{"id":1127,"date":"2021-04-13T08:46:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T06:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/13\/facebook-isnt-interested-in-countries-like-ours-azerbaijan-troll-network-returns-months-after-ban\/"},"modified":"2021-04-13T08:46:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T06:46:05","slug":"facebook-isnt-interested-in-countries-like-ours-azerbaijan-troll-network-returns-months-after-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/13\/facebook-isnt-interested-in-countries-like-ours-azerbaijan-troll-network-returns-months-after-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Facebook isn\u2019t interested in countries like ours\u2019: Azerbaijan troll network returns months after ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>State-backed harassment campaign targets journalists and dissidents in authoritarian country<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Facebook has allowed a state-backed harassment campaign targeting independent news outlets and opposition politicians in Azerbaijan to return to its platform, less than six months after it banned the troll network.<\/p>\n<p>A Guardian investigation has revealed how Facebook allowed an arm of Azerbaijan\u2019s ruling party, the YAP, to carry out the harassment campaign for 14 months after an employee, Sophie Zhang, first alerted managers and executives to its existence in August 2019.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/apr\/13\/facebook-azerbaijan-ilham-aliyev\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ea531454ff4d45a8d0ed9182b43af8a59498ac06\/112_85_2838_1703\/master\/2838.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=24887ce5d66e41b49d5c1ee890974f65\" title=\"\u2018Facebook isn\u2019t interested in countries like ours\u2019: Azerbaijan troll network returns months after ban\" \/>State-backed harassment campaign targets journalists and dissidents in authoritarian country<br \/>\nFacebook has allowed a state-backed harassment campaign targeting independent news outlets and opposition politicians in Azerbaijan to return to its platform, less than six months after it banned the troll network.<br \/>\nA Guardian investigation has revealed how Facebook allowed an arm of Azerbaijan\u2019s ruling party, the YAP, to carry out the harassment campaign for 14 months after an employee, Sophie Zhang, first alerted managers and executives to its existence in August 2019. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-backed harassment campaign targets journalists and dissidents in authoritarian country Facebook has allowed a state-backed harassment campaign targeting independent news outlets and opposition politicians in Azerbaijan to return to its platform, less than six months after it banned the troll network. A Guardian investigation has revealed how Facebook allowed an arm of Azerbaijan\u2019s ruling party, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/13\/facebook-isnt-interested-in-countries-like-ours-azerbaijan-troll-network-returns-months-after-ban\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Facebook isn\u2019t interested in countries like ours\u2019: Azerbaijan troll network returns months after ban<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}