According to the Facebook communication, fake and duplicate accounts, allegedly close to the government, were used to manage pages, to comment on other people’s posts, and to share content to make it appear more popular. Among the personalities concerned, some members of the Ministry of Information and Communications and bloggers supporting President Yoweri Museveni. Given the imminence of the election, the American giant declared having “ acted quickly to investigate and bring down this network ».
For someone close to the government targeted by the closure of his account, Facebook’s action is unjustified. “There is no coordinated operation to interfere in the public debate “, did he declare. According to him, ” actions condemned by the social network, such as opening multiple accounts, are used individually by members of all political parties in Uganda, but only those in the majority have been targeted ».
Facebook says it discovered the practices were linked to the Citizen’s Interaction with Government Group, an agency of the Ministry of Information and Communications. Since 2017, according to the social network, a hundredoperations of this kind have been dismantled in the world.
President Yoweri Museveni is seeking a sixth term, his opponent is Bobi Wine, the singer turned deputy, now the main opposition candidate.
Source: Rfi
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