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Pressure on social media, messaging apps hits online freedom
Published Tue, Nov 15, 2016 · 09:50 PM
Washington
GOVERNMENTS around the world have stepped up efforts to block or censor social media and messaging applications, in a new blow to Internet freedom, a watchdog group said on Monday.
The Freedom on the Net report by the activist group Freedom House said that online freedom declined in 2016 for a sixth consecutive year amid new restrictions on messaging platforms such as WhatsApp in addition to social networks.
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