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Russia Promotes Max Messenger App As WhatsApp, Telegram Face Bans
Russians are being urged to use Max Messenger in the name of "technological sovereignty".
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Chinese 'Sexual Intelligence' Guru Who Made Rs 31 Crore Teaching Women How To Attract Men Faces Probe
She became viral for teaching specific "seduction" methods, such as an "X-shaped" body stance and prolonged, intense eye contact.
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How China's Social Media Curbs Worsened Arunachal Woman's Airport Ordeal
Prema Wangjom Thongdok -- an Arunachal-born, Indian-origin UK resident-- has claimed that she was detained and harassed by Chinese officials at Shanghai airport for nearly 18 hours after they refused to acknowledge her Indian passport as "valid".
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Is Taliban's Social Media Ban Based on China Model? Here's The Inside Story
The Taliban plunged Afghanistan into a 48-hour internet blackout last week, and now access is restricted to several social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat.
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OpenAI Bans ChatGPT Accounts Linked to China-Backed Surveillance Efforts
OpenAI has banned several accounts, potentially linked to China, that attempted to use ChatGPT for mass surveillance, social media monitoring, and profiling. Some accounts also sought assistance in developing tools targeting Uyghurs and other sensitive topics. OpenAI confirmed no such tools were actually built, and accounts from Russia attempting p...
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"Rude" Chinese Customers Not Allowed At This Japan Restaurant, Row Erupts
Hayashin, a grill restaurant in Osaka, Japan, has caused controversy by banning Chinese customers.
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Woman, Once China's 'Most Beautiful Fugitive', Banned From Social Media
Qing Chenjingliang, 26, from Sichuan province, shot to national fame in 2018 when police released a wanted poster.
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TikTok Restores Service After US Ban, Thanks Incoming President Donald Trump
TikTok began restoring its services on Sunday after President-elect Donald Trump said he would revive the app's access in the US. TikTok’s public thanks to Trump, the day before he takes office, comes at a tense moment in US-China relations. Trump has said he intends to place tariffs on China but has also indicated he hopes to have more direct co...
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How TikTok Ban Would Work, Why User Workarounds Won't
Social media app TikTok, which is owned by China's ByteDance, will be banned in the United States on Sunday unless a deal comes together to sell it to a US investor or the US Supreme Court intervenes.
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"Pure Fiction": TikTok On Report Of Possible Sale Of US Operations To Elon Musk
TikTok has dismissed the report suggesting China might allow the potential sale of the social media company's US operations to billionaire Elon Musk and called it "pure fiction."
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Russia Promotes Max Messenger App As WhatsApp, Telegram Face Bans
Russians are being urged to use Max Messenger in the name of "technological sovereignty".
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Chinese 'Sexual Intelligence' Guru Who Made Rs 31 Crore Teaching Women How To Attract Men Faces Probe
She became viral for teaching specific "seduction" methods, such as an "X-shaped" body stance and prolonged, intense eye contact.
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How China's Social Media Curbs Worsened Arunachal Woman's Airport Ordeal
Prema Wangjom Thongdok -- an Arunachal-born, Indian-origin UK resident-- has claimed that she was detained and harassed by Chinese officials at Shanghai airport for nearly 18 hours after they refused to acknowledge her Indian passport as "valid".
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Is Taliban's Social Media Ban Based on China Model? Here's The Inside Story
The Taliban plunged Afghanistan into a 48-hour internet blackout last week, and now access is restricted to several social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat.
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OpenAI Bans ChatGPT Accounts Linked to China-Backed Surveillance Efforts
OpenAI has banned several accounts, potentially linked to China, that attempted to use ChatGPT for mass surveillance, social media monitoring, and profiling. Some accounts also sought assistance in developing tools targeting Uyghurs and other sensitive topics. OpenAI confirmed no such tools were actually built, and accounts from Russia attempting p...
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"Rude" Chinese Customers Not Allowed At This Japan Restaurant, Row Erupts
Hayashin, a grill restaurant in Osaka, Japan, has caused controversy by banning Chinese customers.
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Woman, Once China's 'Most Beautiful Fugitive', Banned From Social Media
Qing Chenjingliang, 26, from Sichuan province, shot to national fame in 2018 when police released a wanted poster.
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TikTok Restores Service After US Ban, Thanks Incoming President Donald Trump
TikTok began restoring its services on Sunday after President-elect Donald Trump said he would revive the app's access in the US. TikTok’s public thanks to Trump, the day before he takes office, comes at a tense moment in US-China relations. Trump has said he intends to place tariffs on China but has also indicated he hopes to have more direct co...
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How TikTok Ban Would Work, Why User Workarounds Won't
Social media app TikTok, which is owned by China's ByteDance, will be banned in the United States on Sunday unless a deal comes together to sell it to a US investor or the US Supreme Court intervenes.
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"Pure Fiction": TikTok On Report Of Possible Sale Of US Operations To Elon Musk
TikTok has dismissed the report suggesting China might allow the potential sale of the social media company's US operations to billionaire Elon Musk and called it "pure fiction."
