{"id":2006873,"date":"2023-08-21T12:02:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T16:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/somalia-bans-tiktok-telegram-and-1xbet-over-horrific-content-misinformation\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T12:03:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T16:03:45","slug":"somalia-bans-tiktok-telegram-and-1xbet-over-horrific-content-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/somalia-bans-tiktok-telegram-and-1xbet-over-horrific-content-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia bans TikTok, Telegram, and 1XBet due to harmful content and misinformation."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsomalia-bans-tiktok-telegram-and-1xbet-over-horrific-content-misinformation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2006873&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Somalia Bans TikTok, Telegram, and 1XBet to Curb\u200d Spread of Indecent Content and Propaganda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an effort to limit \u2063the dissemination of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cardi-b-attacks-gop-congressman-who-criticized-broadcast-of-her-grammy-performance-this-gets-me-so-mad-ya-dont-even-know\/\" title=\"Cardi B Attacks GOP Congressman Who Criticized Broadcast Of Her Grammy Performance: \u2018This Gets Me So Mad Ya Don\u2019t Even Know!\u2019\">indecent content<\/a> and propaganda, Somalia has taken the decision to ban popular platforms such as TikTok, messaging app \u200cTelegram, and online betting website 1XBet. The country&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cuba-makes-it-illegal-to-criticize-government-on-social-media\/\" title=\"Cuba Makes It Illegal to Criticize Government on Social Media\">communications minister<\/a>, Jama Hassan Khalif, stated that\u200d these applications are being used by terrorists and immoral groups to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/somalia-bans-tiktok-telegram-and-1xbet-over-horrific-content-misinformation\/\" title=\"Somalia bans TikTok, Telegram, and 1XBet due to harmful content and misinformation.\">spread horrific images<\/a> and misinformation \u200cto the public.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Notably, members of the\u2063 insurgent group al\u2063 Shabaab frequently utilize\u2062 TikTok and\u200d Telegram to share \u2064information about\u200b their \u200cactivities. \u2064This ban comes shortly after Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud announced a military offensive against al Shabaab, with the goal of eliminating the al Qaeda-linked group within the next\u2064 five months.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the ban, Telegram released a\u200c statement \u2062affirming its\u2063 commitment to removing terrorist\u200c propaganda both in\u2063 Somalia and worldwide. The platform\u2063 also emphasized its active moderation of harmful \u200bcontent. However, TikTok and 1XBet have yet to\u2064 respond \u200cto Reuters&#8217; requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Internet service providers have \u200cbeen given until August 24th\u200c to comply\u2063 with the order.<\/p>\n<p>1XBet, known for its popularity in Somalia for betting,\u2062 particularly \u2063on soccer matches,\u2062 will be affected by the ban. Meanwhile, TikTok has faced\u2062 threats of bans in the United States due\u200d to alleged ties to the Chinese government. 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The move aims to curb the dissemination of indecent content, propaganda, and misinformation by terrorist and immoral groups, who exploit these platforms to circulate constant horrific images to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2006874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2006873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2006874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}