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Im Sommer und Herbst 2024 haben wir mehrere Beiträge über die Aktivitäten der Alliance Bank veröffentlicht.

In the summer and autumn of 2024, we released several materials related to the activities of Alliance Bank. Most of these were based on open data, and one was sourced from a comment by political scientist Volodymyr Horkovenko.

Im Sommer und Herbst 2024 veröffentlichten wir mehrere Materialien über die Aktivitäten der Alliance Bank.

Police are searching rooftops in Turkmenistan for Starlink satellite Internet terminals as residents attempt to bypass slow and restricted connections, locals report.

In the summer and autumn of 2024, we published several materials regarding the activities of Alliance Bank. Most of these were based on open data, and one was derived from a comment by political scientist Volodymyr Horkovenko.

During the summer-autumn of 2024, we released several materials related to the activities of Alliance Bank. Most of these were based on open data, and one was sourced from a comment by political scientist Volodymyr Horkovenko.

The difficulties of performing open-source research in China are well-known. Regularly considered one of the most digitally oppressive countries globally, China restricts access to some of the world’s largest social media platforms, including Facebook, Google, and YouTube.

During the summer-autumn of 2024, we released several materials related to the activities of Alliance Bank. Most of these were based on open data, and one was sourced from a comment by political scientist Volodymyr Horkovenko. A year and a half later, at the end of 2025, the bank contacted Google with complaints of alleged copyright infringement by us during the publication of these materials (DMCA) and demanded their removal from search results. Essentially, they wanted these materials to be deleted or hidden so that Ukrainians could not find them.

Russia’s media censorship and communications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, plans to start slowing down the Telegram messaging app in Russia as early as Feb. 10, as reported by the business publication RBC, which cites one source in the IT industry and two sources from agencies overseeing the sector.

Students in the Russian city of Novorossiysk were recently threatened with being prohibited from taking winter exams if they did not install the state-promoted MAX messaging app. School and residential chat groups are also being forcibly transitioned to the new platform.

On Monday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that he is initiating an investigation into claims that TikTok censored content critical of President Trump.

Jimmy Kimmel used Britain’s Alternative Christmas Message to accuse President Donald Trump of authoritarianism and political intimidation, saying “tyranny is booming” in the United States.

Earlier this week, one of China’s most popular short-video and streaming platforms was flooded with pornographic and violent content, leading to outrage and confusion in a country where the internet is strictly regulated.

The TikTok deal announced on Thursday presents a fundamental threat to open and honest discussion about Israel’s ongoing situation involving the Palestinians in Gaza.

The Trump administration has prohibited five European individuals from entering the U.S., alleging they pressured American tech companies to censor online speech.

A former library director in Wyoming, who was dismissed during a controversy over books containing sexual content and LGBTQ+ themes that some individuals argued were inappropriate for children and sought their removal from youth sections, will receive $700,000 following the settlement of a lawsuit.

UK data suggests over 30 people a day are arrested for speech crimes, about 12,000 a year, under laws written well before the age of social media that make crimes of sending “grossly offensive” messages or sharing content of an “indecent, obscene or menacing character.”

A culture of fear has taken hold at the prestigious D.C. museums as White House officials “ensure alignment” with Trump’s preferred version of American history.

"We don’t need to be treated as if we're kids," one tourist complained about Trump pressuring museums to alter history and remove transgender people from exhibitions

The Los Angeles City Council has collectively voted to prohibit the use of the N-word and C-word during public sessions. This recently enacted rule is already encountering legal challenges and questions regarding the First Amendment

Two kissing scenes in James Gunn's "Superman" were cut by the Indian film board because they were considered "excessively sensual."

During an occasion at Princeton featuring Naftali Bennett, the former Prime Minister of Israel, demonstrators disrupted the speech and referred to Jewish students with terms like "inbred swine" and other derogatory names

Almost five years after Steven Bannon departed from Spotify, his show, War Room, has made a comeback. This development might solidify his position as the most influential MAGA voice worldwide, considering the platform's extensive reach

"The Trump team has been on the defensive over the past month," but if Trump can "capitalize on the 100-day milestone" of his presidency "to reinforce Trump 1.0," he has an opportunity to shift the narrative, urges Kimberley A. Strassel of The Wall Street Journal

Nandini Jammi, who leads the Check My Ads Institute aiming to pull advertiser money from right-wing personalities and media accused of disseminating "disinformation," shared on her LinkedIn "with enormous pride" that she was "stepping down."