Zuck’s meeting with propaganda chief could see Facebook unblocked in China

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by Sindy Cator on March 21, 2016 at 10:45 am

Mark Zuckerberg is famous for his casual approach to office attire, but the CEO made a rare exception to his usual dress code for a rare meeting with China’s propaganda chief Liu Yunshan this weekend. Facebook, like other US digital platforms, is blocked in the country so Liu effectively holds the keys to some 720 million new users, the largest internet nation, should he decide to relax regulation of social networks. That doesn’t initially seem a likely prospect, as AP reports, China is calling for a global Web “governance system” that would further help the country control what its citizens see on the internet. Facebook…