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October 31st 2023

WeChat Deemed a Security Risk in Canada, Banned on Government Devices

Canadian officials’ phones are restricted from using WeChat and TikTok due to the considerable data the apps scrape from user devices.

Privacy & Security Maxwell Zeff Oct 31

September 21st 2023

TikTok Fixes Missing ‘Filter Video Keywords’ Safety Setting

The social media giant corrected a glitch identified by Gizmodo as affecting hundreds of users.

Tech News Thomas Germain Sep 21

August 3rd 2023

Elon Really Wants to Turn Twitter Into Wall Street

The billionaire Twitter/X owner is ignoring Robinhood and eToro as he signals his plan to create a ‘trading hub’ inside the microblogging app.

Social Media Kyle Barr Aug 3

May 30th 2023

China Removes 1.4 Million Posts and 67,000 Accounts in Latest Social Media Purge

The Cyberspace Administration of China says the removals came after a two-month investigation into misinformation and impersonation spreading on the platforms.

Politics Mack DeGeurin May 30

April 11th 2023

Twitter Is Dead: It’s All ‘X Corp’ Now

Court filings detail that Twitter, Inc. no longer exists, and that it's been subsumed by X Corp, Elon Musk's long-talked up 'everything app.'

Social Media Kyle Barr Apr 11

April 10th 2023

Apple Allegedly Allowed Fake Baidu AI Apps in the App Store

Baidu is going after Apple for allegedly allowing free knockoffs of the former's ChatGPT competitor Ernie into the tightly controlled App Store.

Artificial Intelligence Nikki Main Apr 10

March 20th 2023

If You Are a Russian Diplomat, You Should Be Using a Flip Phone

Staff working on Vladimir Putin’s 2024 presidential campaign were told to ditch smartphones over fears of Western intelligence agency interference.

Tech News Mack DeGeurin Mar 20

May 24th 2022

Airbnb Pulling Out of China Thanks to Stiff Competition From Super-Apps

LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Urban Outfitters have all left China recently.

Tech News Matt Novak May 24

May 4th 2022

Shanghai Lockdown Spurs NFTs to Avoid Government Censorship

Residents are turning to the blockchain amidst growing frustrations under covid-19 lockdowns.

Tech News Passant Rabie May 4

July 6th 2021

China’s Tencent Says It’ll Use Face Recognition to Keep Minors From Gaming at Night

“This is such desperate news for us high school graduates who are two months away from being 18,” one WeChat user reportedly wrote.

Gadgets Tom McKay Jul 6

June 10th 2021

Chinese Authorities Arrest Over 1,100 People in Crypto Crime Crackdown

The arrests come amid a greater call to take on financial crimes nationwide.

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky Jun 10

June 9th 2021

Biden Order Declares TikTok Not Quite a Threat to National Security, Yet

The White House order overturns several EOs from the Trump administration.

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Jun 9

March 16th 2021

Encrypted Messaging App Signal Goes Down in China

Signal, the popular encrypted messaging app, stopped working in China on Tuesday, according to multiple reports. The app is still available in the Apple App Store in China, according to Reuters, but it’s not clear how much longer that might last. The Chinese government has not made any announcement about Signal being blocked or banned…

Tech News Matt Novak Mar 16

February 12th 2021

Good Lord, It’s Only February

It’s called bipartisanship: Both major political parties have some bad ideas for reforming Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the foundational internet law that shields websites from lawsuits over user-generated content or their moderation decisions. Democrats in the Senate have introduced the “SAFE TECH Act,” which would expose website operators to greater legal liability…

Internet Tom McKay Feb 12

October 16th 2020

Twitter Screws the Pooch, QAnon Bans, and FCC Takes the Bait

It’s hard to believe that the 2020 election is just 18 days away, which may count for the inexorable sense of doom hanging over everything, or the sensation of that time is warping like the event horizon of a black hole. Before we’re smashed into an accretion disk, you might as well catch up on…

Internet Tom McKay Oct 16

October 15th 2020

WeChat Likely Won’t Be Banned While Court Battle Proceeds, Judge Indicates

A federal judge in San Francisco indicated that the Department of Justice still doesn’t have jack shit to convince her to allow the Trump administration to move forward with a ban on new downloads of Chinese messaging app WeChat while court battles proceed, per the Verge. In the past few months, the White House has…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Oct 15

September 20th 2020

Turns Out WeChat Won’t Be Banned Immediately, Either

What is banned is never really banned, it seems. A judge in California has prevented the Trump administration from blocking WeChat, which the Commerce Department planned to ban from U.S. app stores, on the very day it was supposed to be banned. Judge Laurel Beeler of the District Court for the Northern District of California…

Tech News Jody Serrano Sep 20

September 18th 2020

Trump’s WeChat and TikTok App Store Bans Are a Cybersecurity Nightmare

The Trump administration has barely even bothered to back up its case that its use of emergency powers to strong-arm Beijing-based ByteDance into selling TikTok’s U.S. operations to an American company is based on cybersecurity concerns. It’s actually setting the stage for a meltdown of its own making. While the White House officially cited cybersecurity…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay & Dell Cameron Sep 18

Trump Regime Orders U.S. App Stores to Ban TikTok and WeChat by Sunday

The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday that social media platforms TikTok and WeChat will be banned from distribution in the U.S. starting Sunday, Sept. 20. But there’s one important caveat, according to the Commerce Department press release. TikTok has until Nov. 12 for the so-called “national security concerns posed by TikTok to be resolved.”…

Tech News Matt Novak Sep 18

September 17th 2020

DoJ Still Not Sure Why It’s Mad at WeChat

In what’s the latest update to the Trump Administration’s… questionable plans for getting China-based apps off of U.S. soil, Justice Officials are now clarifying that any future crackdown on WeChat won’t explicitly target people who only download the chat platform for… chatting. This update comes courtesy of court docs filed late yesterday responding to a…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky Sep 17

WeChat

WeChat Deemed a Security Risk in Canada, Banned on Government Devices

TikTok Fixes Missing ‘Filter Video Keywords’ Safety Setting

Elon Really Wants to Turn Twitter Into Wall Street

China Removes 1.4 Million Posts and 67,000 Accounts in Latest Social Media Purge

Twitter Is Dead: It’s All ‘X Corp’ Now

Apple Allegedly Allowed Fake Baidu AI Apps in the App Store

If You Are a Russian Diplomat, You Should Be Using a Flip Phone

Airbnb Pulling Out of China Thanks to Stiff Competition From Super-Apps

Shanghai Lockdown Spurs NFTs to Avoid Government Censorship

China’s Tencent Says It’ll Use Face Recognition to Keep Minors From Gaming at Night

Chinese Authorities Arrest Over 1,100 People in Crypto Crime Crackdown

Biden Order Declares TikTok Not Quite a Threat to National Security, Yet

Encrypted Messaging App Signal Goes Down in China

Good Lord, It’s Only February

Twitter Screws the Pooch, QAnon Bans, and FCC Takes the Bait

WeChat Likely Won’t Be Banned While Court Battle Proceeds, Judge Indicates

Turns Out WeChat Won’t Be Banned Immediately, Either

Trump’s WeChat and TikTok App Store Bans Are a Cybersecurity Nightmare

Trump Regime Orders U.S. App Stores to Ban TikTok and WeChat by Sunday

DoJ Still Not Sure Why It’s Mad at WeChat

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