The toll that Twitter’s glitches are taking on Chinese activists
As the Elon Musk-owned social media service encounters interruptions and bugs, Chinese dissidents and activists said they feared they were being muzzled.
Twitter bots promoting escorts and gambling drowned out protests in China
When Chinese citizens took to the streets last month to protest stringent COVID-19 policies, people documented their actions in thousands of videos, photos and firsthand...
An alternate reality: How Russia’s state TV spins the Ukraine war
Leaked emails detail how Russia’s biggest state broadcaster mined right-wing U.S. news and Chinese media to craft a narrative that Moscow was winning.
Inside the face-off between Russia and a small internet access firm
The cat-and-mouse experience of Proton, a Swiss company, shows what it’s like to be targeted by Russian censors — and what it takes to fight...
‘They are watching’: Inside Russia’s vast surveillance state VIEW
A critical facet of Putin’s surveillance and censorship system finds and tracks opponents, squashes dissent and suppresses independent information even in the country’s furthest reaches.
TikTok browser can track users’ keystrokes, according to new research
The web browser used in the TikTok app allows the company to track every character typed by users. That's raising privacy concerns.
Chinese police database hack could expose 1 billion citizens’ information
For about $200,000, an unidentified person or group is offering data on a billion Chinese citizens. A sampling seemed to show the data to be...