After Facebook’s suspension of some Ugandan accounts, followed by the authorities’ shutdown of social media and then the entire internet, the BBC’s Dickens Olewe looks at the wider implications for Uganda, and elsewhere in Africa.
Facebook has said it was trying to implement its rules but that is not how President Yoweri Museveni saw it.
“There is no way anybody can come [here] and play around with our country and decide who is good [and] who is bad,” he said as he railed against the company’s decision to remove accounts linked to the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) just days before Thursday’s general election.
The president accused Facebook, which he and other candidates had been using to campaign, of “arrogance”.