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Court rules Turkey violated freedoms by banning Wikipedia
Turkey’s highest court on Thursday ruled in favor of Wikipedia, saying the Turkish government's two-year ban on the online encyclopedia ... Digital -
TikTok accused in California lawsuit of sending user data to China
A California college student has accused popular video-sharing app TikTok in a class-action lawsuit of transferring private user data to servers in ... Digital -
China introduces mandatory face scans for phone users
China will require telecom operators to collect face scans when registering new phone users at offline outlets starting Sunday, according to the ... Digital -
Internet returns in 10 Iranian provinces after shutdown over protests
The internet in Iran has returned in 10 provinces, the official news agency IRNA reported on Saturday, after a five-day-long nationwide shutdown meant ... Middle East -
Turkey bans book for kids, says it should be treated as porn
Turkey has ruled that million-selling book “Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls” should be partially banned and treated like pornography ... Print -
Iran has no plans to lift its nine-year ban on Twitter
The Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Cyberspace Council Abulhassan Firouz Abadi said on Friday that there are no plans to remove the ban on ... Digital -
India court orders release of jailed journalist
A journalist jailed for making derogatory comments on social media against a chief minister with the ruling-right wing party was ordered released by ... Digital -
Australian police raid public broadcaster amid media crackdown
Australian police raided the headquarters of public broadcaster ABC on Wednesday, the second high-profile probe into news outlets in 24 hours, amid a ... Television & Radio -
CNN Turk criticized for cutting opposition mayor interview
CNN’s Turkish channel was criticized Tuesday after it cut short an interview with the opposition candidate for Istanbul mayor as he began to ... Television & Radio -
Iranian media say reformist magazine closed by authorities
Iranian media say the country’s authorities have shut down a reformist magazine that urged negotiations with the United States.Another reformist ... Print -
Mark Zuckerberg wants ‘more active’ govt role in regulating internet
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called Saturday for governments to play a “more active role” in regulating the internet, urging more ... Digital -
Russian MPs vote to punish media for ‘fake news’
Russian officials will be able to fine or block online media outlets for publishing news they deem “fake”, under a law approved by ... Digital -
Sudanese authorities release Al Arabiya correspondent after questioning
Sudan’s authorities released Al Arabiya and Al Hadath correspondent Saad el-Din Hassan after he was summoned for questioning following his ... Middle East -
US envoy on Iran’s hypocrisy: ‘Regime gets to be on Twitter, but not the people’
US ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell on Saturday tweeted his anger at the Iranian regime’s use of Twitter, while banning it for the Iranian ... Digital -
Algeria sentences journalist to year in jail over demo
An Algerian court on Tuesday sentenced a journalist to one year in jail for taking part in an illegal protest, his lawyer said. Adlene Mellah, who ... Digital -
Fifty Istanbul radio stations to close next year
Over one third of Istanbul’s radio stations are soon to fall silent, with the transition to a new radio tower set to seriously limit the ... Television & Radio -
Famous Turkish actor quizzed over ‘threats to Erdogan’
A famous Turkish actor testified to Istanbul prosecutors on Monday after authorities opened a probe into whether comments he made on television ... Entertainment -
Putin says rap should be controlled in Russia, not banned
Alarmed by the growing popularity of rap among Russian youth, President Vladimir Putin wants cultural leaders to devise a means of controlling, rather ... Variety -
Brazil judge blocks airing of documents in activist’s murder
A Brazilian judge has forbidden the country’s biggest TV channel from broadcasting the contents of investigative documents about the killing of ... Television & Radio -
Nazi-style stranglehold of the Iranian regime’s censorship and propaganda methods
All governments across the globe utilize some form of censorship, as the dangers of uncontrolled speech, which often comes in the form of violently ... Features -
Pompeo say US to broadcast in Farsi across several platforms
The US is stepping up its efforts to broadcast in Farsi across several platforms and channels, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced in a ... World News -
Sri Lanka president shuts TV network linked to prime minister
A television network owned by the family of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was suspended by the island’s telecom regulator ... Television & Radio -
Singapore wants comms blackout at terror attack sites
Singapore on Tuesday proposed a new law to prevent people at terror attack sites from taking photographs or videos or communicating about police ... Digital -
Lebanese mom of little girl in Myriam Klink raunchy video: ‘Don’t lecture me!’
Zeina Halabi, the mother of the child who appeared in Lebanese model Myriam Klink’s banned video clip, defended her daughter’s ... Entertainment -
China mulls new ways of imposing control on video websites
China restricts access to foreign websites including Google, Facebook and Twitter with a vast control network dubbed the Great Firewall of China Digital -
Mark Zuckerberg meets China’s propaganda chief
China has called for the creation of a global Internet "governance system" Digital -
Egyptian writer who ‘violated public decency:’ An open-and-shut case?
The lawsuit was filed by a reader who said he got “heart palpitations and an extreme feeling of sickness" Features -
Iran ‘plans to spend $36 mln on Internet smart filtering’
The move is meant to strengthen the country's Internet censorship capabilities in collaboration with local universities Technology -
Why controlling the media doesn’t ensure Egypt’s security
Western media have recently been full of reports expressing worries over deterioration of human rights situation Middle East -
Five reasons why we must NOT censor ISIS propaganda
This is a far cry from the days of Osama bin Laden filming himself speaking into a camera and sending it to the media Middle East