{"id":74927,"date":"2025-05-03T19:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T19:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=74927"},"modified":"2025-05-03T19:00:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T19:00:53","slug":"meta-threatens-to-cut-off-facebook-in-nigeria-over-huge-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/03\/meta-threatens-to-cut-off-facebook-in-nigeria-over-huge-fines\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta threatens to cut off Facebook in Nigeria over huge fines"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/999\/cpsprodpb\/ecf2\/live\/09753780-274c-11f0-8c66-ebf25fc2cfef.jpg\" alt=\"A phone screen showing a Facebook logo against a QWERTY keyboard\" width=\"515\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">People in Nigeria may lose access to Facebook and Instagram after parent company Meta said it faced large fines and &#8220;unrealistic&#8221; regulatory demands from the Nigerian authorities. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckgrwxp5r15o\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>People in Nigeria may lose access to Facebook and Instagram after parent company Meta said it faced large fines and &#8220;unrealistic&#8221; regulatory&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/facebook.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74928,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74927\/revisions\/74928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}