Allie Funk, who leads the technology and democracy initiative at the nonprofit Freedom House, says many governments suppressed online speech and information while holding and/or preparing for ...

Nepal’s crackdown on social media companies, which led to protests and police killing at least 19 people, is part of a yearslong decline of internet freedoms around the world as even democracies seek ...

SINGAPORE — In the recent “sell or ban” controversy over ByteDance's social media platform TikTok, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted on X that “Communist China owning TikTok's algorithm is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three and a half years into its all-out war against Ukraine, the Kremlin is waging a parallel battle at home — this time against ...

In many countries, governments strictly regulate online content, limiting access to information and silencing voices. Amir Houmansadr, an associate professor of computer science at the University of ...

Freedom House’s latest assessment of Internet freedom highlights an upside-down trend among states in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Among those regional states deemed either “free” or “partly free,” ...

Declaring war against cable Internet Service Providers a year after launching its own broadband service, T-Mobile’s CEO Mike Sievert has proclaimed the “Un-Carrier’s” entry into the market as “every ...

FILE - This combination of photos shows logos of X, formerly known as Twitter, top left; Snapchat, top right; Facebook, bottom left; and TikTok, bottom right. (AP Photo, File) Nepal's crackdown on ...