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Facebook accused of authoring censorship tool for China

on Nov 23, 2016 | 0 comments

By John Glenday

Facebook stands accused of acquiescing to Chinese censorship demands, going so far as to allegedly creating a tool which could be used to meet restrictions on political content imposed by the government.

The New York Times quotes current and former employees who suggest that the social media platform wrote custom software for just such a purpose, the existence of which it has so far refused to confirm or deny.

A spokeswoman did say that the company was yet to commit to a final approach in the territory, which Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has gone to great lengths to Read full story ›

Source: The Drum