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Boston Calling: 17/10/2015 04:32 GMT: Corporate Diplomacy

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17/10/2015 04:32 GMT

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After battling the so-called Islamic State, Kurds find a new foe in Facebook

After battling the so-called Islamic State, Kurds find a new foe in Facebook.

A Kurdish activist in Stockholm runs a popular Facebook page devoted to saving the Syrian city of Kobane from Islamic State militants. But the page is under attack from Facebook administrators. We find out why Facebook targets the Kurds, and hear how the social media giant determines what is appropriate to publish. 

Also, the Volkswagen scandal as seen from an American dealer's point of view. We look at a new industry popping up in Guatemala that employs ‘searchers’ to connect adopted children with their birth parents. And we meet Christian Ray Flores, the man who supplied the soundtrack for Boris Yeltsin's Rock the Vote.

(Photo: The ‘Save Kobane’ Facebook page. Facebook routinely takes down its posts. Credit: Christopher Livesay)

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