After Twitter and Facebook kicked President Trump off their platforms, and his supporters began comparing his social media muzzling to Chinese censorship, the president won support from an unexpected source: […]
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Back to news homeFacebook and Twitter Face International Scrutiny After Trump Ban
LONDON — In Sri Lanka and Myanmar, Facebook kept up posts that it had been warned contributed to violence. In India, activists have urged the company to combat posts by […]
How Parler, a Chosen App of Trump Fans, Became a Test of Free Speech
Parler grew slowly until early 2020, when Twitter began labeling Mr. Trump’s tweets as inaccurate and some of his supporters joined Parler in protest. After November’s election, Parler grew even […]
A Year After Wuhan, China Tells a Tale of Triumph (and No Mistakes)
At a museum in Wuhan, China, a sprawling exhibition paints a stirring tale of how the city’s sacrifices in a brutal 76-day lockdown led to triumph over the coronavirus and, […]
Twitter’s Ban on Trump Shows Where Power Now Lies
It was a perfect match, and Mr. Trump soon began honing the freewheeling, stream-of-consciousness style that would become his signature. For years, he used the platform to weigh in on […]
Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler, an App That Drew Trump Supporters
Other platforms that host posts by right-wing influencers, including CloutHub and MyMilitia — a forum for militia groups — adjusted their terms of service recently to ban threats of violence.DLive […]
How China Censored Covid-19
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 felt they […]
A Muslim-Hindu Kiss Puts Netflix India in the Crosshairs
NEW DELHI — On television, Lata and Kabir are clandestine lovers thwarted by faith and history. She is Hindu and he a Muslim in India in the early 1950s, in […]
Chinese Reporters in the U.S. Left Uncertain by Political Spat
Yuhui Chai came to the United States from China more than a dozen years ago, drawn by the country’s vibrant democratic values. She eventually found work as a journalist, relishing […]