Social media sites Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube and messaging service Whatsapp are currently being blocked across Turkey according to an incident report by Turkish Internet watchdog organization Turkey Blocks. Originally, Turkey…
Starting Thursday, 11:07PM local time in Turkey, internet users started reporting that Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter had been blocked. Internet users in Turkey were forced to use a VPN to…
With the information disarray coming out of Turkey during the (seemingly failed) military coup, we see the same pattern of attempting to control media as we've seen for the past…
The Turkey coup to unseat Erdogan has predictably resulted in social media censorship as the Turkish government and military start firing shots. The two major bridges leading in and out…
Vietnam enforced a Facebook ban for a week last month. Censorship is a tool most often used by those that understand it least. Fighting against censorship forces one to come…
Russia's FindFace service, which has been in the news for identifying random subway passengers and for people using it to de-anonymize porn talent, continues to show the effects of an…
Егор Цветков (Egor Tsvetkov), a photographer in Russia, has taken photos of random people on the subway and connected them to social media portraits and complete profiles using face matching…
A Facebook executive was arrested (and subsequently released) in Brazil for refusing to hand over Whatsapp metadata to authorities. This story highlights how reality sometimes hits you in the face…
It was too conspiratorial to be true - links showing stories on the United States Drone Assassination Program weren't showing up on Twitter if you were accessing Twitter from United…
A French court has ruled that a challenge to Facebook's terms of service under French law may go ahead in a French court. A man had had his account suspended…