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Nigeria Suspends Twitter Indefinitely After President's Tweet is Deleted
Friday June 4, 2021. 06:26 PM , from Slashdot/Apple
The Nigerian government suspended all Twitter operations in the country on Friday. From a report: Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Nigerian minister of information and culture, said the decision stemmed from citizens using the platform for activities 'capable of undermining Nigeria's corporate existence,' according to a press release. The move follows Twitter's decision to remove a post by Nigeria's president Muhammadu Buhari that threatened to punish those responsible for recent attacks on electoral offices and police stations, and referenced the country's 1960s civil war that killed 1 million people, Reuters reported. 'Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand,' Buhari said in a tweet before Twitter removed the post for violating its 'abusive behavior' policy.
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