Freedom House has scored Myanmar 9 out of 100 on its Freedom on the Net 2026 assessment, the same figure as the previous year, and its status remains “Not Free”, according to the organisation’s 2026 country page. The Irrawaddy, reporting on the result on 22 October 2026, says this is the third consecutive year at … Read more
On 2026-10-06, Shan Herald Agency for News, published through Burma News International (BNI), reported that the military authorities “appear” to have blocked TikTok in Myanmar. According to the BNI report, users across the country have not been able to load or upload videos without a VPN since late September 2026. The same report says neither … Read more
Instagram began allowing users to download publicly viewable Reels back in June, but the feature was initially limited to mobile Instagram users in the US. Instagram Head Adam Mosseri has now announced via his Broadcast Channel that the feature is being rolled out to Instagram users worldwide. With this feature, users can download Reels they … Read more
Twitter, the social media platform, has changed from twitter.com to X.com, and has also rebranded its iconic little blue bird logo into a new X-shaped logo. As part of this change, Twitter’s @Twitter account has now gone inactive, and can instead be found as @X. Elon Musk now owns X.com, and has also changed Twitter’s … Read more
Instagram, which has been introducing new features for users, creators has now introduced a new feature that allows users to save bookmark posts together with their friends. In previous days, users could only save contents as a collection when making a bookmark. Meanwhile the newly introduced function will now allow you to tag your friends … Read more