{"id":24541,"date":"2021-06-17T09:39:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T06:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=24541"},"modified":"2021-06-17T09:39:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T06:39:52","slug":"facebook-shuts-ethiopian-accounts-for-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/17\/facebook-shuts-ethiopian-accounts-for-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Shuts Ethiopian Accounts For \u2018Fake News\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Facebook has shut down a network of accounts in Ethiopia which it says are linked to the country\u2019s cyber-security agency, accusing it of posting false and misleading content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ethiopia\u2019s Information Network and Security Agency was co-founded and formerly led by the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decision to remove the accounts comes five days ahead of the country\u2019s national elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Facebook said the pages and groups were part of a network focused on national news and current affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The accounts were used to post spam and misleading content, as well as criticism of opposition parties and groups, the tech giant said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That includes the Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF), which has been in conflict with the country&#8217;s defence forces in the northern region of Tigray for the last seven months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government is yet to respond to Facebook&#8217;s move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC News Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has shut down a network of accounts in Ethiopia which it says are linked to the country\u2019s cyber-security agency, accusing it of posting false and misleading content. Ethiopia\u2019s Information Network and Security Agency was co-founded and formerly led by the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. The decision to remove the accounts comes five days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":24543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[4365,150],"class_list":["post-24541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-ethiopia","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24544,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24541\/revisions\/24544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}