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Twitter sees jump in govt demands to remove content of reporters, news outlets

Sheila Dang and Elizabeth Culliford, Reuters
Posted at Jul 15 01:57 AM

 Twitter Inc saw a surge in government demands worldwide in 2020 to take down content posted by journalists and news outlets, according to data released by the social media platform. Read more »

ABS-CBN franchise issue meant to send message to critical media, academics say

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 10 05:34 PM

Ang nangyayari ngayon d’yan, parang sinasadyang patahimikin despite the Constitution,” Prof. Luis Teodoro says.  Read more »

Trump announces anti-censorship lawsuit vs Facebook, Twitter, Google

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 08 01:10 AM

The class-action lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter and Google, escalates his years-long free speech battle with tech giants who he argues have wrongfully censored him.   Read more »

Hong Kong police arrest Apple Daily lead editorial writer: reports

Kyodo News
Posted at Jun 28 06:32 PM

Hong Kong police arrested a lead editorial writer of the now-closed pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily on Sunday night for allegedly violating the national security law, local media reported Monday. Read more »

Curtain falls on Hong Kong tabloid that dared to challenge China

Jerome Taylor, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 23 06:26 PM

Hong Kong's Apple Daily newspaper became the city's most popular tabloid by punching up against a particularly powerful entity that brooks little criticism: China's communist leadership. Read more »

Hong Kong's Apple Daily could shutter in days: report

Kyodo News
Posted at Jun 21 06:21 PM

Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily could be forced to shut within days as the Hong Kong government has frozen its assets under a sweeping national security law, Reuters news agency reported Monday. Read more »

Apple Daily ups daily circulation over fivefold after execs' arrests

Kyodo News
Posted at Jun 18 06:14 PM

Hong Kong's pro-democracy Apple Daily produced 500,000 copies of its newspaper on Friday, more than five times its normal daily circulation, the publication said, a day after five of its editors and executives were arrested for allegedly violating the national security law. Read more »

Apple Daily: The Hong Kong tabloid that dared to challenge China

Yan Zhao and Su Xinqi, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 17 07:22 PM

It has now been declared a threat to national security and its future is deeply uncertain. Read more »

Nigeria orders broadcasters to delete 'unpatriotic' Twitter

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 07 10:51 PM

Nigeria has directed all TV and radio stations to "suspend the patronage of Twitter immediately," describing its use as unpatriotic, the country's National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) said Monday. Read more »

China blocks shopping app after post on Tiananmen anniversary

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 07 08:07 PM

A Chinese shopping app has been blocked on social media after a post on the anniversary of the deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989, as Beijing's censorship kicked into gear around the sensitive date. Read more »

Palestinians denounce 'censorship' of social networks

Aziz El Massassi and Shatha Yaish, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 12 08:06 PM

With accounts deleted on Twitter and content blocked on Instagram, Palestinian social media users say they have been censored from showing the reality of the unrest in Jerusalem. Read more »

Russia extends punitive Twitter slowdown until mid-May

Reuters
Posted at Apr 05 07:43 PM

MOSCOW - Russia said on Monday it would extend a punitive slowdown of Twitter until May 15 though it acknowledged the US social media company had speeded up deletion of banned content. Read more »

LinkedIn China suspends new sign-ups to 'respect law'

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 11 12:08 AM

Microsoft-owned social network LinkedIn has halted new member sign-ups for its service in China while it reviews its compliance with local laws, the company said in a statement. Read more »

Russia slows Twitter's speed over failure to remove banned content

Reuters
Posted at Mar 10 04:42 PM

Russia's state communications watchdog said on Wednesday it was restricting the use of Twitter by slowing down its speed, accusing the social media platform of repeatedly failing to remove banned content from its site. Read more »

China raps Britain's BBC World News for producing 'fake news'

Kyodo News
Posted at Feb 18 09:30 PM

China on Thursday lambasted Britain's BBC World News for having produced "fake news" with strong ideological prejudice against the Asian country, days after its regulators barred the channel from airing in the mainland. Read more »

China users say no longer able to access Clubhouse app, raise 'Great Firewall' fears

Brenda Goh, Reuters
Posted at Feb 08 09:24 PM

Mainland China users of the US audio app Clubhouse said on Monday they were experiencing internet access disruptions, stoking concerns that the popular app has been blocked by China's so-called Great Firewall. Read more »

Google 'experiment' blocks Australian news from local searches

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 14 04:44 PM

The Australian Financial Review reported that Google was blocking several major commercial news outlets including its masthead, News Corp papers and Guardian Australia from a small number of search users.   Read more »

Trump throttled press freedom, journalists say

Reuters
Posted at Jan 13 11:02 PM

CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Maria Ressa, who heads a Philippine news website known for its scrutiny of President Rodrigo Duterte, and Sonny Swe, CEO of Frontier Myanmar, told a Reuters Next panel that press freedom had deteriorated sharply. Read more »

Censorship umano ng Facebook, pinaiimbestigahan sa Senado

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 02 05:55 PM

Sa isang resolusyon sa Senado, hiniling ni Sen. Ronald Dela Rosa na imbestigahan ang censorship ng social media giant para masiguro na hindi nalalabag ang kalayaan sa pananalita o freedom of speech sa Pilipinas. Read more »

Bato wants probe of Facebook takedown of accounts linked to cops, soldiers

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 02 10:38 AM

Sen. Ronald Dela Rosa has filed a resolution urging the Senate to investigate the removal of some pro-government and anti-communist pages on Facebook, saying the move may be violating Filipinos' right to free speech. Read more »