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Tanzanians were blocked from social media platform X on Wednesday after a police was hacked and used to falsely announce the president’s death, internet watchdog NetBlocks said.

The social media shutdown comes amid the disappearance of activists Boniface Mwangi of Kenya and Agather Atuhaire of Uganda following their arrest by Tanzanian police earlier this week.

They were in the country to attend the trial of opposition leader Tundu Lissu who is accused of treason ahead of elections in October.

On Wednesday, Tanzanians were unable to access X unless using a Virtual Private Network (VPN), an AFP correspondent said.

“Live metrics show X (formerly Twitter) has become unreachable on major internet providers in #Tanzania; the incident comes as a compromised police posts claims the President has died, angering the country’s leadership,” NetBlocks said in a statement late Tuesday.

Tanzania’s Minister of Information, Communications and Technology Jerry William Silaa confirmed the hack in parliament, adding that the YouTube of the country’s tax authority was also infiltrated.

“The reason these s were compromised is that their security protocols were not sufficiently robust. These s have since been restored,” Silaa said.

Police said they were hunting “the criminals who created and distributed the information” and warned the public against sharing the false messages.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/05/tanzania-shuts-down-x-after-hackers-falsely-announce-presidents-death/

ok

Lol

Imagine this happening in the time of Jonathan as president and Tinubu as opposition leader

A certain druggie of a useless president will soon do the same!

I expect some wailing bastards to come and cry on my mention!

Ahhhhh

Why shuting it down when they can deny the news . Fear of revolution I think.




Still available for Laravel, WordPress and PHP gig.

Hacked police . Interesting

Good, this toxic Elon Musk platform must fall.

Nigerian leaders should follow suit

Lol

The reason why Africa will always remains backward. Can this happen in sane society.

Woman president

Take note

Ok

Chai

Same abuse Goodluck Jonathan endured from Buhari, Tinubu, pulpit bandits along Lagos-ibadan express way and the chimpanzee at Enugu state with the evil elders/thieves from the northern part of the country, through the help of Useless Gov Ameachi of Rivers State and the ever hypocritical brown envelope journalist from Ibadan.

God will surely make una lives the same way Buhari/Tinubu turned this country to.


God and nature will forever judge us accordingly to our motives.

Sermwell:
A certain druggie of a useless president will soon do the same!

I expect some wailing bastards to come and cry on my mention!

Ageing is mandatory
Growth is optional.

Grow up.

Good for them.

Hackers Maybe Emi lo Kan Boys

They fear cos their hands is not clean

wellmax:


Ageing is mandatory
Growth is optional.

Grow up.

Stop wailing!! It's not good for your health!

Africa and waywardness is like 5&6, Tuel. IRE O

OK

Smh

This is very bad.

This was how one particular movement attempted to hack INEC server "247" time during last general election and same notorious movement has be running propaganda against our nation simply they couldn't succeed in hacking INEC server.