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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp down in global outage
Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were hit by a massive outage Monday, impacting potentially tens of millions of users as ...China welcomes Huawei executive home, but silent on freed Canadians
Chinese state media welcomed telecoms giant Huawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, back to the “motherland” on Saturday, after more than 1,000 ...US and allies accuse China of global hacking spree
The United States and its allies accused China on Monday of a global cyberespionage campaign, mustering an unusually broad coalition of countries ...Trump Facebook ban remains but oversight board rips company policies
Facebook Inc’s oversight board on Wednesday upheld the company’s suspension of former U.S. President Donald Trump but said the company was wrong ...Australian parliament passes media reforms after last-ditch changes
Australia’s parliament passed a law on Thursday to make Alphabet Inc’s Google and Facebook Inc pay media companies for content on their ...Facebook ‘refriends’ Australia after changes to media laws
Facebook said on Tuesday it will restore Australian news pages after negotiating changes with the government to a proposed law that forces ...Misinformation fears after Facebook blacks out news in Australia
Facebook’s news blackout in Australia has raised fears misinformation could come to dominate the platform in the country, with fake news and ...China bans BBC World News in row over Xinjiang reporting
China’s broadcasting regulator has banned BBC World News, accusing it of flouting guidelines over a hard-hitting report on Beijing’s treatment of the ...Jeff Bezos steps down as Amazon CEO
Jeff Bezos said Tuesday he would give up his role as chief executive of Amazon later this year as the tech and ...YouTube suspends Trump’s channel for at least a week
YouTube has suspended U.S. President Donald Trump’s channel for at least a week amid concerns over “ongoing potential for violence,” making it ...