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Facebook, Twitter say they are not heading to China

Washington : Top Facebook and Twitter executives told lawmakers yesterday they had no immediate plans to enter China. Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg dismissed any speculation that the leading platform was planning anything for China despite several high-profile

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Published 6 September 2018, 8:00 · Updated 22:13

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Facebook, Twitter say they are not heading to China

Washington : Top Facebook and Twitter executives told lawmakers yesterday they had no immediate plans to enter China. Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg dismissed any speculation that the leading platform was planning anything for China despite several high-profile visits there by chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.

Sandberg said reaching China’s large population would be important to Facebook’s mission of connecting the world but added that “in order to go into China, we would have to be able to do so in keeping with our values, and that’s not possible right now.”

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