Turkey launches a review of how social media platforms handle children's data as it prepares new rules that include identity verification and age restrictions
Turkey launches a review of how social media platforms handle children's data as it prepares new rules that include identity verification and age restrictions
Turkey's data protection watchdog has opened a review of how six major social media platforms process children's personal data …
Google says it revised its Android Earthquake Alerts algorithm after it failed to send the highest-level Take Action warnings to 10M people in Turkey in 2023
Google has admitted its earthquake early warning system failed to accurately alert people during Turkey's deadly quake of 2023.
Russia's Roskomnadzor regulator bans Discord, drawing ire from the Russian military, which has extensively used the app to coordinate units in Ukraine
The ban has also renewed a wider debate about how Russia's bureaucratic machine keeps frustrating the military effort.
Turkey bans Roblox, after blocking Instagram on August 2; a Turkish official said the ban was primarily related to sexual content that could lead to child abuse
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Meta plans to temporarily shut down Threads in Turkey from April 29 to comply with an interim order prohibiting data sharing between Threads and Instagram
To comply with an interim order of the Rekabet Kurumu/Turkish Competition Authority (TCA), we will shut down Threads in Türkiye from Monday 29 April.
Ahead of Turkey's May 14 presidential election, Twitter restricts access to some content “in response to legal process and to ensure Twitter remains available”
Twitter announced on Friday that it's blocking some content in Turkey ahead of Sunday's presidential election in the country.
A YouTube channel run from Germany by exiled Turkish journalists was shut down due to copyright claims from Turkey; one expert blames YouTube's Turkey office
A YouTube channel run from Germany by exiled Turkish journalists was shut down due to copyright claims from Turkey; one expert blames YouTube's Turkey office
Cevheri Güven / Turkish Minute : Tweets: @csagir2015 See also Mediagazer Tweets: Celil / @csagir2015 : What the f. r you doing @YouTube ? Erdoğan's censorship now targeting media outlets in Europe ht...
Source: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok were each fined $1.2M by Turkey for failing to appoint a local representative as required by a new law
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