China slams Facebook’s state media rules

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Topics () ( Facebook’s move comes while the company is under scrutiny for failing for stem foreign interference in the 2016 US election. ©AFP Olivier DOULIERY ) China said Facebook was unfairly targeting its biggest media companies on Friday after the network began attaching disclaimers to pages run by the country’s state-controlled news outlets. Pages managed by news agency Xinhua and the fiery nationalist tabloid Global Times are now labelled “China state-controlled media”, after a policy change by the world’s largest social platform. Facebook said it will add similar labels to pages and advertisements run by media outlets subject to...