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Australia has decided to examine the risks posed by social media applications, including WeChat and TikTok, to the nation’s democracy and security. Liberal Senator James Paterson, the Shadow Minister for ...

Sunny Cheung Kwan-yang, an advisor to the Hong Kong Democracy Council (HKDC), living in exile in the United ...

Australia’s home affairs minister has ordered cybersecurity authorities to investigate social media giant TikTok’s data collection security. Clare ...

A poem about cicadas turns out to be politically sensitive, and the author was forced to apologize. According ...

A Chinese netizen claims that there is a police version of WeChat, a messaging app that’s widely used ...

Cybersecurity firm Internet 2.0 claims the rapidly deteriorating legal status of Hong Kong has undermined any claims by ...

A recent analysis by Shanghai-based Metrodata Tech said during the month of April, 200 million people in China ...

SHANGHAI—The Chinese social media accounts of an outspoken Hong Kong-based market strategist were suspended after a series of ...

WeChat, China’s Twitter-like social media app, announced on April 6 that it has embraced digital Chinese yuan in ...

Home Affairs officials have said there is no evidence supporting claims that Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s WeChat ...

News Analysis Australia’s conservative prime minister, Scott Morrison, got a shock when China’s WeChat social media app gave ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s WeChat profile has been “sold” to a Chinese businessperson following revelations the Australian leader’s ...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s official WeChat account has been hijacked and rebranded as a lifestyle page—leading one ...

A renowned Chinese economist has been banned from posting on his Twitter-like Weibo and WeChat accounts since Jan. ...

The communist regime in Beijing is using the popular apps WeChat and TikTok to exert influence over Americans ...

News Analysis WeChat “allow[s] the Chinese Communist party access to Americans’ personal and proprietary information” said then-President Donald ...

News Analysis The Biden administration has been soft on communist China from the very beginning. Such examples include ...

Commentary In China, WeChat has become an indispensable tool for 1.2 billion of the country’s 1.4 billion people. ...

The Australian government is considering new laws that would standardise regulation across the digital payments industry and likely ...

The Chinese Communist Party is reining in its tech companies. But is it for control, finance, or politics? ...

BEIJING—Tencent's WeChat has temporarily suspended registration of new users in mainland China as it undergoes a technical upgrade ...

The communist regime in China uses health care and mobile apps as weapons against political dissent, according to ...

WASHINGTON—The Commerce Department said Monday it was rescinding a list of prohibited transactions with TikTok and WeChat that ...

Last weekend, while social media platforms across China were flooded with posts mourning the death of Yuan Longping, ...

A video claiming to show a hate attack on Chinese Americans in California is widely circulated in China ...

Military affairs have recently become a censored topic within the Great Firewall—communist China’s sophisticated internet censorship system, amid ...

Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and her husband own a financial stake in WeChat parent company Tencent Holdings, ...