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As Facebook expands, countries are increasingly interested in making content on the social network disappear
Censorship on Facebook increased 19% between the first six months of 2014 and the last six months of 2013, the company revealed on Tuesday. But censorship isn't distributed evenly; some countries are more trigger-happy than others when asking Facebook to remove content.
Facebook only removed some content in 15 of the 83 counties listed on the network's third transparency report. India leads the list of content removal; Facebook restricted 4,960 "pieces of content" from the country between January and June 2014. Turkey and Pakistan follow closely with 1,893 and 1,773 "pieces of content" removed, respectively Read more...
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