Three days before a ban on the use of China-owned app WeChat in the United States is supposed to take effect, the Trump administration still hasn’t said what specifically is being banned—only that ...

The Trump administration on Friday said it will ban Chinese-owned apps TikTok and WeChat from the App Store on Sunday, but you’ll still be able to use TikTok until November 12 if you already have it ...

WeChat — one of the apps President Donald Trump believes could be a national security risk — is no longer being used as a tourism guide for Chinese visitors arriving at McCarran International Airport.

Cindy Wang’s whole life is on WeChat. Through the Chinese everything app, the 24-year-old shops for clothing and sends photos and audio messages to her grandma and uncle in Guangzhou. It’s how she ...

For Zhang Lianping, a 72-year-old retired small business owner in College Park, Maryland, WeChat is a lifeline for staying in touch with relatives, old classmates and friends spread across Beijing, ...

WeChat is the most widely used communication and social media platform in China. It has roughly 1 billion active users who typically spend over an hour per day using the app. Need to send a message, ...

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U.S. government restrictions that could effectively make the popular app WeChat nearly impossible to use are being challenged in federal court. For Mei Li, culture and community director at the ...

While a federal judge has temporarily blocked a ban of WeChat from US app stores, there are other messaging and social media apps out there. Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, ...

Australian Signals Directorate director-general Abigail Bradshaw agreed that information that is private or personal could be ...

A group of California WeChat users sued Tencent Holdings Ltd., the Chinese owner of the messaging and payment app, for allegedly violating their right to privacy by surveilling and censoring their ...