Users say they are seeing fewer livestreams, and some activity is being removed or flagged at higher rates for violating community guidelines, including for behavior that was previously permitted.

In a historic development, Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok has become the center of a bipartisan bill to ban the app nationwide in the name of national security. Xiao Qiang, a research scientist at the UC Berkeley School of Information and a prominent scholar in the study of state censorship,

Another post from the account Dustin Genereux said that, "Censorship on TikTok is at an all time high with accounts being deleted, posts going back years being flagged, people losing access to the ...

Users looking for a TikTok alternative learn about daily life in China, but some posts are taboo.

As self-described " TikTok refugees" pour onto the Chinese social media app RedNote, also known as Xiaohongshu, some foreign netizens are already running up against the country's extensive censorship apparatus. Newsweek reached out to Xiaohongshu with a request for comment via a general contact email address.

And that left users speculating that the censorship of Trump-specific terms was tied to the app and the president’s new closeness. On TikTok, one user posted a video of the “no results found ...

"I cannot profess the kind of certainty I would like to have about the arguments and record before us," writes Justice Gorsuch.

U.S. TikTok users who once saw the app as a haven for free speech say they see signs of censorship after the platform, which is owned by China’s ByteDance, was returned by an executive order ...

Despite claims of temporary instability, TikTok faces backlash over possible shifts in policies and censorship following revived operations. Get Wall Street's Hottest Chart Every Morning Following ...

In an action without any direct precedent in the United States, the American government forced the temporary shutdown of a major social media network on Saturday for 14 hours, setting a precedent for future violations of First Amendment rights.

An Australian woman has been left shocked and angry after the CEO of a local business asked her inappropriate questions during the hiring process.

Two readers react to counterarguments on the US TikTok ban from Senator Edward J. Markey and Representative Jake Auchincloss.