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Chinese state media said on Sunday that three astronauts returned to Earth aboard the re-entry capsule of the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft, concluding a six-month mission at China’s space station.

Twitter will no longer take action against accounts that post misleading information about covid or tweets containing false information about covid. A note reading “Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy” was quietly added to the platform’s pages outlining its covid misinformation policies rather than a public announcement.

Platformer says that Twitter will not offer its revised Blue subscription as an in-app purchase on iOS when it eventually relaunches to avoid Apple’s 30% fee for App Store transactions. The new Blue was only available for a short time earlier this month, and then just on the iOS app of Twitter.

The British government has stated that it would not mandate internet companies to remove “legal but harmful” content from their platforms in response to concerns made by activists and legislators that such a mandate would stifle free speech.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission has taken steps to improve official and informal coordination between cybercrime units to combat cybercrime in West Africa.

The United States government announced on Friday that it would no longer allow the import or sale of communications equipment that posed “an unacceptable risk to national security,” including products made by Huawei Technologies and ZTE, two major telecom manufacturers in China.

The British government has stated its intent to make it a crime to distribute pornographic deepfakes without the subject’s consent.

Authorities in Malaysia have warned of a surge in ethnic hatred on social media following an inconclusive general election, prompting short video platform TikTok to say on Wednesday that it was on high alert for anything that breaches its guidelines.