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The tragedy got here as frustrations with zero-Covid insurance policies had been already beginning to spike. Violent confrontations had damaged out between employees and safety at a Foxconn plant in Zhengzhou that manufactures iPhones. …

It’s arduous to explain the sensation that got here after. It’s like everyone seems to be coming to you and every kind of knowledge from everywhere in the world is converging towards you and telling you: Hey, what’s taking place right…

Twitter isn’t Iran’s greatest social community—WhatsApp, Instagram, and Telegram are extra common—however as in lots of different international locations, it's used to share breaking information and real-time updates on occasions. It…

However these workarounds aren’t sufficient. Although the primary Starlink satellites have been smuggled into Iran, restoring the web will possible require a number of thousand extra. Sign tells MIT Know-how Evaluate that it has been…

Earlier than turning into Twitter’s CEO, proprietor, and “Chief Twit,” Elon Musk had usually lobbed criticism on the platform for its strategy to content material moderation, even going as far as to target the corporate’s former coverage…

Making a dwelling as a programmer additionally grew to become onerous, says a former Bilkan developer, who requested to stay nameless out of concern for his household’s security. In 2016, the federal government began requiring that web…

For the previous 5 weeks, 1000's of Iranians, led by brave younger girls, have taken to the streets of dozens of cities across the nation, pushed to motion by the case of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian girl who died whereas within…

Within the practically 27 years since Congress handed Part 230 of the Communications Decency Act, courts have broadly interpreted it to guard on-line communities for being legally chargeable for person content material, laying the…

When Chinese language-language misinformation seems on US platforms like YouTube or Fb, activists say it appears to get much less actively moderated than English content material, a sample that has additionally been documented for…

What many of the posts share is a way of desperation. As WeChat has grown to be the tremendous app that’s utilized in nearly all features of life, having your main account banned will be devastating. The Weibo posts describe how having…