NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s ethnic cohesion watchdog has given Meta’s Facebook seven days to comply with regulations after a report of violations on the social media platform in relation to next month’s election.
Advocacy group Global Witness said in a report published on Monday that Facebook had accepted and carried more than a dozen political advertisements which ran afoul of Kenyan ethnic cohesion rules.
There was no immediate response from Meta’s Kenya office after the ultimatum issued by Kenya’s National Cohesion and Integration Commission.
The company issued a statement on July 20 saying it had removed hateful content from its platform ahead of the election scheduled on Aug. 9.
(Reporting by Duncan Miriri and George Obulutsa; editing by Jason Neely)
