Is China silencing artists in Australia? | Censorship
In the first of a two-part investigation, 101 East asks: Is China silencing artists in Australia?In the past two decades, Chinese contemporary art has taken…
RFK Jr. blames ‘media censorship,’ plans to campaign for Trump
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced he is suspending his campaign for the presidency while in in Phoenix on Friday. Kennedy went on to endorse Republican…
Hell hath no fury like a librarian scorned in the book banning wars
Amanda Jones is a Louisiana middle-school librarian who sleeps with a shotgun under her bed and carries a pistol when she travels the back roads.…
LGBTQ+ books are facing an increase of censorship in UK schools, study finds
School librarians in the UK have opened up about the increased censorship regarding LGBTQIA+ books. Over the last couple of years, queer literature in the…
Turkey blocks Instagram after ‘censorship’ row | Social Media News
Top government official accused US-based company of blocking condolence posts on killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.Turkey has blocked access to Instagram, the national communications…
Russia starts US journalist Evan Gershkovich’s trial: What’s next for him? | Russia-Ukraine war News
Evan Gershkovich, an American journalist with the Wall Street Journal, appeared in a court in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on Wednesday, at the start…
Haaretz stories cast doubt on health of Israel’s ‘democracy’ | Censorship News
Israeli newspaper Haaretz has published two eyebrow-raising pieces in a row that cast doubts on Israel’s democratic norms. On Wednesday, it published an opinion piece…
Robe-wearing DJ NewJeansNim draws complaints from Singapore Buddhists | Music News
Singapore – A popular South Korean DJ ‘monk’, known for donning a cleric’s robes and combining electronic dance music with Buddhist mantras, is stirring controversy…
A year since Pakistan’s May 9 riots: A timeline of political upheaval | Imran Khan News
EXPLAINERNationwide riots on this ‘dark day’ last year triggered a months-long political crisis that saw ex-PM Imran Khan jailed, and a crackdown on his party.…
A Chinese flavour of rap music is flourishing as emerging musicians find their voices
In 2018, the censors who oversee Chinese media issued a directive to the nation's entertainment industry: Don't feature artists with tattoos and those who represent…
China trying to develop world ‘built on censorship and surveillance’ | Privacy News
China is exporting its model of digital authoritarianism abroad with the help of its far-reaching tech industry and massive infrastructure projects, offering a blueprint of…
‘Arrogant billionaire’: Australia, Musk in war of words over censorship | Social Media
Elon Musk and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese clash over order to remove X posts on church stabbing. Australia and Elon Musk have escalated their…
Pakistan says it blocked social media platform X over ‘national security’ | Social Media News
The platform remained inaccessible to users, but government officials refused to acknowledge any restrictions, until now. Pakistan blocked access to social media platform X around…
Meta’s oversight board urges Facebook, Instagram to lift ban on ‘shaheed’ | Censorship News
The oversight board of Meta, the social media giant which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has ruled that a ban on the use of the…
Censorship is a crucial complement of genocide | Israel War on Gaza
Last month on the BBC’s flagship news programme, Newsnight, author and journalist Howard Eric Jacobson complained that Britain’s public broadcaster had been showing too many…
Closed Cyberspace: Does Meta censor pro-Palestinian content? | Social Media
An Al Jazeera social media experiment tests whether some platforms discriminate against pro-Palestinian, Arabic content. Al Jazeera investigates how social media moderation and censorship policies…
US tech giants refuse to work with Britain’s top secret military censorship board – POLITICO
Over the past several years, its scope has grown to include cyber incidents — such as when an MoD supplier was hit by a ransomware…
X faces restrictions in Pakistan amid protests over alleged vote rigging | Censorship News
Islamabad, Pakistan: Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, continues to remain inaccessible to users in Pakistan after internet watchdog groups started to report…
Facebook at 20: From virtual community to censorship of reality | Social Media
When I joined Facebook in 2007, three years after the platform launched, I used it solely as a means of staying in touch with friends…
Hate crime tracker Hindutva Watch blocked in India ahead of national vote | Censorship News
New Delhi, India – The website of Hindutva Watch, a United States-based independent research project that documents hate crimes against religious minorities in India, is…