, the Chinese [...]

The ability of a handful of people to control our public discourse has never been more obvious. In the end, two billionaires from California did what legions of politicians, prosecutors [...]

The president's preferred megaphone cited ''the risk of further incitement of violence.'' It acted after Facebook, Snapchat, Twitch and other platforms placed limits on him. OAKLAND, Calif. -- Twitter said [...]

This article is copublished with ProPublica , the nonprofit investigative newsroom. In the early hours of Feb. 7, China's powerful internet censors experienced an unfamiliar and deeply unsettling sensation. They [...]

Employees and executives are battling over how to reduce misinformation and hate speech without hurting the company's bottom line. SAN FRANCISCO -- In the tense days after the presidential election, [...]

Conservatives have raised questions about public decency on the Chinese-owned service, but opposition groups see an efforts to stop criticism of the country's leadership. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan has become [...]

Trump administration officials have said the Chinese-owned app presents a security risk to American users. SAN FRANCISCO -- The federal government on Thursday appealed a judge's ruling that prevented the [...]

The Philippine leader, who harnessed the social network as he rose to power, is now making vague threats to shut it down. MANILA -- President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines [...]

The social network said it was moving proactively to dismantle infrastructure Russia could use against the American presidential election. WASHINGTON -- Facebook announced on Thursday that it was taking down [...]

After a warning from the government, the company restricted access to a Facebook group critical of the Thai monarchy. But it said it would challenge the order. BANGKOK -- Facebook [...]

The social network said the fake accounts were active around the 2016 presidential election. Facebook on Wednesday said it was removing the personal accounts of Roger J. Stone Jr., President [...]

The action appeared to be the first outright suspension of one of the president's social media accounts. Twitch, the livestreaming platform, said on Monday that it was suspending President Trump's [...]

The influential pro-Trump community broke the rules on harassment and targeting, said Reddit, which also banned other groups. SAN FRANCISCO -- Reddit, one of the largest social networking and message [...]

An effort to pressure Facebook to crack down on hate speech and misinformation has prompted dozens of advertisers to say they'll stop spending on the platform. Here are some of [...]

Posts about voting will direct viewers to accurate information, and violations from important political figures will be marked ''newsworthy.'' SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook rolled out measures on Friday to add [...]

The battle is the latest skirmish between internet companies and governments over who decides what content should be online. MUMBAI, India -- When Pakistan's government unveiled some of the world's [...]

While stopping short of an outright ban, the social media company plans to label or take down material that appears to have been digitally manipulated. Twitter, bowing to pressure from [...]

SHANGHAI -- Three days before the most sensitive political anniversary on the Chinese calendar, Twitter suspended the accounts of Chinese political commentators in what it said was an accident. The [...]

HONG KONG -- The Twitter accounts of a Japanese mascot whose naughty antics charmed the internet and drew praise from the comedian John Oliver were abruptly suspended this week. Fans [...]

SHANGHAI -- One man spent 15 days in a detention center. The police threatened another's family. A third was chained to a chair for eight hours of interrogation.Their offense: posting [...]

This column is going to be a bit unusual. Typically, I write about a broad tech problem and offer some solutions. But this week, I've stumbled into a topic that [...]

BERLIN -- Security is tight at this brick building on the western edge of Berlin. Inside, a sign warns: ''Everybody without a badge is a potential spy!'' Spread over five [...]

MOSCOW -- A demonstration in Moscow against the Russian government's effort to block the messaging app Telegram quickly morphed on Monday into a protest against President Vladimir V. Putin, with [...]

SHANGHAI -- Within its digital borders, China has long censored what its people read and say online. Now, it is increasingly going beyond its own online realms to police what [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- As Twitter has tried to draw bright lines between what is acceptable and not acceptable on its platform, it has stumbled over them itself. The company was [...]