Facebook Removes Hungarian Pro-Government Newspaper Pages Weeks Before Election
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Several Facebook pages belonging to Hungarian pro-government county newspapers were rendered inaccessible on Friday, February 27th, in what could be a politically charged intervention just weeks before the country heads to the polls.
According to posts circulating on Reddit, the Facebook page of Bama.hu, the Baranya county outlet published by Mediaworks, disappeared after a user complaint. The complainant reportedly argued that the page contained "war threats," which Meta, Facebook's parent company, deemed to be in breach of its community standards.
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