Papua New Guinea bans Facebook for a month to root out ’fake users’
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/29/papua-new-guinea-facebook-ban-study-fake-users
Analysts will explore how fake news and pornography spreads, and assess whether country needs its own version of the platform The Papua New Guinean government will ban Facebook for a month in a bid to crack down on “fake users” and study the effects the website is having on the population. The communication minister, Sam Basil, said the shutdown would allow his department’s analysts to carry out research and analysis on who was using the platform, and how they were using it, admits rising (...)
