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Members of Ethiopia’s LGBTQ+ community say they face a wave of online harassment and physical attacks and blame much of it on the social media platform TikTok, which they say is failing to take ...
On 20 or 21 July 2022, [14] [9] about 500 al-Shabaab fighters [8] crossed the border at Yeed [9] from Somalia's Bakool into Ethiopia's Afder Zone. [14] The invading force reportedly mostly consisted of militants recruited from Ethiopia itself. [8] Al-Shabaab's "Ethiopian Front", led by Ali Diyaar, was known to have taken part in the operation. [3]
The government responded to the incident by blocking some social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Telegram, Messenger, and TikTok on 9 February, with VPN service only available to access these sites. According to UK-based VPN organization TOP10VPN, Ethiopia's usage to VPN servicing reached to 1,430% as of 10 February. [1]
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Charli D'Amelio was the most-followed TikTok user for over 2 years, before being surpassed by Khaby Lame. The following table lists the accounts that were once the most-followed on TikTok, excluding the official TikTok account. Before Khaby Lame became the most-followed TikTok user on 22 June 2022, Charli D'Amelio was
In Ethiopia, the Internet penetration rate is 25% as of January 2022, and it is currently attempting a broad expansion of access throughout the country. [1] These efforts have been hampered by the largely rural makeup of the Ethiopian population and the government's refusal to permit any privatization of the telecommunications market. [1]
In his January 7, 2022 tweet, John Scott-Railton described how a person was "being rage farmed" when they responded to an inflammatory post with an equally inflammatory quote tweet since algorithms on Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook and other social media platforms, reward posts that attract engagement by amplifying the posts. [1]
The Tigray war [b] was an armed conflict that lasted from 3 November 2020 [a] to 3 November 2022. [45] [46] It was a civil war [47] that was primarily fought in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia between forces allied to the Ethiopian federal government and Eritrea on one side, and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) on the other.