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Pakistan is one of them. When Nabeel Khalid posted the rainbow flag on his profile picture, the reactions were appalling and reflective of a nation where religious conservancy and social ...
In this case a number of the Facebook personal profile pages represented causes, rather than real people. Facebook "offered to help convert the profiles to pages that are designed to represent companies, groups or causes." [95] The spokesperson went on to say that "the Met Police did not ask Facebook to take down this content." [95]
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The Facebook page's name "The Lions of Rojava" comes from a Kurdish saying which translates as "A lion is a lion, whether it's a female or a male", reflecting the organization's feminist ideology. [465] In recent years, Facebook's News Feed algorithms have been identified as a cause of political polarization, for which it has been criticized.
In July 2016, a young Pakistani man named Ihsan wrote an article in the UK-based gay e-zine Gay Star News about his experiences of being gay in Pakistan. He described Pakistani society and laws as hostile towards LGBTQ people. He wrote, "The status of LGBTI people, socially and legally, is at its worst. LGBTI people face prosecution by the state.
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The issue of Fake News in Pakistan has become an increasing issue in the 21st century, especially within the realm of social media. [1] The President of Pakistan, Arif Alvi, has penned an editorial for The News specifically condemning the plague of falsehoods that permeate the media and how it "created a deep sense of surprise and resentment in a population suffering from inflation and poverty".
Pakistan Today has a satirical column called Khabiristan Today.Since its material is often unfamiliar, its satire is sometimes lost on Western audiences. This was the case in 2014 when an article claiming the Pakistani Council of Islamic Ideology issued a proclamation stating all women are intrinsically weaker than men, was picked up by both internet and mainstream news sources.