This will be a big step for Facebook development, as it made an app which will allow Chinese and Iran users to connect to Facebook. Chinese users will be able to use Facebook on mobile phone. More details will be found in this article. And we also provide service for app rank boosting, if you are interested to make your app rank top in the app store, feel free to contact us!

China and Iran have a combined population of 1.4 billion people, potential Facebook users that are otherwise off-limits. Facebook doesn't say it updated the app specifically to reach people in China and Iran. But the new feature is able to circumvent censorship on cell phone networks -- and that's really only useful to people living under authoritarian regimes. Starting this week, the mobile Facebook (FB, Tech30) app will pair up with the best online anonymity tool out there: Tor.

Tor is a system that encrypts and bounces Internet signals around the globe. It helps you evade censors when surfing the Web -- and it hides your computer's true location. Because of that, Tor is used by criminals to dodge law enforcement. But also protects people from tyrannical governments that track what they do online -- and punish them violently. There's a mobile app for Tor, called Orbot. Facebook tweaked its Google (GOOGL, Tech30) Android app so that you can tap a button in settings, and the Facebook app will automatically use Orbot to connect to the Internet.

That encrypts the connection, hiding it from network censors. Then it bounces your signal to computer servers around the world several times, so that Facebook doesn't even know your true location. Facebook said this project was started by a summer intern last year.

This is really just another step forward for a Facebook effort that began years ago. In 2014, Facebook did the same thing for desktop users. It created a special website portal for anyone using the Tor Web browser. But this latest move is potentially much more effective, because 88% of Facebook's 1 billion daily users use their phones to connect to the social media service.

China is a huge market that Facebook now has a better opportunity to tap. This experiment also shows Tor isn't just a tool for visiting illegal websites in the dark.

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