China orders Apple to remove WhatsApp, Threads, other apps in censorship move: report

Apple has removed popular messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal from its iPhone app store in China after the Chinese government ordered the company to do so, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

"We are obligated to follow the laws in the countries where we operate, even when we disagree," an Apple spokesperson told the Journal, confirming Chinese officials demanded the tech giant scrub a number of apps over national security concerns.

Citing a person familiar, the...