This is Source Notes, a column about the internet’s information ecosystem.

DeepSeek, the explosive new artificial intelligence, tool that took the world by storm, has code hidden in its programming ...

Across Europe, centrist parties increasingly paint even mild social democracy as a “radical left” threat. The wild rhetoric ...

Texas has banned the use of DeepSeek, RedNote, Lemon8, and a few Chinese stock-trading apps from government devices.

The head of France's far-right National Rally party says he doesn't support a no-confidence motion filed against the ...

France's prime minister has used special executive powers to get the 2025 budget approved without a vote by lawmakers.

Hyper-criminalized migrant sex workers show us how everyday people evade, defy and resist state control and punishment.

China's government is still developing a formal law on generative AI. A set of "Interim Measures" requires that AI respects ...

Tech from Chinese AI firm DeepSeek is being banned in many countries. Here's all the governments and agencies that have ...

Some responses were candid, others disappeared moments later — but all revealed something about the state of the Catholic ...

Amid U.S. issues with the social media app TikTok, Gov. Greg Abbott prohibited access of several Chinese-based apps on state ...

In the first non-combatant killing of the year, terrorists shot dead an ex-serviceman and injured his wife and 13-year-old ...