According to data provided by Facebook, the number of monthly users passing through the Tor network to protect their privacy has passed the million mark for the first time.
Since October 2014, Facebook has offered secure access to its services directly in the Tor network. A .onion address was created (facebookcorewwi.onion), as well as another for mobile surfing (m.facebookcorewwi.onion). On Android, we can use Orbot.
Progress is important: according to a statement published by the Facebook teams, for this month of April 2016, more than a million Internet users connected to Facebook through Tor. By comparison, anonymous connections were estimated at 525 in June 000.
As for access to Facebook from the network, the figures are above all indicative of the censorship imposed in certain countries. You may not know it but internet censorship is widely applied in a few countries like China, Saudi Arabia, Burma, Syria, Iran, etc.
Using the Tor network is often the only way for some Internet users to access social networks in countries where censorship reigns.