TikTok users in the United States gained partial access to the popular social media app on Sunday, just hours before President-elect Donald Trump’s promised reinstatement order was expected to take effect. Earlier on Saturday, the app was taken offline after the US Supreme Court refused to rescue TikTok from aContinue Reading
When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced this week that the social media giant would scrap third-party fact-checking and ease moderation of sensitive topics, he cast the decision as reflecting the zeitgeist. The re-election of United States President-elect Donald Trump signaled a “cultural tipping point” towards free speech over moderation, ZuckerbergContinue Reading
After months of delay due to logistics, the first sets of mpox vaccines have finally arrived in Democratic Republic of the Congo, donated by Western countries. The Central African nation is the epicenter of a new mpox outbreak that led the World Health Organization (WHO) to sound its highest alertContinue Reading
Manila, the Philippines – From the early morning hours to late at night, Lance receives hundreds of threatening texts and dozens of missed calls each day. When he answers the phone, the person on the other end of the line often immediately hangs up. Other times, a threatening voice tellsContinue Reading
