New Zealand Has One Of The World's Oldest Parliaments. But Facebook Thought Its Page Was Fake

So they took it down. For nearly a week.

Hi, everyone. So. New Zealand is a small (but great) country.

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This is its parliament. It was established in 1854 and is one of the oldest continuously functioning parliaments in the world.

(Sidenote: This building has not been around since the 19th century.)

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On July 20, the New Zealand Parliament's official Facebook page was taken down entirely by the international social media network.

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The page, which has just over 500 followers, remained down all of that week.

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Author: Rose Troup Buchanan
Published at: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 13:17:34 -0400

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