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- Facebook snuck past China’s firewall with a secret app – and nobody noticed
Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Friday 11 August 2017
Facebook and its family of apps been banned in China for years, but it appears the company found a way to get past the countries Great Firewall. The New York Times reports Facebook snuck an app called ‘Colorful balloons’ through – without anybody noticing. The company went through some hoops to get it done too. Facebook approved the app’s back in May, and published it in China by using a local developer called Youge Internet Technology. There’s no indication that the app has anything to do with Facebook, other than the fact it looks very similar to Facebook’s Moments app.…
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