Ethiopia wants to build its own facebook

Ethiopia is building its own social media platform to “replace” Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Zoom. While the government does not plan to block any of the US-owned platforms, it wants to reduce reliance on foreign tech firms that meddle in the country’s politics, authorities said, amid an armed conflict between the federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front which has seen supporters of both sides wage information wars on social media, Reuters reports.