{"id":85211,"date":"2026-02-19T10:30:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85211"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:30:27","slug":"social-media-suspended-in-gabon-for-spreading-of-false-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/19\/social-media-suspended-in-gabon-for-spreading-of-false-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media suspended in Gabon for &#8216;spreading of false information&#8217;"},"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\/2048\/cpsprodpb\/1fd2\/live\/18f3be00-0c9a-11f1-ab92-c5c4ffbfd0e0.jpg\" alt=\"A display of popular social media apps including Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, WeChat, Telegram, Messenger and Snapchat, on a phone\" width=\"519\" height=\"292\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Gabon&#8217;s media regulator has announced the suspension of social media platforms &#8220;until further notice&#8221;, saying online content has fuelled conflict and deepened<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2rg2vndk1o?amp%3Bat_campaign=rss\">\u00a0Read 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>Gabon&#8217;s media regulator has announced the suspension of social media platforms &#8220;until further notice&#8221;, saying online content has fuelled conflict and deepened\u00a0Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85211","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\/2023\/09\/Sima-Gabon.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85211","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=85211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85212,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85211\/revisions\/85212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}