Facebook lets Kazakh govt directly flag harmful content, joint statement says
ALMATY (Reuters) - Facebook owner Meta Platforms has granted the Kazakh government access to its content reporting system, after the Central Asian nation threatened to block the social network for millions of local users. The Nur-Sultan cabinet and Facebook said in a joint statement on Monday that the agreement, the first of its kind in the post-Soviet region of Central Asia, would streamline the process of removing content deemed illegal by Kazakhstan. The oil-rich nation's parliament in September started working on a bill that would let the government block social network and messaging apps ...