Musk's rebranding of Twitter to its product name, "X", may have caused the company to lose anywhere between $4 billion and $20 billion in v...

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said it had closed 67,000 social media accounts and deleted hundreds of thousands of posts bet...

The campaign has spurred concerns that larger rival Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. or upstart PDD Holdings Inc. may retaliate with cuts of thei...

Tencent-owned WeChat said it had received "complaints" about Bloomberg's "Daybreak" account, which posts global market updates, reports Sou...

Amid growing diplomatic tensions with China, Australia's two major political parties have used the social media platform, owned by Chinese ...

Half of WeChat users spend more than 90 minutes a day on the app.

Indian troops on the China border have been asked to format their smartphones and delete Chinese apps that may be compromising national sec...

China does have policies about message record-keeping, but it’s unclear to what extent they are enforced.

Some app operators were punished for the lack of a mechanism to censor content and some anchors used the platforms to spread illegal conten...

China has shut down over 580 social media accounts, including those of popular commentators, for spreading rumour, misleading public and vi...

WeChat has become an important promotional tool for companies trying to reach affluent Chinese.

The suspects joined the mobile messaging app WeChat as antique sellers duping antique aficionados and other buyers.

In the crackdown on pirates, the developers found that some public accounts abused the "originality declaration" function for copycat conte...

China has shut down 133 accounts on its hugely popular mobile messaging app for distorting Chinese history and the history of the ruling Co...

More than 800 million people use instant messengers in China, sending more than 20 billion pieces of information every day.

Alibaba has also invested aggressively in gaming and instant messaging, two services that hadn’t been central to Ma’s vision for Alibaba un...

The number of Chinese microblog accounts had exceeded 1.3 billion by the end of November, making this a major channel for disseminating inf...