civil liberties

SINGAPORE—France’s TotalEnergies SE TTE -2.18% said it is withdrawing from Myanmar over shareholder pressure and a deteriorating human-rights situation since the country’s military seized…

Around 35 journalists and activists in El Salvador were targets of the highly invasive Pegasus software to extract information from their cellphones as civil liberties deteriorated in the country, according to a forensic analysis conducted…

Tesla Inc. TSLA 12.19% has opened a new showroom in Xinjiang, the remote region where Chinese authorities are carrying out a campaign of forcible assimilation against religious minorities…

OnlyFans, a social-media platform whose popularity was built on viewers’ subscriptions to adult content, is planning to ban sex videos. OnlyFans said Thursday that starting Oct. 1, it will prohibit content that features…

The number of U.S. lawsuits alleging that websites, apps and digital videos were inaccessible to people with disabilities rose 64% in the first half of 2021 from a year earlier, a new report says.Plaintiffs filed 1,661 lawsuits claiming…

Former Trump adviser Jason Miller says a new, free-speech-focused social-media platform he is leading has received financial backing from a foundation tied to fugitive Chinese businessman Guo Wengui. Called Gettr—a…

A federal judge in Florida on Wednesday blocked the state from enforcing key parts of a new law that makes social-media companies such as Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. potentially liable for censoring political candidates,…

JAMIE DEKLIN has a long history of booking short-term rentals. The actor learned the ins and outs while touring with a Broadway show. “I traveled with two dogs, so I’d check Vrbo for places allowing them,” she said.…

SINGAPORE—Eyck Freymann, an Oxford University doctoral student, was surprised to get a notice from LinkedIn this month telling him his account had been blocked in China. The “Experience” section of his profile, which detailed his career…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Monday aimed at making big tech platforms more accountable for their content decisions, a move with political overtones that appeared likely to draw legal…