WeChat’s unfair advantages WeChat didn’t start from scratch. Tencent was already the social networking king of China with QQ, a messenger akin to ICQ that took off in the PC age.

WeChat is owned by the Chinese tech giant Tencent. The app, with 1.26 billion users worldwide, is popular with residents in China and members of the Chinese diaspora, who use it to chat with ...

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison's Liberal Party lost access to his official WeChat social media account months ago, politicians said on Monday, issuing claims of censorship, while the ...

CBS News Pittsburgh COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - State workers in Ohio will be banned from using TikTok, WeChat and other Chinese-owned social media apps on state-issued devices over concerns that ...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 30 — Meta platforms including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, along with Google's YouTube have yet to ...

Then his public WeChat social media account was suspended for six months. Mr. Liu is one of a number of Chinese intellectuals who have voiced their concerns about the online condemnation of ...

Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s shares rose to their highest since 2021 after DeepSeek, the AI service that’s shaken up the industry since its emergence this year, debuted on the big tech company’s ...

The following day, a hitherto-obscure account on China’s ubiquitous WeChat social media platform that merely reposted the translation of Mr. Qin’s op-ed, without comment or any other frills ...

Tencent-owned (0700.HK) WeChat said that it would soon begin testing the setting, which applies only to users of its "public platform", where they may comment on news, essays and other written ...

The agency handling Morrison's social media account lost access to it last July, and emailed WeChat on Jan. 10 saying it acted on behalf of the Prime Minister, and requesting the account be ...