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Matt Bors, a left-leaning cartoonist who runs a site called The Nib, gets most of his traffic from Facebook and Instagram. Credit...Norman Wong for The New York TimesMatt Bors, a left-leaning cartoonist who runs a site called The Nib, gets most of his traffic from Facebook and Instagram. Credit...Norman Wong for The...

Continue reading the main storyOfficials said the social network had failed to block objectionable political content, a sign of the sacrifices it must make to remain in the vast but difficult market.To remain in China, Microsoft’s service for professionals, LinkedIn, censors Chinese users’ content.Credit...Aly Song/...

The video platform became the latest American internet giant to take down the military’s content since the coup last month.

The move puts the social network squarely on the side of Myanmar’s pro-democracy movement after years of criticism over how the military has used the site.

The Kremlin has constructed an entire infrastructure of repression but has not displaced Western apps. Instead, it is turning to outright intimidation.

The social media platform’s problems in the country offer a stark example of the difficulty of adhering to its free-speech principles amid government worries over its influence.

China’s censors finally blocked Clubhouse, but not before users were able to bypass the caricatures painted by government-controlled media and freely discuss their hopes and fears.

For a little while, the social media platform Clubhouse provided the rare opportunity for cross-border dialogue on contentious topics free from the country’s usual tight controls.

Companies inspired by the cryptocurrency are creating social networks, storing online content and hosting websites without any central authority.

The app has helped fuel democracy movements in Iran and Belarus but now faces scrutiny as extremists and conspiracy theorists flock to it amid crackdowns by Facebook and Twitter on disinformation.

Deplatforming President Trump showed that the First Amendment is broken — but not in the way his supporters think.

Jack Dorsey, the chief executive, had reservations about locking the president’s account. But the calls for violence that his tweets provoked were too overwhelming.

Blurring the distinction between companies and government, official propaganda outlets use President Trump’s ouster from Twitter and Facebook to argue that nobody in the world enjoys free speech.

The actions followed the barring of President Trump from the service last week, as Twitter has moved to distance itself from violent content.

Tracking what may be planned in the coming days could become even more difficult as the groups take to lesser-known networks and apps that can’t be easily monitored.

The companies pulled support for the “free speech” social network, all but killing the service just as many conservatives are seeking alternatives to Facebook and Twitter.

The ability of a handful of people to control our public discourse has never been more obvious.