China announces new rules for online video and audio content to fight distribution of deepfakes
• 5 years agoIn particular, the CAC highlighted potential problems caused by deepfake technology, which uses AI to create hyper-realistic videos
Telegram reportedly hiding Hong Kong users' numbers to avoid being monitored
• 6 years agoTelegram will allow protesters to prevent mainland Chinese, Hong Kong authorities from discovering their identities.
Microsoft's Bing access restored to some users after outage in China
• 6 years agoShould Bing be blocked, it would mark Microsoft’s second setback in China since November 2017.
China deletes million pieces of online information, apps for spreading 'vulgar information'
• 6 years agoChina deletes more than 7 million pieces of online information, CAC shut down 733 websites
China asks domestic financial info providers to maintain 'economic order'
• 6 years agoViolators of the regulations will be “condemned publicly” and “ordered to rectify” their errors.
China erases 9,800 social media accounts for posting objectionable content
• 6 years agoChina’s censorship rules have tightened in recent years with legislations restricting media outlets.
China denies Google's plans for a censored version of its search engine
• 7 years agoChina denies the return of Google's search engine citing information from “relevant departments”.
China's Sina Weibo ordered to remove its portals for a week after they spread obscene content
• 7 years agoChina shut down as many as 128,000 websites that contained obscene and other “harmful” information in 2017, state media has reported.
Google denies reports of China 're-launch' of mapping platform, say 'no changes' have been made
• 7 years agoGoogle, stated that the Google Maps browser has been available in China for many years while there is no Maps application offered in the country.
Apple and Facebook praise China at an internet conference, despite western social media site bans in the country
• 7 years agoFacebook and Google aren’t accessible in China behind the country’s Great Firewall, along with major Western news outlets and social media sites.