Lately: The inner workings of China’s firewall, Charlie Kirk shooting videos proliferate online and the new iPhone Air

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🤐 Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of China’s Great Firewall

⚠️ Graphic videos of Charlie Kirk shooting proliferate on social media

📱 The new iPhone Air (and an exciting AirPod development)

🤳 Foreign TikTok accounts dominated Canadian federal election coverage

CENSORSHIP

The global expansion of China’s Great Firewall technology

The Great Firewall is China’s nationwide system of online censorship and surveillance.

China’s Great Firewall, the vast online censorship and surveillance apparatus that blocks social media platforms like Facebook and TikTok, surveils online dissent and prevents anti-government organizing fr