This photo illustration shows a person trying unsuccessfully to connect to the Gapo social network app from his mobile phone in Hanoi on July 24, 2019. - Gapo, a homegrown Vietnamese social media app, was overloaded with users hours after launching as the one-party state tries to boost its own web platforms while tightening its grip on internet freedoms. (Photo by Nhac NGUYEN / AFP)
A homegrown Vietnamese social media app was overloaded with users hours after launching as the one-party state tries to boost its own web platforms while tightening its grip on internet freedoms.
Gapo has been billed as a local version of Facebook, which is wildly popular in communist Vietnam with more than 53 million registered users in the country of 95 million.
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