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Pakistan has asked a number of social media organisations to set up local offices within the country, but this is yet to happen. [ 1 ] Pakistan made global headlines in 2010 for blocking Facebook and other Web sites in response to a contest popularized on the social networking site to draw images of the prophet Muhammad .
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan's interior ministry said on Wednesday it had blocked access to social media platform X around the time of February's election on national security concerns ...
An important ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif demanded the government lift a two-month-old ban on the social media platform X, saying on Friday that it violates citizens' right to ...
Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, a prolific user of social media platforms, had been particularly impacted by this ban. This reliance on social media grew especially after the country's traditional media began censoring news about Khan and his party in the run-up to the election.
Social media users are claiming that no American social media company faces a ban in China. One user wrote, “Literally zero US social media companies are banned in China.” This claim is false.
The New York Times noted in a December 2016 article that fake news had previously maintained a presence on the Internet and within tabloid journalism in the years prior to the 2016 U.S. election. [8] Except for the 2016 Philippine elections , [ 10 ] prior to the election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump , fake news had not impacted the ...
In 2020 and 2023, the United States Government tried to ban social media app TikTok. The DATA Act would have banned the selling of non-public personal data to third party buyers. [75] The RESTRICT Act would allow the United States Secretary of State to review any attempt of a tech company to "sabotage" the United States.
Pakistan's largest province of Punjab is proposing a ban on all social media platforms for six days due to security concerns during thousands of religious processions which start next week, its ...