Facebook, TikTok shut down in Equatorial Guinea

Facebook and TikTok have been inaccessible for more than two weeks in Equatorial Guinea, an AFP journalist said on Wednesday, after a video accusing the vice-president of corruption went viral.The authoritarian central African country, which has been ruled by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo since 1979, is regularly accused of repression of civil liberties.Internet speed has been restricted since September 2 and access to Facebook and TikTok — the country’s most popular onlin