Another social media giant, Facebook, has deleted a post against the South East region of Nigeria by President Muhammadu Buhari via his official page.
This comes a few days after Twitter deleted the same tweet from the president’s handle for violating its terms and conditions.
However, on Friday, Facebook said the post was deleted for violating its community standards against inciting violence, Daily Post reports.
“In line with our global policies, we’ve removed a post from President Buhari’s Facebook page for violating our Community Standards against inciting violence.
“We remove any content, from individuals or organizations that go against our policies on this platform,” Facebook Spokesperson stated.
Reacting, former Presidential aide, Reno Omokri, commended the platform for the decision to delete the president’s post.
“The social media giant has also taken down the tyrant’s genocidal post. We are grateful to Mark Zuckerberg.
However, on Friday, Facebook, following reports from many Nigerian users, removed the same post from its platform.
Although the post is no longer available on Mr. Buhari’s timeline, it is sustained on other Facebook accounts including his aide’s, Femi Adesina.
It is, however, unclear if the Nigerian government would suspend the operations of Facebook as it did to Twitter earlier today for bringing down the same statement.
In a statement issued on Friday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, announced the suspension of Twitter, citing the alleged use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence.
According to the statement signed by a special assistant to the Nigerian President, office of the minister, Segun Adeyemi, the minister said the Federal Government has also directed the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to immediately commence the process of licensing all social media operations in Nigeria.
Mr Mohammed had earlier claimed the social media site’s response to Nigeria was “suspect”.
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