Ethiopia shuts down social media to keep from ‘distracting’ students

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — It started over the weekend, when social media applications on Ethiopian phones and computers stopped working. Then, on Monday afternoon, the entire Internet shut down for nearly 24 hours. The next day it was running again, but Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Viber and other social media apps were still blocked along with What’s App and […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/07/13/ethiopia-shuts-down-social-media-to-keep-from-distracting-students/