Is the Nigerian government’s Twitter ban more about controlling dissent than about regulating the platform?
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Technology minister says social media giant deliberately defied and failed to comply with new laws implemented in May.
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Banning Twitter will not solve the Nigerian government’s many problems.
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Eleven suspects arrested for luring girls and women into India’s sex trade using the social media platform.
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Lawsuit filed at ECOWAS court in Abuja calls for interim injunction restraining gov’t from implementing suspensi
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Abuja directs radio, TV stations not to use Twitter to gather information and tells them to de-activate their accounts.
