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Facebook is the most popular social network globally with close to 3.1 billion users worldwide as of July 2024.

Facebook is the most popular social network globally, according to Statista, with close to 3.1 billion users worldwide as of July.But the platform, owned by Meta, has been banned in a number of countries across the globe and is restricted or monitored by a number of others.In 2024, the countries in which Facebook is banned include China, North Korea, and Iran, according to the campaigning organization Index on Censorship. Uganda, Russia, and Turkmenistan have also banned Facebook.

While governments may justify such bans as necessary they also risk violating international human rights norms, which protect freedom of speech and access to information,' she said.She added that the 'repression of critical speech in particular violates article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,' which grants the right to freedom of opinion and expression, and access to information through any media and regardless of frontiers.

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