Gabon cuts off Facebook, TikTok after protests

Gabon's media regulator on Tuesday announced the suspension of social media platforms until further notice, saying that online posts were stoking conflict. The High Authority for Communication imposed "the immediate suspension of social media platforms in Gabon", its spokesman Jean-Claude Mendome said in a televised statement. He said "inappropriate, defamatory, hateful, and insulting content" was undermining "human dignity, public morality, the honour of citizens, social cohesion, the stability of the Republic's institutions...