Australia launches ‘landmark’ bill to ban social media for children under 16 SYDNEY: Australia’s centre-left government on Thursday introduced a bill in parliament that aims to ban social media... Published 21 Nov, 2024 11:09am
World UK’s The Guardian stops posting on ‘toxic media platform’ X LONDON: Britain’s The Guardian newspaper announced Wednesday it would no longer post content from its official... Published 13 Nov, 2024 07:33pm
World X suspends new account posting on behalf of Iran leader Khamenei WASHINGTON: The social media network X on Monday suspended an account that published Hebrew-language messages on... Published 28 Oct, 2024 06:09pm
World X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders SAO PAULO: Media platform X said on Saturday it would close its operations in Brazil "effective immediately" due to... Published 17 Aug, 2024 11:07pm
World Linda Yaccarino shakes up X amid Musk’s pressure on costs, FT says The chief executive of social media platform X, Linda Yaccarino, has shaken up her inner circle in the face of... Published 23 Jun, 2024 12:35pm
Pakistan Pakistan, India leaders resort to X diplomacy ISLAMABAD: India and Pakistan’s leaders resorted to diplomacy via X on Monday, a day after Narendra Modi was sworn... Published 11 Jun, 2024 03:17am
Markets Pakistan should ‘abandon’ CGT once and for all: co-founder of Tundra Fonder Remarks come over rumoured proposal to increase taxation on Pakistan's capital markets Updated 07 Jun, 2024 10:57pm
Editorials The ban on X EDITORIAL: Following weeks of obfuscation on the issue, the government had to come out to openly state, albeit... Published 24 Apr, 2024 03:50am
Pakistan ‘Closure of X’: IHC summons interior secy ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC), Wednesday, summoned the interior secretary in a petition challenging the... Published 04 Apr, 2024 04:56am
Pakistan Interior minister Mohsin Naqvi urges ‘better laws’ to regulate internet free speech ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s new interior minister Mohsin Naqvi said Tuesday the country needed better laws to regulate... Updated 19 Mar, 2024 10:22pm
World X says India’s demand to block accounts curtails freedom of expression NEW DELHI: Social media platform X said on Thursday it took down certain accounts and posts following an order by ... Published 23 Feb, 2024 06:36am
World US calls on Pakistan to lift social media restrictions WASHINGTON: The United States called Wednesday on Pakistan to lift restrictions on X, formerly known as Twitter,... Published 22 Feb, 2024 06:55am
Pakistan Social media platform X faces widespread outage in Pakistan Users face slow or non-existent accessibility to the platform Published 17 Feb, 2024 10:38pm
World Sri Lanka passes tough social media law COLOMBO: Sri Lanka on Wednesday passed legislation imposing hefty jail sentences on social media users for posts the... Published 24 Jan, 2024 06:00pm
World EU launches ‘illegal content’ probe into Elon Musk’s X BRUSSELS: The EU on Monday announced “formal infringement proceedings” against Elon Musk’s X platform under a law... Published 18 Dec, 2023 05:09pm
Technology Musk’s X strips headlines from news links PARIS: Elon Musk’s social media platform X has stripped headlines from news articles shared by users, in a move... Published 05 Oct, 2023 05:36pm
Technology Musk says X could charge all users ‘small monthly payment’ SAN FRANCISCO: Online platform X could introduce a monthly fee for all users, its owner Elon Musk said Monday,... Published 19 Sep, 2023 12:17pm
Technology Zuckerberg and Musk throw verbal jabs over proposed cage match WASHINGTON: Billionaires and social media business rivals Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk threw new online jabs at... Published 14 Aug, 2023 11:42am
Technology Musk says fight with Zuckerberg will be live-streamed on X Elon Musk said in a social media post that his proposed cage fight with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg would be... Published 06 Aug, 2023 06:17pm
World Musk’s X to fund legal bills of people ‘unfairly treated’ for posting on platform Elon Musk has said his X social media platform will fund the legal bills of people who have been treated unfairly by... Published 06 Aug, 2023 10:31am
World Sweden to present security measures amid Holy Quran burning crisis OSLO: The Swedish government said on Tuesday it would present measures to protect its citizens amid growing concerns... Published 01 Aug, 2023 12:17pm
Technology Twitter, now known as X, reinstates Kanye’s account: US media WASHINGTON: X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter, has reinstated rapper and designer Kanye West... Published 30 Jul, 2023 12:31pm
KSE-100 closes above 97,000 for the first time as investors dismiss political noise, index gains 1,782 points