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The Supreme Court on Friday will take up TikTok's high-stakes challenge to a federal law that would effectively shut down the wildly popular video-sharing platform this month unless the company [...]

Byline: Mary Walrath-Holdridge USA TODAY As the new year dawns, many Americans are still processing 2024, which saw historical events like a contentious presidential election, a once-in-a-lifetime solar eclipse and [...]

The top political accounts on X have seen their audiences crumble in the months before the election, a signal of the platform's diminishing influence and usefulness to political discourse under [...]

Byline: Cristiano Lima-Strong Elon Musk's X suspended an independent journalist on Thursday for sharing an unverified dossier on vice-presidential candidate JD Vance containing his personal information, with the billionaire CEO [...]

Byline: Cristiano Lima-Strong X owner Elon Musk is the world's wealthiest flag-bearer for free speech, but under his leadership the social media platform is acceding to government requests to take [...]

Byline: Terrence McCoy RIO DE JANEIRO - For more than three weeks, a question has loomed over Brazil and much of the tech world: Who would back down first? Would [...]

Byline: Samantha Chery Thaís Garcia, 32, has accepted that she can no longer scroll through X in São Paulo, Brazil, but her fingers haven't quite gotten the memo. Out of [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Terrence McCoy, Trisha Thadani, Marina Dias RIO DE JANEIRO - A Brazilian supreme court justice on Friday ordered the suspension of X in Latin America's largest country, a dramatic [...]

Byline: Will Oremus Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) that the Biden administration in 2021 'repeatedly pressured' his company to [...]

Byline: DAVE SOMMER Vice-president for strategic communications with Enterprise Canada. He previously served as head of digital for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and as head of government and politics with [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that the Biden White House, top government health officials and the FBI likely violated the First Amendment [...]

Byline: GUS CARLSON U.S.-based columnist for The Globe and Mail. Call it Big Sky v. Big Spy. As Montana regulators and TikTok lawyers prepare to square off in court over [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Erica Werner Montana's legislature on Friday approved the nation's first complete ban on TikTok in a state, sending a bill to the governor that would prohibit sales of the [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]ASSOCIATED PRESS France announced Friday it is banning the 'recreational' use of TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and other apps on government employees' phones because of concern about insufficient data-security measures. [...]

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 [...]

Byline: LAURA STONE; Staff TORONTO -- The Ontario government is immediately banning social media platform TikTok on all government-issued devices and on the personal mobile devices of the Ontario Progressive [...]

Byline: Drew Harwell The Commerce Department would wield broad powers to ban or restrict TikTok and other technology apps rooted in foreign countries under a bill introduced Tuesday by a [...]

Byline: Meaghan Tobin and Lyric Li ChatGPT has made a splash in China, as it has all over the world. Scammers used it to issue fake traffic citations. Universities banned [...]

Byline: Tech Talk, Kim Komando Color me surprised that TikTok hasn't been banned in the U.S. yet. Can't stop using it? It's not just apps. More than a third of [...]

On June 2, 2023, the U.S. Government issued an interim rule that generally prohibits the presence or use of the social networking service TikTok or any successor application or service [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Will Oremus, Jennifer Hassan and Faiz Siddiqui New Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted Monday encouraging 'independent-minded voters' to vote Republican, marking a major departure for leaders of social media [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski Texas on Wednesday filed a petition calling on the Supreme Court to reject an emergency application seeking to block a state law regulating content moderation decisions at [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski Texas on Wednesday filed a petition calling on the Supreme Court to reject an emergency application seeking to block a state law regulating content moderation decisions at [...]

Byline: Pranshu Verma Over recent weeks, social media posts out of Shanghai have painted a dire picture of life under Chinese government lockdown. To mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, [...]

Byline: Will Oremus Last month, as many tech companies sided with Ukraine over Russia's invasion, TikTok appeared to follow suit by suspending new video uploads and live streams from Russia. [...]

Byline: Drew Harwell An international resistance of computer programmers and volunteer 'information warriors' is racing to pierce Kremlin propaganda and expose ordinary Russians to the uncensored truth of a brutal [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Dwoskin, Jeremy B. Merrill and Gerrit De Vynck In the first four days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, viewership of more than a dozen Russian state-backed propaganda channels [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski and Elizabeth Dwoskin Russia's Internet censor on Friday announced it plans to block access to Facebook, a dramatic step that will cut Russian citizens' access to information [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski and Elizabeth Dwoskin Russia's Internet censor on Friday announced it plans to block access to Facebook, a dramatic step that will cut Russian citizens' access to information [...]