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The Chinese authorities finally denied the social network a license that had originally been granted.
This is probably the shortest project in Facebook's history: twenty-four hours after Reuters revealed that Facebook had obtained a license to open a subsidiary in mainland China, Beijing withdrew this authorization.
The subsidiary was to be located in Hangzhou, the city that houses the headquarters of the large group of e-commerce Chinese Alibaba. Its main mission was to work on technological innovation. The social network had obtained the necessary authorizations from the local authorities, but the central organ of Internet control in China invalidated, Wednesday, July 25, the agreement it had obtained.
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Like Twitter and many other US social networks, Facebook is banned in China, and its site is blocked in the country. In recent years, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, who talks about the basics of Chinese, has visited Beijing several times and met with China's top officials.
Other US news companies technologies have opened similar subsidiaries in China, while their main services are prohibited. This is the case of Google, which opened a research and development center dedicated to artificial intelligence.
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