Charlie Kirk’s assassination has prompted many to speak out on social media, including an assistant dean of MTSU. Administrators fired Laura Sosh-Lightsy after she posted what the school called “inappropriate and callous comments” about the conservative activist’s death. The employee stated online: “Hate begets hate. ZERO sympathy.” Her post faced backlash and even caught the…
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 to curtail online speech. The Himalayan country’s government said last week it was blocking several social media platforms including Facebook, X and…
HONG KONG — A lawyer for prominent Hong Kong democracy activist and newspaper founder Jimmy Lai argued Wednesday that it was not wrong to support freedom of expression, as he made final arguments in Lai’s landmark sedition trial. Barrister Robert Pang was representing Lai in his fight against charges of colluding with foreign forces to…
London – Hong Kong democracy activist Tony Chung, who once called for the city’s independence and was the youngest person to be jailed under its national security law, has been granted asylum in the U.K. Chung, 24, posted a letter from the U.K. interior ministry on his Instagram page on Sunday, which read, “Your claim…
Recent national polling indicated that nearly half of American voters would consider supporting a third political party—unless it is founded by Elon Musk, where interest dropped sharply, according to a Quinnipiac University survey conducted in July 2025. In the poll, 49 percent of registered voters said they would be open to joining an alternative to…
New York, July 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cyabra Strategy Ltd. (“Cyabra”), the AI-powered platform for real-time disinformation detection, has uncovered a coordinated Iranian state-backed bot network designed to infiltrate and influence online discourse around Scottish independence. Active between May and June 2025, the campaign aimed to manipulate UK political sentiment, promote Iranian-aligned narratives, and…
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — China’s ambassador to Manila was summoned after Beijing imposed sanctions on a former Filipino senator who has been critical of China’s aggressive actions in the disputed South China Sea, Philippine officials said Tuesday. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said last week that it was indefinitely prohibiting former Philippine senator Francis…
Elon Musk announced the formation of his new political party a day after conducting a poll on his social media platform, X. But this isn’t the first time Musk has outsourced his decision-making to social media. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has conducted several polls on X over the years. Musk has asked users whether…
HONG KONG (AP) — It’s been years since mass arrests all but silenced pro-democracy activism in Hong Kong. But a crackdown on dissent in the semiautonomous Chinese city is still expanding, hitting restaurants, bookstores and other small businesses. Leticia Wong, former pro-democracy district councillor, arranges books at her bookstore in Hong Kong, Friday, June 20,…
Monday marks five years since China imposed a draconian national security law on Hong Kong, criminalizing dissent and bringing the semi-autonomous city to heel after months of pro-democracy, anti-government demonstrations that drew as many as 2 million protesters into the streets. “The law itself was a weapon for Beijing to silence dissent in Hong Kong,…