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[ad_1] Meta on Thursday said that tens of millions of people in Iran are using Instagram despite government efforts to block the service due to months-long protests. Iran has been rocked by citizen outrage since the September 16 death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini following her arrest for an alleged breach of dress rules for women. "Instagram has been widely used by Iranians to shed light on the protests and the brutal response to them," Meta president of global affairs Nick Clegg said during a briefing. "People have also shared Instagram footage of the protests with international media outlets, many of whom can't report directly from Iran." Protests triggered by Amini's death resulted in authorities clamping down on speech and freedom of assembly, and limiting the use ...

[ad_1] Iran is imposing severe restrictions on access to the internet, in a bid to limit the sharing of footage of protests . Iran is imposing increasingly severe restrictions on access to the internet, albeit still short of a total shutdown, in an apparent bid to limit the sharing of footage of protests which have erupted nationwide, activists charge.Campaigners and Persian-language television channels outside Iran have noted a reduction in the posting of footage of the protests filmed on mobile phones, almost two weeks into the movement that erupted following the death of Mahsa Amini. The authorities have already restricted access to Instagram and WhatsApp -- until now the last remaining unfiltered social media services -- ...

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