Delete Facebook , Boycott Zuckerberg and Facebook We Need To Talk began trending on rival site Twitter today as fury at the move spread around the globe.
Facebook is taking money from China to promote Communist propaganda which denies atrocities against the Uyghur Muslims, an investigation has revealed.
The Silicon Valley behemoth pocketed Beijing s cash to promote articles which downplayed what Washington has called a genocide in Xinjiang, according to The Press Gazette.
China Daily and CGTN – the state-backed TV channel recently banned in the UK – have paid Mark Zuckerberg s firm just a few hundred dollars a time to promote posts to millions of users.
It comes as Facebook, worth £560 billion, was today accused of going to war with democracy as it banned Australians from sharing and accessing news on its website after Sydney threatened to force it to pay media companies for using their content.
#DeleteFacebook was trending today as fury at the firm s decision to ban news in Australia spread globally, with one US politician saying site is not compatible with democracy .