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Andrew Deck and Masha BorakApril 6, 2022

Russian influencers scramble to maintain their followers — and livelihoods

Increasingly isolated, creators are moving to Russian platform alternatives like VK, Yandex Zen, and RuTube.

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 30, 2020

Two new studies show, again, that Facebook doesn’t censor conservatives

Meanwhile, Republican Sen. Mike Lee says fact-checking is a form of censorship, and Wikipedia explains how it plans to fight Election Day misinformation.

The Bloomberg Way appears to have gone astray when it killed an investigation into China’s richest man

Europe’s “right to be forgotten” doesn’t apply worldwide, a European court thankfully ruled

Andre ObolerApril 4, 2019

In Australia, a new law on livestreaming terror attacks doesn’t take into account how the internet actually works

It forces every part of the internet stack — platforms, hosting providers, ISPs — to remove violent video before they’re even made aware of it.

News is sometimes a casualty when Facebook and Twitter try to clean up their platforms

Rasmus Kleis NielsenMarch 15, 2018

Soft power — not government censorship — is the key to fighting disinformation and “fake news”

“For a soft power approach to disinformation to work, it is critical that all stakeholders do in fact work together…If it fails, cruder responses may be the only ones left. But let’s hope not.”

Shan WangMarch 9, 2018

What do Xi Jinping and Winnie the Pooh have in common? They’re both flagged by Chinese censors

They’re just a few of countless names, codewords, memes, and phrases that have been blocked. Weiboscope, a project out of the University of Hong Kong, since 2011 has tracked deleted posts on Weibo, collecting a substantial dataset of the types of terms and content that triggers censors.

Shan WangJuly 27, 2016

Paywalls and politics: Independent Russian television station TV Rain turns to subscriptions as its future

Shifting the focus to digital was hardly just a business decision, though: “Really, this was pretty much the only source that could help us go through.”

China’s government now demands news sites must “verify” news from social media before reporting it

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