#bannedcontent — Public Fediverse posts

Euronews: Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks – and it’s working. “One mother told researchers she caught her son using an eyebrow pencil to draw a moustache on his face to pass a platform’s facial age estimation check. It worked. He was verified as 15. He was 12.”

The Hill: Kalshi launches features to keep kids off betting platform. “The prediction market Kalshi is cracking down on kids using the platform, launching new features Monday to prevent individuals younger than 18 years old from accessing the site.”

RFI: France investigates return of banned website linked to rape and sexual abuse. “France has launched an investigation into the reappearance of the website that enabled Dominique Pelicot to recruit dozens of strangers to rape his heavily sedated wife, Gisèle, after it was banned two years ago.”

Moscow Times: Russian Platforms Label Pushkin, Gogol Classics Under ‘Drug Propaganda’ Law . “Russian e-book platforms and online retailers have begun attaching warnings about drug-related content to works by classic Russian authors including Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol and Ivan Turgenev under a new law banning so-called ‘drug propaganda,’ the exiled outlet Vyorstka reported.”

Moscow Times: Russian Platforms Label Pushkin, Gogol Classics Under ‘Drug Propaganda’ Law . “Russian e-book platforms and online retailers have begun attaching warnings about drug-related content to works by classic Russian authors including Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol and Ivan Turgenev under a new law banning so-called ‘drug propaganda,’ the exiled outlet Vyorstka reported.”

Moscow Times: Russian Platforms Label Pushkin, Gogol Classics Under ‘Drug Propaganda’ Law . “Russian e-book platforms and online retailers have begun attaching warnings about drug-related content to works by classic Russian authors including Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol and Ivan Turgenev under a new law banning so-called ‘drug propaganda,’ the exiled outlet Vyorstka reported.”

Moscow Times: Russian Platforms Label Pushkin, Gogol Classics Under ‘Drug Propaganda’ Law . “Russian e-book platforms and online retailers have begun attaching warnings about drug-related content to works by classic Russian authors including Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol and Ivan Turgenev under a new law banning so-called ‘drug propaganda,’ the exiled outlet Vyorstka reported.”

Moscow Times: Russian Platforms Label Pushkin, Gogol Classics Under ‘Drug Propaganda’ Law . “Russian e-book platforms and online retailers have begun attaching warnings about drug-related content to works by classic Russian authors including Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol and Ivan Turgenev under a new law banning so-called ‘drug propaganda,’ the exiled outlet Vyorstka reported.”

The Guardian: Kremlin forcing big firms to join ‘witch-hunt’ against internet rebels, claims report. “Major Russian companies have been conscripted into a ‘witch-hunt’ against users trying to circumvent online controls, researchers have said, as the Kremlin continues trying to cut its citizens off from the global internet.”

The Insider: Meat grinders with VPNs: How Russia’s Telegram blockade has hampered its own military effort. “Russia is pressing ahead with measures to throttle Telegram and, ultimately, to block the app entirely. The messenger is not only the country’s most popular social network and the largest source of uncensored information, it is also a critically important piece of infrastructure […]

The Insider: Meat grinders with VPNs: How Russia’s Telegram blockade has hampered its own military effort. “Russia is pressing ahead with measures to throttle Telegram and, ultimately, to block the app entirely. The messenger is not only the country’s most popular social network and the largest source of uncensored information, it is also a critically important piece of infrastructure […]

The Insider: Meat grinders with VPNs: How Russia’s Telegram blockade has hampered its own military effort. “Russia is pressing ahead with measures to throttle Telegram and, ultimately, to block the app entirely. The messenger is not only the country’s most popular social network and the largest source of uncensored information, it is also a critically important piece of infrastructure […]

The Insider: Meat grinders with VPNs: How Russia’s Telegram blockade has hampered its own military effort. “Russia is pressing ahead with measures to throttle Telegram and, ultimately, to block the app entirely. The messenger is not only the country’s most popular social network and the largest source of uncensored information, it is also a critically important piece of infrastructure […]

The Insider: Meat grinders with VPNs: How Russia’s Telegram blockade has hampered its own military effort. “Russia is pressing ahead with measures to throttle Telegram and, ultimately, to block the app entirely. The messenger is not only the country’s most popular social network and the largest source of uncensored information, it is also a critically important piece of infrastructure […]

Wall Street Journal: Justice Department rebuffs French on X probe, Musk interview. This article is MSN-syndicated and does not have a firewall. “The Justice Department told French law enforcement authorities it wouldn’t facilitate their efforts to investigate Elon Musk’s X, after a raid on the social-media platform’s Paris office earlier this year. The Justice Department’s Office of […]

The Record: Russia appears to block social media platform Bluesky amid wider internet restrictions. “Russian digital rights organization RKS Global told Recorded Future News that Bluesky had been added to the registry of banned websites maintained by Russia’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor, although the agency has not yet provided a public explanation.”

The Record: Russia appears to block social media platform Bluesky amid wider internet restrictions. “Russian digital rights organization RKS Global told Recorded Future News that Bluesky had been added to the registry of banned websites maintained by Russia’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor, although the agency has not yet provided a public explanation.”

The Record: Russia appears to block social media platform Bluesky amid wider internet restrictions. “Russian digital rights organization RKS Global told Recorded Future News that Bluesky had been added to the registry of banned websites maintained by Russia’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor, although the agency has not yet provided a public explanation.”

The Record: Russia appears to block social media platform Bluesky amid wider internet restrictions. “Russian digital rights organization RKS Global told Recorded Future News that Bluesky had been added to the registry of banned websites maintained by Russia’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor, although the agency has not yet provided a public explanation.”

The Record: Russia appears to block social media platform Bluesky amid wider internet restrictions. “Russian digital rights organization RKS Global told Recorded Future News that Bluesky had been added to the registry of banned websites maintained by Russia’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor, although the agency has not yet provided a public explanation.”

Mashable: YouTube bans Pro-Iran channel that mocked Donald Trump using viral lego videos. “As the war between the US, Israel, and Iran rages on, a parallel battle is being fought on social media. One of the most talked-about players in this digital propaganda war has been Explosive Media, a group believed to be linked to Iran. Explosive Media grew in popularity because of Lego-style animated […]

AzerNews: Google removes Belarusian state media YouTube channels amid sanctions concerns. “Google has removed three state-affiliated YouTube channels belonging to Belarus, in a move linked to international sanctions, AzerNEWS reports. According to reports by the state news agency BELTA, the deleted accounts included its own channel, as well as those operated by the television broadcasters ONT […]

AzerNews: Google removes Belarusian state media YouTube channels amid sanctions concerns. “Google has removed three state-affiliated YouTube channels belonging to Belarus, in a move linked to international sanctions, AzerNEWS reports. According to reports by the state news agency BELTA, the deleted accounts included its own channel, as well as those operated by the television broadcasters ONT […]

National Security Archive: A Disappearing Data Chronology. “The Disappearing Data Chronology documents fundamental changes to the federal information landscape under the Trump administration, including major data losses and restorations, legal challenges to information takedowns, and threats to archival collections. The purpose of this chronology is to keep the public—including journalists, […]

TechCrunch: Russian authorities block paywall removal site Archive.today. “Paywall bypass website Archive.today and several of its associated domains (including .is and .ph) have been blocked by Russian authorities, according to error pages that appeared when loading its websites. The pages appear blocked as of Monday when TechCrunch visited the websites from the U.S. East Coast. “

TechCrunch: Russian authorities block paywall removal site Archive.today. “Paywall bypass website Archive.today and several of its associated domains (including .is and .ph) have been blocked by Russian authorities, according to error pages that appeared when loading its websites. The pages appear blocked as of Monday when TechCrunch visited the websites from the U.S. East Coast. “

TechCrunch: Russian authorities block paywall removal site Archive.today. “Paywall bypass website Archive.today and several of its associated domains (including .is and .ph) have been blocked by Russian authorities, according to error pages that appeared when loading its websites. The pages appear blocked as of Monday when TechCrunch visited the websites from the U.S. East Coast. “

TechCrunch: Russian authorities block paywall removal site Archive.today. “Paywall bypass website Archive.today and several of its associated domains (including .is and .ph) have been blocked by Russian authorities, according to error pages that appeared when loading its websites. The pages appear blocked as of Monday when TechCrunch visited the websites from the U.S. East Coast. “

Search Engine Roundtable: Google Updates Alcohol, Prescription Drugs, Gambling & Government Policies. “Google has updated or is updating a number of Google Ads and Google Merchant Center policies. This goes across alcohol, prescription drugs, gambling and games and government documents and services policies.”

TorrentFreak: Belgian Pirate Site Blocking Order Targets Cloudflare and Google, But Not Their DNS. “Belgium’s site-blocking machine keeps turning. A new order, obtained by local broadcasters RTL Belgium and RTBF, compels ISPs, Cloudflare, and Google to restrict access to five illegal IPTV services. Importantly, the latter two are not required to block content through their DNS resolvers, which […]

TorrentFreak: Belgian Pirate Site Blocking Order Targets Cloudflare and Google, But Not Their DNS. “Belgium’s site-blocking machine keeps turning. A new order, obtained by local broadcasters RTL Belgium and RTBF, compels ISPs, Cloudflare, and Google to restrict access to five illegal IPTV services. Importantly, the latter two are not required to block content through their DNS resolvers, which […]

TorrentFreak: Belgian Pirate Site Blocking Order Targets Cloudflare and Google, But Not Their DNS. “Belgium’s site-blocking machine keeps turning. A new order, obtained by local broadcasters RTL Belgium and RTBF, compels ISPs, Cloudflare, and Google to restrict access to five illegal IPTV services. Importantly, the latter two are not required to block content through their DNS resolvers, which […]

TorrentFreak: Belgian Pirate Site Blocking Order Targets Cloudflare and Google, But Not Their DNS. “Belgium’s site-blocking machine keeps turning. A new order, obtained by local broadcasters RTL Belgium and RTBF, compels ISPs, Cloudflare, and Google to restrict access to five illegal IPTV services. Importantly, the latter two are not required to block content through their DNS resolvers, which […]

TechCrunch: Google says its AI systems helped deter Play Store malware in 2025. “In its latest Android app ecosystem safety report released on Thursday, Google said it prevented 1.75 million policy-violating apps from being published on Google Play in 2025, down from 2.36 million in 2024 and 2.28 million in 2023.”

Ars Technica: Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links. “In the course of discussing whether Archive.today should be deprecated because of the DDoS, Wikipedia editors discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages to insert the name of the blogger who was targeted by the DDoS. The alterations were apparently fueled by a grudge against the blogger […]

Euromaidan: Russia’s occupiers had a 60-second Telegram kill chain. Their own government just turned it into a hours-long crawl. “Before the slowdown, target data from a drone reportedly reached fire teams in under two minutes. Now, without Telegram, it crawls through layers of internal communication — arriving too late to matter, the occupiers themselves admit.”

Euromaidan: Russia’s occupiers had a 60-second Telegram kill chain. Their own government just turned it into a hours-long crawl. “Before the slowdown, target data from a drone reportedly reached fire teams in under two minutes. Now, without Telegram, it crawls through layers of internal communication — arriving too late to matter, the occupiers themselves admit.”

Euromaidan: Russia’s occupiers had a 60-second Telegram kill chain. Their own government just turned it into a hours-long crawl. “Before the slowdown, target data from a drone reportedly reached fire teams in under two minutes. Now, without Telegram, it crawls through layers of internal communication — arriving too late to matter, the occupiers themselves admit.”

Euromaidan: Russia’s occupiers had a 60-second Telegram kill chain. Their own government just turned it into a hours-long crawl. “Before the slowdown, target data from a drone reportedly reached fire teams in under two minutes. Now, without Telegram, it crawls through layers of internal communication — arriving too late to matter, the occupiers themselves admit.”

Euromaidan: Russia’s occupiers had a 60-second Telegram kill chain. Their own government just turned it into a hours-long crawl. “Before the slowdown, target data from a drone reportedly reached fire teams in under two minutes. Now, without Telegram, it crawls through layers of internal communication — arriving too late to matter, the occupiers themselves admit.”

ABC News (Australia): Groups targeted by federal hate laws quietly scrub social media channels and website. “Neo-Nazis and Hizb ut-Tahrir have wiped their social media of offensive content as new hate laws pass parliament. The former leader of the National Socialist Network has coached ex-members how to avoid attracting the attention of authorities. A neo-Nazi-linked church has suggested it […]

ABC News (Australia): Groups targeted by federal hate laws quietly scrub social media channels and website. “Neo-Nazis and Hizb ut-Tahrir have wiped their social media of offensive content as new hate laws pass parliament. The former leader of the National Socialist Network has coached ex-members how to avoid attracting the attention of authorities. A neo-Nazi-linked church has suggested it […]

ABC News (Australia): Groups targeted by federal hate laws quietly scrub social media channels and website. “Neo-Nazis and Hizb ut-Tahrir have wiped their social media of offensive content as new hate laws pass parliament. The former leader of the National Socialist Network has coached ex-members how to avoid attracting the attention of authorities. A neo-Nazi-linked church has suggested it […]

ABC News (Australia): Groups targeted by federal hate laws quietly scrub social media channels and website. “Neo-Nazis and Hizb ut-Tahrir have wiped their social media of offensive content as new hate laws pass parliament. The former leader of the National Socialist Network has coached ex-members how to avoid attracting the attention of authorities. A neo-Nazi-linked church has suggested it […]

ABC News (Australia): Groups targeted by federal hate laws quietly scrub social media channels and website. “Neo-Nazis and Hizb ut-Tahrir have wiped their social media of offensive content as new hate laws pass parliament. The former leader of the National Socialist Network has coached ex-members how to avoid attracting the attention of authorities. A neo-Nazi-linked church has suggested it […]

Bloomberg: Meta overlooks illegal online gambling ads, says UK watchdog. “Meta Platforms Inc. is turning a blind eye to illegal gambling sites that advertise on Facebook and Instagram, according to the UK’s Gambling Commission. The regulator has been checking Meta’s searchable ad library for operators that don’t have a license but are targeting people in the UK, according to a speech by […]

Tubefilter: YouTube removes the guesswork by expanding monetization for controversial content. “YouTube‘s guidelines for ad-friendly content are changing, and creators who cover controversial topics are in line for increased revenue. Videos that touch on certain sensitive issues will now be eligible for full monetization so long as they avoid graphic depictions of those subjects.”

Ars Technica: Apps like Grok are explicitly banned under Google’s rules—why is it still in the Play Store? . “It really could not be more clear from Google’s publicly available policies that Grok should have been banned yesterday. And yet, it remains in the Play Store. Not only that—it enjoys a T for Teen rating, one notch below the M-rated X app. Apple also still offers the Grok app on […]

The Verge: Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards. “Since X’s users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been waiting for what I assumed would be inevitable: X getting booted from Apple’s and Google’s app stores. The fact that it hasn’t happened yet tells me something serious about Silicon Valley’s leadership: Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are […]

Deadline: YouTube Shuts Down Channels Using AI To Create Fake Movie Trailers Watched By Millions. “The Google-owned video giant has switched off Screen Culture and KH Studio, which together boasted well over 2 million subscribers and more than a billion views.”