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Côte d'Ivoire: Laurent Gbagbo Facebook Fan Page Deleted

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Cote d'Ivoire, Citizen Media, Politics, Protest, Technology

Claudus Kouadio revealed in a blog post [1] [fr] on March 23, 2011, that the Facebook fan page of Laurent Gbagbo – the incumbent Côte d'Ivoire president who refuses to step down after losing the 2010 presidential election – has been deleted. The memory cache [2] of the page on the social networking site shows that nearly 32,000 people had chosen to ‘like’ it.