A Russian court fined Alphabet’s Google over $288,000 for distributing VPN services on the Google Play app store. VPNs allow Russians to ac...

Russia announced Thursday it had blocked WhatsApp over its alleged failure to comply with Russian legislation, days after restricting acces...

Disinformation research groups in the US face challenges from lawsuits and probes, primarily by Republicans and Elon Musk. These legal acti...

With independent Russian-language media banned, YouTube is a key source of opposition views. One video by late opposition leader Alexei Nav...

Concerns have mounted in recent months about a spate of disinformation related to parliamentary elections in Slovakia on Sept. 30 and Polan...

Rights advocates say that Russia under President Vladimir Putin has harnessed digital technology to track, censor and control the populatio...

Over the last year, Moscow has levied dozens of fines against Western tech companies to ramp up control over what Russian internet users se...

The most diligent censor, by at least one measure, is Microsoft's search engine Bing, the only foreign search engine operating in the count...

By blocking online platforms, shutting down the last vestige of Russia’s independent media and making it a crime to refer to the fighting i...

TikTok and Netflix are suspending their services in the country. Facebook has been blocked. Twitter has been partially blocked and YouTube’...

Speaking at the European Parliament during a debate on foreign interference and disinformation, the EU's top diplomat Josep Borrell brushed...

The regulator, Roskomnadzor, said there had been 26 cases of discrimination against Russian media by Facebook since October 2020, including...

President Xi Jinping's government has tried to distance itself from Russia's offensive but avoided criticizing Moscow. The government has o...

YouTube said RT's German branch had received a "strike" for uploading material that violated YouTube's standards on Covid-19 misinformation...

The vote comes in the wake of an unprecedented crackdown on the opposition this year, with Russian authorities jailing Putin's best-known d...

In Russia, where state-controlled media outlets co-exist in stark contrast with online platforms popular among the opposition, authorities ...

US' National Security Agency, India's Centre for Development of Telematics, and the UK's GCHQ have been named among the worst online spies.