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Filipino journalist and peace prize laureate says sites are biased against facts and in need of overhaulSocial media platforms are biased against facts and creating “a virus of lies” that threatens all democracies, the Nobel peace prize-winning journal…
Read MoreMisleading images shared on social media after mosques vandalised and homes ransacked in Tripura statePolice in India are seeking the owners of about 100 social media accounts accused of sharing “fake news” after mob attacks on mosques in the north-eas…
Read MoreCountry steps up its campaign to block use of unofficial digital moneyChina’s central bank has intensified its clampdown on cryptocurrencies by making all transactions in the virtual assets illegal, triggering a drop in the price of bitcoin on Friday….
Read MorePopulists and nationalists are spreading anti-Muslim, anti-feminist messages – but also backing the Communist party lineIn the early days of the 2016 US election campaign, Fang Kecheng, a former journalist at the liberal-leaning Chinese newspaper South…
Read MoreA report into how many times the ABC mentioned News Corp or Murdoch had some embarrassing flaws. Plus: campaign to release Myanmar fixerThe Australian newspaper often gleefully reports the work of the rightwing thinktank the Institute of Public Affairs…
Read MoreBritish foreign secretary says Beijing will be held to account if it does not stop ‘systematic cyber sabotage’Britain has joined with the US and other allies in formally accusing Chinese state-based hacking groups of being behind the exploitation of an…
Read MoreBritain has joined the US and other allies in formally accusing China of being behind the cyber-attackIn March, tens of thousands of organisations around the world discovered their private internal discussions had been cracked open and lain bare by a g…
Read MoreTech firm, which just launched its IPO in New York, is latest online giant to be targeted by Chinese authoritiesChina’s internet regulator has launched an investigation into one of the country’s biggest ride-hailing services, Didi, two days after the c…
Read MoreNews follows disclosure of competition case brought by small traders against US tech giant and family-run Indian joint venture CloudtailA joint venture between Rishi Sunak’s billionaire in-laws and the internet retailing giant Amazon is in a multimilli…
Read MoreInquiry will include company’s £1bn-a-year joint venture with Rishi Sunak’s father-in-lawThe Indian competition commission is to relaunch an investigation into Amazon’s selling practices, which will examine the company’s £1bn-a-year joint venture with …
Read MoreQiu Ziming imprisoned under 2018 law outlawing the defamation of ‘heroes and martyrs’A Chinese court has jailed a popular blogger over posts suggesting the death toll among Chinese soldiers in a China-Indian border clash last year was higher than claim…
Read MoreLawmakers and rights activists say removals risk people’s health and harms freedom of speechThe removal of dozens of tweets seen to be critical of the Indian government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic is putting people’s health at risk and quash…
Read MorePublic encouraged to report internet users who cast doubt on party’s version of history ahead of its 100th anniversaryChina’s cyber regulator has launched a hotline to report online criticism of the ruling Communist party and its history, vowing to cra…
Read MoreFans of star, a professional wrestler, decry court fine of £59 as ‘too lenient’ punishment for cyberbullyA Japanese man who sent hateful online messages to a professional wrestler who later killed herself has been charged but is not to face trial.Polic…
Read MoreEverything from online news to social media and streaming platforms are captured by the regulations, branded ‘palpably illegal’ by opponentsNot long before he was elected as India’s prime minister in 2014, Narendra Modi spoke of his dreams of a “digita…
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