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Tom Bowker tweets that he has been banned from country for 10 years over alleged irregularitiesA British journalist covering an insurgency in northern Mozambique has been expelled from the country, he tweeted on Tuesday, days after his accreditation was revoked over alleged irregularities.Tom Bowker, the co-founder of the anglophone Mozambican news website Zitamar News, had his foreign correspondent card withdrawn on 29 January –...

The exclusive invitation-only social networking app is a hybrid of conference calls, talkback radio and HousepartyPart talkback radio, part conference call, part Houseparty, Clubhouse is a social networking app based on audio-chat. Users can listen in to conversations, interviews and discussions between interesting people on various topics – it is just like tuning in to a podcast but live and with an added layer...

‘My first picture of Nyome Nicholas-Williams was removed by Instagram. This one was taken as a celebration after it agreed to change its algorithms’When I noticed the model and activist Nyome Nicholas-Williams on social media early last summer, I felt hugely appreciative of how confident she was in her images. She was celebrating who she was. I base a lot of my work around...

Director of Tandav agrees to remove scenes deemed to insult Hindu gods and office of Indian prime ministerAn Indian political drama on Amazon Prime has been forced to edit out scenes that were accused of being an “insult to Hindu gods”, the first time that streaming platforms have been subjected to Indian government censorship.Tandav, a gritty political drama made by Amazon Prime, one of...

Instagram star Sahar Tabar says she is still hoping for a pardon after conviction for corrupting young peopleAn Iranian woman who posted heavily distorted images of herself online has been sentenced to 10 years in jail, her lawyer has said, a year after she was arrested over her social media activities. Sahar Tabar, 19, whose real name is Fatemeh Khishvand, came to prominence after...

Zehra Doğan spent nearly three years in Turkish jails and smuggled out her works as dirty laundryAn exiled artist who spent almost three years in jail in Turkey is shining a light on Kurdish feminism with a daring exhibition of works she created while behind bars.Zehra Doğan was among the thousands of people who have been caught up in arrests and detentions in Turkey...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s draconian legislation comes into force this week in a bid to censor free speech onlineWhen a team of 20 police officers demanded to search journalist Oktay Candemir’s flat earlier this month, he feared the worst: members of the Turkish media who are critical of the government are often arrested on spurious terrorism charges, and he has been in trouble several...

Curb on 1m-member ‘Royalist Marketplace’ comes after legal threat from Thai governmentFacebook has blocked access within Thailand to a group with 1 million members that discusses the country’s king, after the Thai government threatened legal action over failure to take down content deemed defamatory to the monarchy.The move comes amid near daily youth-led protests against the government and unprecedented calls for changes to the...

#IwanttoseeNyome outcry after social media platform repeatedly removes pictures of Nyome Nicholas-WilliamsFifteen minutes into her shoot with model Nyome Nicholas-Williams, photographer Alexandra Cameron knew she had captured the perfect image: a dreamy split second with Nicholas-Williams bathed under natural light, her eyes closed and arms wrapped around her breasts.The response on Instagram was ecstatic: “stunning … beautiful … this should be in a gallery!”....

Residents rush to erase digital footprints as law gives police powers over online activityAt midnight on Tuesday, the Great Firewall of China, the vast apparatus that limits the country’s internet, appeared to descend on Hong Kong.Unveiling expanded police powers as part of a contentious new national security law, the Hong Kong government enabled police to censor online speech and force internet service providers to...

Carmen Arestegui’s battle to stay on the airwaves is the subject of a film highlighting the risks of exposing corruption and crimeWhen Mexican news anchor Carmen Aristegui was fired from a popular radio show after revealing a presidential scandal on air, it sparked an outpouring of anger and protests.For millions of listeners Aristegui is a trusted voice cutting through government spin and corruption, and...

Exclusive: report criticising government lockdown proposals heavily redacted before release Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageGovernment scientific advisers are furious at what they see as an attempt to censor their advice on government proposals during the Covid-19 lockdown by heavily redacting an official report before it was released to the public, the Guardian can reveal.The report was one of a series of...

Freedom of expression group names and shames alleged offenders on online censorship and orchestrated repressionA freedom of expression group has launched a list of “digital predators”, ranking what it says are 20 of the world’s worst offenders for cyber-censorship and orchestrated online repression.Published on Thursday by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) to coincide with World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, the list names and shames entities around...

The word is loaded with connotations of state suppression but NZ’s chief censor takes a different viewWhen David Shanks presents himself at international conferences, his peers recoil slightly.“I’d introduce myself as, ‘Hi, I’m David from New Zealand. New Zealand’s chief censor,’” he says. “And basically these people would take an involuntary step backwards, almost, on many occasions.” Continue reading...

Disney removes clip to avoid censor giving film higher age rating A scene showing a lesbian kiss has been cut from the Singaporean version of the Star Wars film The Rise of Skywalker.The country’s media regulatory body said Disney removed the clip to avoid the film being given a higher age rating. It is PG13, which means parental guidance is advised for children under...

Chinese-owned video sharing platform blocked Feroza Aziz after she posted film disguised as makeup tutorialTikTok has apologised for blocking a US teenager from the Chinese-owned video sharing platform after she posted a video highlighting Beijing’s treatment of Muslims in Xinjiang.A spokesman for the platform on Thursday blamed a “human moderation error” for the removal of a video by 17-year-old Feroza Aziz disguised as a...

Teenager claims video sharing platform is censoring her posts, which TikTok denies An American teenager who is using makeup tutorials on TikTok to spread awareness of China’s detention of at least a million Muslims in internment camps in Xinjiang has claimed her videos are being censored by the platform.In a three-part series that has gone viral on the international version of the Chinese short...

Actor Olivia Wilde, who directed Booksmart, called out the airline on Twitter for showing edited versions of her filmThe airline Delta has said it will start showing fuller versions of the films Booksmart and Rocketman that were controversially edited to remove scenes involving LGBTQ love and sexuality. Related: 'No scissor emoji?!' Olivia Wilde criticises airline censorship of Booksmart Continue reading...