NEW DELHI: At a polling booth in north Delhi’s Majnu Ka Tilla, Reshma pressed the button on an electronic voting machine on Wednesday with a sense of pride as a smile spread across her face.For the first time in her life, the 50-year-old woman cast her vote – not just to choose a candidate, but…
Think of how many times you see a Chinese person’s post on social media. Most likely, it will be very little to none. But, this might be changing for many Americans. TikTok is facing an imminent shutdown after getting no Supreme Court relief on a federal ban imposed on it over security concerns. With TikTok’s…
Follow live updates on the Supreme Court ruling against TikTok. As a TikTok ban looms, hundreds of thousands of Americans casting about for a new video-sharing app have migrated to Xiaohongshu, a social media platform that translates as “Little Red Book,” the American nickname for a classic compendium of quotations from Chairman Mao. It has…
With a ban on TikTok looming in the United States, many American users are finding a new digital home on the Chinese social media app RedNote, the South China Morning Post has reported. As the clock ticks down to January 19, a flood of American users, affectionately dubbed TikTok refugees, has arrived on the platform,…
In easier times for Egypt’s refugees, Azza Mostafa, a pro-government TV anchor, had nothing but generous words for the many thousands of Syrians who had built new lives in Egypt after their own country imploded into civil war in 2011. “I’d like to say to our Syrian families and our brothers in Egypt,” she said…