Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Facebook clone launched in North Korea


It's called "Best Korea's Social Network" and the homepage has a thin blue banner at the top with a search field for "people, #hashtags, !groups."

After you register for an account, you can upload a cover photo and profile picture, find friends and message them, post a status message and scroll through a News Feed. Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at Dyn, stumbled upon the site on Friday.


He suspects that someone in North Korea made it as a test, but finds the whole thing puzzling for several reasons.


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