Omar and Hana infuse teachings from the Quran with colourful animation.
State telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor gives Twitter an extra month to remove "illegal content" or face a complete blockage in Russia.
Turkey's new social media regulations require social media platforms with more than one million unique daily users to appoint representatives who can handle court orders to take down offending content within 48 hours.
Iranian social media has been awash with criticism of new music video by popular underground Iranian singer, “Sasy,” who over the years has become known for contentious lyrics that Iran's conservatives see as tainting the country's moral probity.
Hundreds of thousands of videos uploaded by Syrian activists were removed following the introduction of automated software in 2017 to detect and delete objectionable content.
Senegalese police clashed with protesters in several neighbourhoods in the capital Dakar, including in front of a courthouse where an opposition leader made his first appearance since his arrest on a rape charge.
Facebook says it will assign a legal entity in Turkey in a bid to comply with legislation enacted last year by the country.
Trump's access to social media platforms has been largely cut off since a violent riot comprised of his supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington DC last week.
Twitter blocks Trump for 12 hours and Facebook for 24 over policy and rule violations.
The bill's authors said YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram had failed to remove hundreds of URL pages containing prohibited content, as required by Russian law.
YouTube legal entity in Turkey will serve as local representative in line with Turkey’s social media law, which went into effect on October 1.
According to outage monitoring website DownDetector, more than 12,000 YouTube users were affected in various parts of the world after Alphabet’s services were hit by an outage.
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