Myanmar blocks Twitter amid outrage at coup
08 February 2021 |
9:25 am
The new ruling junta in Myanmar has blocked access to Twitter and Instagram, after users flocked there in response to the military pulling the plug on Facebook. A popular messaging app was also experiencing outages.
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