This article originally appeared on ProPublica. At least two dozen groups on the Chinese-owned social media app WeChat have been circulating misinformation that the U.S. Department of Homeland ...

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The Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media has been tasked with probing the risk posed to the nation's democracy by foreign interference through social media. Twitter, Google, ...

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ByteDance, the world’s most-valued startup, just launched a new social media product under its Douyin brand in what many people see as a serious attempt to challenge WeChat. Tencent has long dominated ...

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The super app banned users who shared images of a rare pro-democracy demonstration. Now they’re posting “confession letters” in a desperate hope to regain access. On Weibo, the popular Chinese social ...