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Douyin, Chinese Version of TikTok, Limits Kids to 40 Minutes a Day

Minors in China are now only allowed to use Douyin — the original, mainland Chinese version of video site TikTok — between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.
Chinese tech firms like TikTok, Huawei, and Tencent have increased their lobbying budgets.

UK Vaccine Passport App Sends Biometric Facial Recognition Data to Private Company, Shares With Law Enforcement

The vaccine passport app used by the United Kingdom’s public health system is using a private company to collect and process biometric facial recognition data, and the National Health Service
Theatre goers queue to scan their contact tracing app on July 21, 2021 in London, England. The NHS App vaccine passport uses iProov, a private company, to collect biometric facial recognition data for account verification. The NHS provides iProov with government identification data to complete the match. This information can also be queried by law enforcement.
In Unprecedented Clampdown, 7 Chinese Power Users Banned From Wikipedia as Information War Rages
Instagram Use Is Harming the Mental Health of Young Girls, and Facebook Knows It: Report
Teenagers take photos for their Instagram account on September 28, 2020 in Kershon, Ukraine. An expose by the Wall Street Journal revealed parent company Facebook is well aware of the harm the app inflicts on a large portion of its 22 million daily teenage users from its own internal surveys and focus groups.
In Historic First SpaceX to Launch Four Civilians Into Space
Chinese Botnet Tried to Mobilize Social Media Users to Protest Anti-Asian Hate: Report
People participate in an anti-Asian violence protest on April 4, 2021 in New York City. Security operations group FireEye found a Chinese Communist Party-sponsored botnet had not only expanded its influence operations into other languages and fringe social media and websites, but attempted to mobilize real world users to attend an April 24 anti-Asian hate protest in New York City.
China Opens Its First Plant That Turns Nuclear Waste Into Glass
Biden Allows Sale of American Auto Chips to Blacklisted Huawei
Washington approved the sale of auto chips to Huawei due to pressure from U.S. companies, says Global Times.
Academic Censored and Deplatformed by Facebook for Discussing Totalitarianism
Nicholas O’Shaughnessy, a visiting professor at two London University colleges, has been permanently banned from Facebook.  On June 26, O’Shaughnessy received an email from the social media platform with the message, “Your account has been...
Antitrust Lawsuit: Court Sides With Facebook Over FTC
A federal court in Washington D.C. has dismissed two antitrust cases filed against social media platform Facebook by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a coalition of state attorneys general led by New York Democrat...
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Court Rules Against Facebook, Sex Trafficking Lawsuits Can Move Forward
Decision opens path to holding social media giant accountable On Friday, June 25, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that Facebook is not a “lawless no-man’s-land” and can be held liable for sex traffickers who utilize...
Cryptocurrency Markets Buckle After China Cracks Down Further on Bitcoin Mining, Crypto Trading
China’s central bank urged banks and payment firms on Monday to crack down further on cryptocurrency trading and mining in China, sending the cryptocurrency market into a tailspin and resulting in the loss of billions...
Facebook's vice president Nick Clegg holds a speech at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin on June 24, 2019. Minutes of a meeting between Clegg and European Commission Vice President Vera Jourova from November of 2020 show the Facebook executive admitting fact checkers employed by the giant have their own political agenda.
Facebook VP Concedes ‘Fact Checkers’ Have Own Agenda
According to minutes of a meeting between Facebook VP Nick Clegg and a European Commission executive, the Facebook executive acknowledged that the monolith’s censors and "fact checkers," may be biased and chasing their own political...
The logo of Russia's state-owned bank Sberbank (reading "Sber") is seen on one of its offices in central Moscow on April 12, 2021. Cyber Polygon 2021 will simulate a “Digital Pandemic” supply chain attack in a collaboration between the World Economic Forum, Interpol, ICANN, Visa, and others
‘Digital Pandemic’ Preparation: Supply Chain Attack Simulation To Be Conducted Between World Economic Forum and Russian State-Owned Bank
An upcoming cyberattack defense simulation being hosted by the globalist and Chinese Communist Party-aligned World Economic Forum (WEF) in connection with Russia’s government-controlled Sberbank and its subsidiary BI.ZONE, a cybersecurity firm, has some speculating the...
The Quantum Internet Is Emerging; What Is It and What Can We Expect?
In July 2020, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) and then Under Secretary for Science, Paul Dabbar, announced America’s Blueprint for the Quantum Internet detailing how the US is tackling this emerging technology that promises...
On the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square incident, Microsoft Bing failed to show image results when users searched for “Tank Man.”
Microsoft Bing Accused of Censoring Anti-CCP Content on Tiananmen Anniversary, Planning Tool to Remove Online Anonymity
The Microsoft Bing search engine has been accused of censoring “Tank Man” pictures in its search results, one of the most iconic images from the Tiananmen Square Massacre. The alleged censorship coincides with reports that...
EU Commissioner of Competition Margrethe Vestager gave a joint press on Antitrust: Google online search advertising at the EU headquarters in Brussels on March 20, 2019, after Google was slapped with a fine over unfair competition. This month, Google was forced to change its marketing practices after French authorities called out foul play.
French Regulator Fines Google Nearly $270 Million for Unfair Advertising Practices
Google was fined 220 million Euros (268 million US dollars) on Monday, June 7 by France’s Competition Authority (Autorite de la concurrence) for unfair online advertising practices. The head of the administrative authority, Isabelle de...