{"id":2616,"date":"2021-01-10T13:13:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T13:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2021-01-10T13:13:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T13:13:08","slug":"americas-facebook-blocks-hundreds-of-musevenis-supporters-accounts-as-nrm-government-hits-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/americas-facebook-blocks-hundreds-of-musevenis-supporters-accounts-as-nrm-government-hits-back\/","title":{"rendered":"AMERICA\u2019S FACEBOOK BLOCKS  HUNDREDS OF MUSEVENI\u2019S SUPPORTERS ACCOUNTS AS NRM GOVERNMENT HITS BACK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Uganda government officials have strongly warned foreign agents that they will not be allowed to destabilize the country and install a puppet government three days to the general elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>This follows America\u2019s Facebook owned by Mark Zuckerburg disabling hundreds of President Yoweri Museveni\u2019s and \u00a0National Resistance Movement supporters . the company has not given reasons for its unilateral decision to block accounts of people who are supporting Gen Museveni to lead Uganda for another term . \u00a0<br><br> Given the scientific nature of this year \u2018s elections \u00a0millions of Ugandans have taken on Facebook and other Social and new media platforms to campaign for their respective candidates . the social media has also been awash with fake news as political opponents try to out do each other . \u00a0<br><br> Others who have been  affected include a once Bobi Wine\u2019s blogger turned NRM supporter Ashburg Kato who has since been told, \u201cif you think your account was disabled by mistake you can submit more information before 30 days elapse from when your account was disabled.\u201d \u00a0 <br><br>President Museveni \u2018s Press Secretary , Don Wanyama said the Facebook move to block accounts belonging to Museveni and the NRM Party supporters was the work of \u201c foreign forces\u201d that are working day and night \u00a0to oust the three-decade President Museveni. \u00a0<br><br> \u201cShame on the foreign forces that think they can aid and plant a puppet leadership on Uganda by disabling online accounts of @NRMOnline supporters. You can take away your platforms, you won&#8217;t take away @KagutaMuseveni votes.#IWillVoteM7#SecuringYourFuture,\u201d Don Wanyama (@nyamadon) tweeted on \u00a0January 9, 2021. <br><br> \u00a0Duncan Abigaba the Deputy Head, Government Citizen Interaction Centre for citizens under the Ministry of ICT whose account was also blocked said pro-government supporters&#8217; accounts were disabled on the basis of political disagreements. \u00a0 <br><br>\u201cHello @Facebook , you have blocked thousands of pro Government accounts in Uganda. Just to let you know that Uganda will hold a general election on 14th January, 2020. Perhaps these accounts were reported on the basis of political disagreements. Kindly look into this,\u201d Duncan Abigaba (@DuncanAbigaba) \u00a0stated . \u00a0 Museveni\u2019s main opponent Robert Kyagulanyi\u2019s supporters mainly from the diaspora have been very vocal on social media as they promote their candidate. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" src=\"\"><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda government officials have strongly warned foreign agents that they will not be allowed to destabilize the country and install<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/facebook.png","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2712,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/government-restores-social-media-services-ict-minister-nabakooba\/","url_meta":{"origin":2616,"position":0},"title":"GOVERNMENT RESTORES SOCIAL MEDIA SERVICES -ICT MINISTER NABAKOOBA","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"February 11, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Government has restored social media services after it shut down the Internet \u00a012th January 2021 to avoid violence during the elections period. 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