Facebook bans Mesopotamia Agency's page

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Facebook has banned the verified page of the Mesopotamia Agency (MA), which had more than 100,000 followers.

The agency said Facebook ignored its objections to the ban and accused it of censorship.

"Censoring almost all of our reports and blocking our posts even after a slight complaint, Facebook did not take any of our objections into account," said the agency.

MA opened a new page after the ban.

Reporting in Turkish, Kurdish and English, the agency frequently has its web pages banned by Turkey's authorities.

Another multilingual Kurdish news outlet, JinNews, was banned on Instagram last week for "violating community rules."

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