“You can’t X a post but you can tweet it,” point noted. The internet, never one to shy away from a good meme, has thrown Elon Musk a curveball in the ongoing Twitter rebranding saga. It seems the Twiterrati are still not happy with “X.” While some hail it as a stroke of genius, others …
All traces of WhatsApp – the world’s most popular messaging app, with more than 2 billion monthly active users in 2023 – and Threads, which has soared in popularity on the mainland since its launch last July, are now gone from the domestic App Store, according to a search by the Post on Friday. Chinese …
Politics exclusive By Steven Nelson Published April 9, 2024, 3:59 p.m. ET WASHINGTON — House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan invited three former Biden White House officials to appear at a May 1 public hearing to discuss their pressure on companies to censor online content — as the Supreme Court considers whether the administration violated …
By KELLY TSHIBAKA In the ‘80s and ‘90s, movies like the Terminator series, space-age technology, and the dot com boom gave rise to some science fiction technophobe speculation – robots will take over someday, artificial intelligence will determine that mankind is irrelevant and eliminate it, and sentient technology will replace humans as our leaders. Most Americans …
BEIJING: China has intensified efforts to block software that enables internet users to access banned websites during a top political meeting this week, a leading provider of firewall-leaping software told AFP.Beijing operates some of the world’s most extensive censorship over the internet, with web users in mainland China unable to access everything from Google to …
The power of the internet to bring like-minded people together is one of the most wonderful and frightening things about it. For over a decade, internet users have harnessed the power of mass communication online to build movements, expose wrongdoing and share important information; they have also targeted groups and individuals for harassment, circulated illicit …
When the Egyptian government shut down the internet in 2011 to give itself cover to crush a popular protest movement, it was Nora Younis who got the word out. Younis, then a journalist with daily newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm, found a working internet connection at the InterContinental Cairo Semiramis Hotel that overlooked Tahrir Square, the heart …
The top US diplomat in Hong Kong sounded the alarm over growing internet censorship in the city, underscoring fears China’s crackdown on freedoms is diminishing the hub’s appeal as a global finance hub. In his first interview since taking up the post in 2022, US Consul General Gregory May cautioned that connectivity issues and data …
News By Lydia Moynihan Published Feb. 6, 2024, 6:00 a.m. ET The New York Post’s story on Hunter Biden’s laptop was banned on Twitter. vmodica Twitter’s censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 could soon be possible on an industrial scale — thanks to AI tools being built with funding from his father’s …
Sri Lanka’s parliament overwhelmingly voted to pass a controversial internet regulatory bill that has been highly criticized as a move to stifle freedom of speech in the South Asian country gearing up for presidential election amid an economic crisis By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI The Associated Press January 24, 2024, 11:15 AM ET • 3 min read …