“Today the country of politicking and corruption lost,” Rodolfo Hernández, a right-wing anti-establishment candidate, said in a Facebook message to his supporters, following Sunday’s results that put him in second place behind Gustavo Petro. nyti.ms
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Uganda’s president blocked Facebook in his country, a day after the company took down accounts and pages linked to his government that were allegedly trying to manipulate public debate before Thursday's election nyti.ms
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Pakistan’s government unveiled some of the world’s most sweeping rules on internet censorship. Instead of complying, global internet companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter threatened to leave the country. nyti.ms
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Sri Lankan authorities blocked social media, including Facebook and WhatsApp, amid a wave of bombings across the country on.wsj.com
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LinkedIn is a rare foreign internet company in a country that blocks Facebook, Google and other internet mainstays nyti.ms
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India’s government is asking Facebook for details about how it monitors and removes inflammatory content, following news reports and an article from WSJ saying company researchers had determined its services in the country are rife with such content on.wsj.com
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The mere fact that such a large protest happened at all — and led to the creation of a formal movement with a name and a Facebook page — is in itself extraordinary in a country where the opposition is barely existent. nyti.ms
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Authorities in Pakistan approved sweeping new regulations restricting social media, rules that would dramatically change the way companies such as Facebook and Twitter operate in the country on.wsj.com
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Facebook is cracking down on hate speech in Myanmar. But many in the country have accused the American social media giant of unwelcome meddling. nyti.ms
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Mark Zuckerberg rules his empire but politics is another country | Anne McElvoy trib.al
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Facebook agreed to pay Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp for its journalism content in Australia. The deal comes a month after Facebook temporarily blocked news links inside the country over legislation pressing digital giants to compensate publishers nyti.ms
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The mere fact that such a large protest happened at all — and led to the creation of a formal movement with a name and a Facebook page — is in itself extraordinary in a country where the opposition is barely existent. nyti.ms
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France will tax Facebook, Amazon and other U.S. digital giants, putting the country in the crosshairs of Trump's escalating trade wars nyti.ms
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Trump says he would like Google, Twitter and Facebook to treat conservatives more fairly: “They are really trying to silence a very large part of this country" on.wsj.com
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Facebook banned a Myanmar military television network page following Monday’s coup, the social media giant’s latest move in a country where its platform has been connected in previous years to physical violence on.wsj.com
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Facebook removed a group on its platform called “Stop the Steal” that was organizing protests of vote counts around the country and had grown to 361,000 members within 24 hours on.wsj.com
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In response to the unrest, Indonesia's authorities said on Wednesday that they would block some social media services, including Facebook and Instagram, in some areas of the country nyti.ms
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An Egyptian court sentenced a Lebanese tourist to eight years in prison on Saturday after a video tirade posted on her Facebook page — that Egyptian authorities felt insulted the country and its leader — went viral last month nyti.ms