SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Chinese tech giant ByteDance censored content that it considered critical of the Chinese government on its news aggregator app in Indonesia from 2018 to mid-2020, six people with direct knowledge of the case told Reuters. Logos of Bytedance, the China-based company that shows the short video app …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration’s coronavirus vaccine project is recruiting scientists in South Africa and Latin America to test for possible vaccines in U.S.-backed clinical trials, and deploying them to access their countries to all successful products , Reuters has learned. FILE PHOTO: A volunteer receives an injection from …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration has filed a motion asking the court to file a lawsuit against the president’s executive order targeting social media companies, calling it a “deep misunderstanding” “, according to a copy of the motion seen by Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Facebook, Google and Twitter logos can …
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