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, ...

The Trump administration’s executive order to curb the use of the mobile app WeChat, which will be banned from app stores beginning Sunday, has become a flashpoint in the deepening standoff between ...

As Australia prepares for its election, campaigning is heating up on China’s biggest social messaging platform. It’s the first time, social media experts say, that politicians from both of Australia’s ...

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.

WeChat is best known as China's all-purpose "super-app." It is used for everything from messaging and mobile payments to ...

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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 ...

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 has been waging a months-long campaign against two popular mobile apps, WeChat and TikTok, over their Chinese ownership. It began with an Aug. 6 executive order calling for ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...