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Twitter Removes 3,500 State-Sponsored Propaganda Accounts
Twitter has reportedly removed 3,465 accounts used for “state-backed information operations” linked to six countries: China, Mexico, Russia, Tanzania, Uganda and Venezuela. 2,048 of the total accounts deleted were linked to a Chinese Communist Party, reporting the treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang province, according to a statement published on Thursday. Another 112 removed accounts were…
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Special Report: Zuckerberg’s Monopoly And Its Consequences
Three major social media services owned by Mark Zuckerberg suffered an outage around the world on Monday, October 4, 2021, causing varying financial losses for not just the users but for Zuckerberg. According to Bloomberg, Mark Zuckerberg lost more than $6 billion in personal wealth as the Facebook stock crashed by 4.9%, in addition to…
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How Countries Are Losing ‘dollars’ To Twitter Ban
Nigeria Since the Federal government has banned the operation of Twitter in Nigeria, the country has cumulatively lost over N200 billion. The ban which took effect in the country on June 5 has reached 3 months of shutdown. This figure was calculated based on the NetBlocks Cost of Shutdown Tool which reported that it costs…
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Nigeria Loses Over N150 Billion 2 Months After Twitter Ban
NetBlocks Cost of Shutdown Tool has been used to estimate the billion naira loss for the Nigerian economy 2 months after President Buhari’s administration banned the microblogging platform Twitter. According to the tool, Nigeria’s economy loses N102.7 million per hour to the Twitter ban. This translates to an N150.5 billion revenue loss within 61 days,…