The EU's foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell called agreeing to Chinese censorship on the origins of coronavirus "misguided". Nevertheless, he said diplomacy works like that in China.

WeChat, the Chinese messaging app, is systematically monitoring the content sent by international users to build up its censorship algorithms applied against accounts registered in China, a new study has found.Researchers at Citizen Lab, an academic research lab at the University of Toronto, determined that WeChat screens images and documents shared by accounts registered outside China after they are sent, then adds the digital signature – or “hash” – of any files deemed sensitive to a…

President Trump's reelection campaign trashed Facebook's new oversight board in a statement alleging anti-Trump bias by the social media platform.

Earlier this week, Facebook revealed the first 20 members of its new oversight board, which has responsibility for content enforcement and governance on its platforms. The board includes Pamela Karlan, ...

Exclusive: report criticising government lockdown proposals heavily redacted before release

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Government scientific advisers are furious at what they see as an attempt to censor their advice on government proposals during the Covid-19 lockdown by heavily redacting an official report before it was released to the public, the Guardian can reveal.

The report was one of a series of documents published by the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (Sage) this week to mollify growing criticism about the lack of transparency over the advice given to ministers responding to the coronavirus.

The version published in China Daily omitted a reference to the illness originating in China and spreading to the rest of the world. The piece was published in full on the authors' websites.

WeChat is one of the world’s most popular apps, but researchers at the University of Toronto caution it is surveilling international users and using their information to broaden censorship on the app in China.

Chinese internet giant Tencent has been surveilling content posted by foreign users on its wildly popular messaging service WeChat in order to help it refine censorship on its platform at home, according to a new report.

Sivakarthikeyan has been given 'U' certificate by the regional Censor Board. Thus paving way for its release on 27 September.

Beijing edits European opinion piece published in Chinese state-controlled media

Research finds WeChat analyses messages from users registered outside China to train its algorithms

During an interview at Tuesday's NTAs on Tuesday, the screen star, 41, insisted singing the rendition of The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl's tune  'felt appropriate'.

The brief sign of same-sex romance in The Rise of Skywalker is a first for the franchise, but is omitted in Singapore where the law prohibits sex between men and is 'silent' on sex between women.

Madonna has furiously accused the London Palladium of trying to 'censor' her by pulling the curtain down after she ran over her curfew on Wednesday.

Channel Nine bosses will have their finger on the bleep button as the new series of M-rated reality show Married At First Sight is bumped to an earlier time slot

Tarantino will make no changes to the film for China after that country abruptly blocked its release scheduled for October 25, a source close to the situation told the Hollywood Reporter .

In a letter sent to newspaper editors on Sunday night, Prince Harry and Meghan state they will no longer respond to enquiries from British tabloids as they adopt a 'zero engagement' policy.

MICK HUME: The great danger is that Ofcom's powers to police the internet will not actually make us or our children safer, but will instead give rise to censorship.

PETER HITCHENS: I enjoy being banned, or demonstrated against, by intolerant students. In some ways, I wish it happened to me more often.

One deleted article about the situation in Wuhan (pictured) that caused particular outcry was typed out again and re-posted by dozens of social media users in 10 languages to test out censorship levels.

The European Union has excised reference in a public letter that the coronavirus pandemic originated in China, after receiving pressure to do so from the Chinese foreign ministry.

The nearly hour-long video, which was taken down on Monday, features Drs. Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi, who run a private urgent-care clinic in Bakersfield, California.

WeChat is monitoring messages sent by international users to help identify content that might need to be preemptively censored in China and maintain a database of blacklisted content.

In the shrill discourse over freedom of speech, the selective publication, and even overt suppression, of actionable development data is often overlooked. Amid calls for a next-gen data revolution, Biraj Swain highlights this and other challenges that lie in its path.

न‍िर्देशक रामानंद सागर की 'रामायण' (Ramayana) का दूरदर्शन (Doordarshan) पर टेलीकास्‍ट हुए पूरे 33 साल हो चुके हैं और इन दिनों ये सीरियल एक बार फिर से टीवी पर प्रसारित हो रहा है. हाल ही में इस शो की पूरी कास्‍ट कपिल शर्मा (Kapil Sharma) के कॉमेडी शो पर पहुंचीं.

China’s cyber laws are rather broadly defined. Incidentally, Tencent’s privacy policy documents for China and the rest of the world, does not indicate that non-China accounts will be under surveillance.

WeChat developer Tencent, however, downplayed the report saying all content shared among international users is private and not used surveillance purposes.

It appears inevitable that censorship is coming to social media. The political head of steam behind the idea is such that it’s going to happen. Oh, sure, it will be voluntary codes of conduct, fights against fake news, but it will amount to much the same thing – it will be possible to say some things on Facebook, Twitter and the like, and not others.

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