ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has emerged as No 1 country in the world for censoringcontent on the Facebook.
According to an analysis of the report released by the company on Friday,Pakistan has made 2,203 requests to Facebook for content restriction, thehighest in the world, during the first six months of 2018.
The country recorded more than 700 percent increase in such requests ascompared to corresponding period of the last year. Pakistan has about 36million Facebook users, according to the company data.
Talking to The News, digital rights activists attributed this rise incontent restriction to growing wave of censorship on traditional and socialmedia in Pakistan.
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However Chairman of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) MuhammadNaveed argued that government requests made to Facebook were related toissues like blasphemy, anti-state content and pornography.
