civil liberties

While his other plans for Twitter aren’t publicly known, Mr. Musk has signaled his intention to reduce moderation efforts and embrace more free expression. He is, in effect, talking about…

People around the world are using a new website to circumvent the Kremlin’s propaganda machine by sending individual messages about the war in Ukraine to random people in Russia.The website…

Russia is dropping a digital iron curtain over its population, creating a big, new fracture in the global internet—but there are still big gaps in President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to cut…

Walt Disney Co. DIS 1.44% Chief Executive Bob Chapek reversed course on his policy of staying out of…

A California regulatory agency said it filed a lawsuit against Tesla Inc., TSLA 1.08% alleging racial discrimination and harassment at the…

Pro-China accounts have been flooding Twitter with messages that include the hashtag #GenocideGames, in what researchers say is an effort to dilute the hashtag’s power to galvanize criticism…

Spotify Technology SA Chief Executive Daniel Ek apologized to employees for the backlash that has followed the emergence of Joe Rogan’s use of a racial slur in previous podcast episodes.He…

WASHINGTON—The House is poised Friday to approve a sprawling $350 billion initiative to boost U.S. competitiveness with China and other rivals, but differences with the Senate signal…

SYDNEY—When one Rio Tinto RIO -2.38% PLC worker reported she had been sexually harassed by a colleague, a manager told her it had probably…

With less than two weeks to go before the start of the Winter Games in Beijing, several Olympics sponsors are skipping what is usually an Olympics-themed advertising blitz.In 2018,…