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  • Monday, 6 February, 2023
    Disney cuts ‘Simpsons’ episode with China labour camp reference in Hong Kong

    Missing programme on streaming platform mentions ‘camps where children make smartphones’

  • Saturday, 24 December, 2022
    News in-depthHong Kong politics
    Hong Kong’s filmmakers stifled by tight political script

    Directors say territory’s once-acclaimed movie industry is under threat from Beijing’s crackdown

  • Sunday, 20 November, 2022
    Growing list of books targeted in America’s school culture wars

    Politicians and parent groups step up hunt for publications they claim are inappropriate for children

  • Friday, 14 October, 2022
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    China’s internet scrubbed of rare protest against ‘dictator’ Xi

    Banners hung from bridge call for leader’s removal ahead of Communist party congress

  • Wednesday, 12 October, 2022
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    Twitter reviews policies around permanent user bans

    Social media platform unlikely to reverse decision to block former US president Donald Trump

  • Tuesday, 23 August, 2022
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    Russia’s Yandex sells media businesses to VK

    State-controlled social media giant will take over tech group’s news aggregator, blogging platform and homepage

  • Monday, 15 August, 2022
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    Author who spent years in hiding because of fatwa is in critical condition but able to speak

  • Saturday, 13 August, 2022
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    Author Salman Rushdie stabbed at event in New York state

    Suspect charged with attempted murder and assault of writer who spent years in hiding because of Iranian fatwa

  • Sunday, 10 July, 2022
    Vietnam
    Vietnam lures Hollywood crews but censorship hangs over film sector

    One-party state’s Cinema Law bans ‘reactionary ideas and social evils’

  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    Turkish politics
    Turkey bans access to US and German public broadcasters

    Block on Deutsche Welle and Voice of America websites risks fuelling tension between Ankara and the west

  • Tuesday, 31 May, 2022
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    US Supreme Court blocks Texas social media ‘censorship’ law

    Tech companies and Republican-led states have clashed over moderation limits and misinformation

  • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
    News in-depthBlockchain
    Defiant Chinese netizens skirt lockdown censorship using blockchain

    Growing popularity of decentralised ledger technology presents fresh challenge for country’s censors

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Chinese society
    Chinese social media groups reveal nationalist influencers blogging from abroad

    Proposal to reveal locations exposes patriotic commentators and stokes outrage among users

  • Tuesday, 15 March, 2022
    British publishers censor books for western readers to appease China

    References to Taiwan, Hong Kong and other subjects deemed sensitive by Beijing are excised

  • Monday, 14 March, 2022
    Chinese politics & policy
    Hong Kong threatens British campaigner with national security law

    Head of UK-based group ordered to take down website or face possible prison sentence

  • Friday, 11 March, 2022
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    China’s tech platforms become propaganda tools in Putin’s war

    Response to Ukraine invasion poses ESG problems for foreign investors in country’s social media companies

  • Friday, 4 March, 2022
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    Russia bans Facebook and restricts Twitter as it tightens grip on information

    Moscow cracks down on western social media in country following invasion of Ukraine

  • Sunday, 27 February, 2022
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    Kremlin propaganda machine struggles to conceal Putin’s Ukraine war

    Moscow spin-doctors and officials try to frame the war in Russian president’s terms

  • Wednesday, 23 February, 2022
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    Turkey set to ban German and US public broadcasters

    Deutsche Welle and Voice of America say they will not comply with attempt at ‘censorship’

  • Saturday, 19 February, 2022
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    Graphic novel is latest to fall foul of authorities but history shows such action spurs sales

  • Tuesday, 15 February, 2022
    Technology sector
    China video site Bilibili to add 1,000 censors after worker dies

    Content monitoring team to be increased 40% amid debate on overwork

  • Monday, 3 January, 2022
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    Hong Kong free press faces collapse as second news site announces closure

    Citizen News says decision triggered by arrest of journalists at Stand News

  • Monday, 29 November, 2021
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    Streaming service drops episode satirising China’s censorship of 1989 massacre

  • Thursday, 30 September, 2021
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    Hong Kong’s ‘loyal critic’ faces tough test as Beijing targets media

    Media mogul Yu Pun-hoi treads carefully between mollifying China and hanging on to readers

  • Friday, 6 August, 2021
    Meta Platforms
    Facebook censured by US trade commission for suspending researchers’ accounts

    FTC rebuke follows block on NYU academics studying political advertising targeting practices

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