SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Various media watchdogs have condemned the move by Indian authorities to restrict access to the website and social media accounts of independent news outlet The Kashmir Walla. The International Federation of Journalists issued a statement saying that there is an overstepping of power to exert censorship...
– Communications and Technology Ministry points to adverse effects of platforms on youth MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somalia’s Ministry of Communications and Technology decided Sunday to ban the use of social media platforms TikTok and Telegram as well as the online betting platform 1XBET. The ban comes in the wake of a communi...
– Police receiving condemnation after raiding small Kansas newspaper TORONTO (AA) – Items that were seized have been returned and are set to be assessed by a forensic analyst amid days of nationwide controversy regarding the raid on a newspaper’s office and the publisher’s residence, according to the co-owner and publis...
Mumbai, India — AFP The Kerala Story is one of a slew of polarising films sparking concern Bollywood is churning out cultural propaganda to bolster support for India’s ruling party ahead of elections. The trailer for the anti-Muslim box office hit claims to depict “innocent girls trapped, transformed and trafficked for terror...
-Company said the action was taken to prevent the spread of medical misinformation through its platform. ANKARA, Turkiye (AA) – Social media platform YouTube has announced that it will remove content that contradicts guidelines from local health authorities or the World Health Organization. The company said the action was taken to preven...
TOPEKA, Kansas – Dozens of U.S. news organizations have condemned a police raid on a local newspaper and the editor’s home in Kansas. The raid was conducted by five Marion Police Department (MPD) officers and two county sheriff’s deputies. The raid reportedly occurred as the newspaper The Record had investigated allegations o...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Turkish drone maker Baykar’s defense agreements have made headlines in the US media. Baykar signed the largest export agreement in defense and aviation in the history of Türkiye with Saudi Arabia last week. Following this agreement, the company signed a cooperation agreement with the Saudi Arabian Military Industrie...
BEIRUT (AA): Lebanese state television stopped broadcasting on Friday its regular programs amid employees’ strike over unpaid wages. “In accordance with what is being circulated in the media about the closure of Lebanon TV, I will have a position shortly that clarifies the truth of the matter,” Information Minister Ziad Makary said on so...
LONDON – An international coalition of more than 35 civil rights groups has called on British global news service Reuters to end its partnership with India’s Asia News International (ANI). They accuse ANI of being complicit in Islamophobic reporting and spreading propaganda unleashed by Hindu nationalists. In a letter to Reuters and its ...
ANKARA (AA) – Kuwait’s Information Ministry has banned the film Barbie in order to protect “public ethics and traditions,” state media said on Thursday. Lafi al-Subaie, head of the ministry’s film censorship committee, said the movie which has topped $1 billion at the global box office, promulgates “ideas and beli...
