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US will remove Xiaomi from blacklist, reversing Trump decision
The US Defense Department will remove China’s Xiaomi Corp from a government blacklist, a court filing showed, marking a reversal by the Biden-Harris White House of one of Pre...
Activism: Twitter shuts down accounts for attempting to evade Trump ban
Twitter Inc suspended several accounts this week that were set up to share statements from a new part of President Donald Trump’s website, saying they broke its rules against...
Facebook confronts human rights dilemma on political speech
The Facebook oversight board’s extension of President Donald Trump’s banishment from the social network failed to settle how it will balance political leaders’ fr...
Facebook has six months to determine if Trump returns
Facebook’s oversight board upheld the company’s suspension of former US President Trump but said the company was wrong to make the suspension indefinite and gave it six...
Twitter hears from record respondents over world leader rules
Twitter has received a record number of responses to a survey on how it should handle world leaders, a spokeswoman said, an issue in the spotlight ahead of the possible return of f...
TikTok names ByteDance CFO Shouzi Chew as new CEO
TikTok appointed Shouzi Chew, a Singaporean national, as the new Chief Executive Officer of the hot video-sharing platform, the company has said.
Twitter breaks tech’s blockbuster streak, shares fall on tepid outlook
Twitter Inc shares sank 9% in post-market trading yesterday as it offered tepid revenue guidance for the second quarter, warned of rising costs and expenses and said user growth co...
US China hawks seek to cut sales of chip-making tools to Beijing
Congressional China hawks are urging the Biden-Harris administration to restrict sales of chip-making tools to Chinese companies, similar to an action taken against telecommunicati...
US adds Chinese supercomputing entities to economic blacklist
The US Commerce Department has announced that it is adding seven Chinese supercomputing entities to a US economic blacklist for assisting Chinese military efforts.
Twitch will ban users for ‘severe misconduct’ that occurs away from the platform
Twitch will ban users for offenses such as hate-group membership or credible threats of mass violence that occur entirely away from the site, in a new approach to moderating the pl...
Supreme Court brings end to Trump Twitter fight
The US Supreme Court brought an end to a legal fight over former President Trump’s effort to block critics from following his now-frozen Twitter account, deciding the dispute...
ByteDance says India’s freeze on bank accounts is harassment
ByteDance has told an Indian court that a government freeze on its bank accounts in a probe of possible tax evasion amounts to harassment and was done illegally, according to a fil...
Facebook may have to disclose some app records in privacy probe
Massachusetts’ top court reversed an order requiring Facebook to turn over to state Attorney General Maura Healey records identifying apps suspected of misusing customer data...
US broadband industry accused in ‘fake’ net neutrality comments
The broadband industry in 2017 funded a campaign that generated millions of fake comments to create the impression of grassroots opposition to net neutrality rules while the US Fed...