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Wonder Land: The pre-liberal idea of settling issues with coercion has made a comeback in the U.S. Image: Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images The Trump administration is pressing ahead with efforts to ...

Text messages are going the way of checking accounts and pornography: There are too many free options to justify paying for them. Third-party texting apps such as Whatsapp, Kik and WeChat are ...

The Trump administration has officially banned the Chinese-owned messaging and mobile payment app WeChat from US app stores starting this Sunday, Sept. 20, leaving many people who regularly use the ...

This article is part of the Free Speech Project, a collaboration between Future Tense and the Tech, Law, & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law that examines the ways ...

The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it will reverse a Trump-era executive order banning Chinese apps like TikTok and WeChat to conduct its own "evidence-based" analysis of the potential ...

Apple has launched an online store in China's WeChat app, the Tencent-owned social media platform has announced (via Reuters). China's dominant messaging app will host the Apple store via one of its ...

The Trump administration made good on its threat to block U.S. users from accessing TikTok and WeChat, announcing that American businesses will be banned from distributing either of the Chinese-owned ...

The Trump administration made good on its threat to block U.S. users from accessing TikTok and WeChat, announcing that American businesses will be banned from distributing either of the Chinese-owned ...