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NAIROBI/KAMPALA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Uganda ordered an internet shutdown on the eve of the presidential election, groundnut seller Susan Tafumba’s trade collapsed.
The 34-year-old sells groundnuts at Kampala’s Nakawa market, but much of her business now comes through a mobile phone app that customers use to order goods to be delivered to them by motorcycle taxis.
“Usually the app gets us more profit than those people who come on a daily basis to the market, but we lost customers,” said Tafumba, one of countless small traders whose increasingly tech-dependent livelihoods were hit by the shutdown.
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This week, Twitter limited access to two of Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu’s tweets after they were reported by users for directing hate at the LGBT community, who he referred to as deviants .
In response, the Minister encouraged his followers to leave Twitter, which he claimed was censoring him, even though his tweets were still readable. His pinned tweet encourages followers to join him on his Telegram channel, where he posts news articles about claims that the United States was behind the failed 2016 coup d’etat.
On the instant messaging platform, users can t comment on Soylu s Telegram messages or report them. However, the minister continues to use Twitter still. Undeterred by the hateful conduct warnings, Soylu went on to post a screenshot of a since-deleted tweet by Devlet Bahçeli , where President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan s far-right coalition partner likened students protesting the appointment of a party loyalist rect
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FORT COLLINS, Co. – February 3, 2021 –
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