--FILE--The icon of mobile messaging app Weixin, or WeChat, of Tencent, center, is seen on the screen of an Apple iPhone smartphone in Shanghai, China, 5 April 2013. The government will not interfere ...

The news alert buzzed on my cellphone in Beijing. Facebook had bought messaging service WhatsApp for a gazillion dollars. Personally, I didn’t care. Because Chinese government censors have blocked so ...

WeChat is different. By design, it does not use end-to-end encryption to protect user data. That is because the Chinese government exercises strict control over the app and relies on its weak security ...

Other accounts simply had a message "unnamed official account" or did not appear in search results, reported Reuters. Universities and colleges do not have LGBTQ student groups on campus. Over the ...

WeChat is best known as China's all-purpose "super-app." It is used for everything from messaging and mobile payments to shopping and government services. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

Russian counterintelligence agents are analyzing data from the popular Chinese messaging and social media app WeChat to monitor people who might be in contact with Chinese spies, according to a ...