Ethiopia is developing a local competitor to “Facebook” and other social networking sites

Ethiopia has started developing a platform for social networking sites to compete with Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp, although it does not intend to ban the services of these global companies.

Shumiti Gezao, director general of the Information Network Security Agency, said the government wants its local platform to be “an alternative to Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Zoom.” Ban the services of these global companies.

Shumiti Jizao, director general of the Information Network Security Agency, said the government wanted its local platform to be “an alternative to Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Zoom”.

Since last year, Ethiopia has been locked in an armed conflict between the federal government and the Tigray Liberation Front, which controls the northern Tigray region.

Supporters of both sides waged a war of words against the other on social media.

He accused Facebook of deleting posts and accounts that he said “publish the true reality of Ethiopia.”

The Facebook social network faced increasing accusations of racism in its handling of several crises, the most recent of which was the escalation in Gaza and the Israeli attacks on the Strip.

And Facebook explained, in a statement at the time, that it had decided to establish an operations center to monitor content on its platforms, “Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp,” regarding the escalation in Gaza.

She pointed out that the center includes Arabic and Hebrew speakers, to identify content that violates Facebook’s policy.