{"id":2591,"date":"2021-08-23T15:39:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T13:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/23\/ethiopia-starts-building-local-rival-to-facebook\/"},"modified":"2021-08-23T15:39:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T13:39:59","slug":"ethiopia-starts-building-local-rival-to-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/23\/ethiopia-starts-building-local-rival-to-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia starts building local rival to Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government wants its own social media platform to replace Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp and Zoom<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia has begun developing its own social media platform to rival Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp, though it does not plan to block the global services, the state communications security agency has said.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia has been engulfed for the past year in an armed conflict pitting the federal government against the Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF), which controls the Tigray region in the country\u2019s north.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/23\/ethiopia-starts-building-local-rival-to-facebook\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d3d2e94b5e0a3d86df59a640e093e07e927c78d6\/0_167_4996_2998\/master\/4996.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ba484dcbdd3f9c015d96d2c785391273\" title=\"Ethiopia starts building local rival to Facebook\" \/>Government wants its own social media platform to replace Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp and Zoom<br \/>\nEthiopia has begun developing its own social media platform to rival Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp, though it does not plan to block the global services, the state communications security agency has said.<br \/>\nEthiopia has been engulfed for the past year in an armed conflict pitting the federal government against the Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF), which controls the Tigray region in the country\u2019s north. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government wants its own social media platform to replace Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp and Zoom Ethiopia has begun developing its own social media platform to rival Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp, though it does not plan to block the global services, the state communications security agency has said. Ethiopia has been engulfed for the past year in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/23\/ethiopia-starts-building-local-rival-to-facebook\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ethiopia starts building local rival to Facebook<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2592,"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\/2591"}],"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=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}