France is preparing a fresh legislative push to curb excessive screen time among children, with a draft law proposing a ban on social media access for those under 15 by next September, according to a document seen by AFP.The move has the backing of President Emmanuel Macron, who earlier this month said Parliament should begin […]
The US State Department started social media vetting of H-1B, H-4 visa applicants from December 15 in a major immigration check. Visa officers are going through all the social media handles of the applicants to check for any anti-American content and applications are getting approved accordingly, at the end of the day or a few […]
Time to screen social media LONDON: A frustrated father in Spain, whose teenage daughter regularly sidesteps parental controls that block social media, wants the government to ban apps like TikTok and Instagram for children. In France, a mother of three worries about social media’s effect on young people and will not give her children smartphones […]
Peng Peiyun was China’s Family Planning Commission head from 1988-98 BEIJING: The death of a former head of China’s one-child policy has been met not by tributes but by castigation of the abandoned policy on social media this week. State media praised Peng Peiyun, head of China’s Family Planning Commission from 1988 to 1998, as […]
UAE creates unified authority to govern media / Image: File The United Arab Emirates has issued a new Federal Decree-Law to establish the National Media Authority, a major step in reshaping how media is governed in the country. This move replaces three existing bodies, the UAE Media Council, National Media Office, and Emirates News Agency […]
Social media users Tuesday claimed that a Brown University student’s social media footprints were getting deleted as the manhunt for the shooter entered the fourth day, The law enforcement did not release the name of any suspect but social media users pointed out that the university removed the profile page of a student named Mustapha […]
After the US State Department started social media vetting on December 15, there is now no immediate approval or rejection of visa appeals and candidates are issued a 221(g) slip. Candidates are also being asked whether they made their social media accounts public and then the visa approval status is updated online. Users on Reddit […]
A Redditor shared the experience of his visa interview at India’s Chennai consulate as the social media vetting process began on December 15. The process put hundreds of visa applicants in a limbo as the consulates deferred the interview to next year, claiming that the social media vetting process would take time and hence consulates […]
Mizkif (via Mizkif/YouTube) Twitch streamer Matthew “Mizkif” has confirmed that his relationship with his girlfriend, Juice, has ended. The popular streamer shared the update exclusively in a YouTube Shorts video. The video was titled Breakup. In it, Mizkif spoke directly to his fans and explained why he has been absent from streaming in recent days.The […]
Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, was convicted on Monday in a landmark national security trial, a verdict that could see him sentenced to life in prison. The 78-year-old was found guilty of conspiracies to commit sedition and to collude with foreign forces in a case that […]
