Facebook Has Another Problem in China
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China’s Great Firewall already prevents most people on the mainland from accessing Facebook. This week, China’s internet has been behaving bizarrely, leading to questions about whether Chinese internet regulators are tackling Facebook from an unusual new angle.
Starting this weekend, people on the mainland suddenly couldn’t navigate to many common websites, including gaming sites and news outlets like CNN.com and dailymail.co.uk. Instead they were redirected to totally unrelated pages — a site for open-source software called wpkg.org and a Polish couple’s travel blog, ptraveler.com. (This happened several times to Ad Age’s reporter in Shanghai, though the situation seemed to improve Tuesday.)
What does that have to do with Facebook? The redirection occurs when people try to reach websites that use a Facebook Connect button, which lets them log on using their Facebook account. A Facebook spokeswoman based in Asia said the company was investigating the situation.
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