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      <title>India orders Apple and Google to pull Jack Dorsey's offline messaging app Bitchat</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Jack Dorsey said India ordered Apple to remove the Bluetooth mesh messaging app Bitchat from its App Store under Section 69A of the IT Act; the app has also vanished from Google Play and its website is unreachable across Indian ISPs.</description>
      <author>Priya Raman</author>
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      <source url="https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/03/jack-dorseys-bitchat-disappears-from-app-stores-in-india-after-government-order/">TechCrunch</source>
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      <title>US warns Australia's algorithm opt-out law would 'facilitate censorship'</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The Trump administration has warned that Australia's proposed social-media algorithm reforms would 'likely' be viewed by Washington as 'facilitating censorship', in a formal US Embassy submission late on Tuesday.</description>
      <author>James Calloway</author>
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      <category>United States</category>
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      <category>Anthony Albanese</category>
      <source url="https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-warns-australias-social-media-algorithm-reforms-risk-facilitating-censorship-2026-09-22/">Reuters</source>
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