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China announces top critic who disappeared after criticizing CCP is undergoing “disciplinary review”
Ren Zhigiang criticized the government’s coronavirus censorship.
Colleges threaten students not to share any recordings of classes outside the school
Don’t reveal what goes on behind closed doors.
Chinese game developer bans Taiwanese players for using terms “China coronavirus” and “Wuhan coronavirus”
Chinese government officials and legacy media outlets have tried to dissuade people from describing the coronavirus in a way that points to its origins.
Snapchat, Gmail, Pinterest, and more face outages after Google Cloud failure
A Google Cloud outage is affecting many online platforms and businesses.
Wondery podcast network CEO and others, charged with wire fraud and money-laundering offenses
The alleged multimillion-dollar scheme involved kickbacks to Fifa officials for broadcast rights.
Belgium’s Health Minister caught picking boogers out of her nose live on Zoom
While Maggie De Block won’t be the first to get caught doing something bad on Zoom this week, you would expect a public health minister to know better – especially during a pandemic.
Congressional candidate Nicole Malliotakis slammed over photoshopped coronavirus supplies Instagram post
The post made it seem like Malliotakis was handing out coronavirus supplies in New York’s 11th congressional district (NY-11) when she was actually in Albany.
Grammar app Grammarly says it recommends people don’t use phrase “Chinese” or “Wuhan” virus
Grammarly suggests people “change the term” to avoid bias and misinformation.
Police arrest Snapchat teen who faked COVID-19 infection, threatened to “infest every motherf*****” in Walmart
Lorraine Maradiaga is charged with making a terrorist threat.
YouTube hits Cringe Panda channel with two strikes and removes videos that criticize transgender activists
YouTube said that the videos violated its controversial “hate speech” rules.
WhatsApp to cut message forwarding to prevent coronavirus “misinformation”
WhatsApp can’t read people’s messages so it’ll just prevent everyone from forwarding too much.
YouTuber twomad’s one million subscriber plaque stolen after code leak during live stream
YouTube’s current awards redemption system means anyone with the code can claim the plaque.