What We Know About Reported X Bans In Turkey—As Musk’s Company Says It Won’t Comply With Government Requests

What We Know About Reported X Bans In Turkey—As Musk’s Company Says It Won’t Comply With Government Requests

Turkey is having its largest protests in more than a decade after Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested and jailed.

Musk’s X Shuts Down Political Opposition Accounts in Turkey

X complied with 86% of the Turkish government's requests to take down content in the second half of 2024.

Musk’s X Suspends Turkish Opposition Accounts During Protests - News Facts Network

Elon Musk’s social media platform X has suspended several accounts linked to opposition figures in... The post Musk’s X Suspends Turkish Opposition Accounts During Protests appeared first on News Facts Network.

X’s head of engineering is out

X'€™s director of engineering, Haofei Wang, has suddenly left the company, according to sources with knowledge of the matter. Wang first joined Elon Musk'€™s X in July 2023 and has been an integral part of the company'€™s leadership, often serving as a conduit between Musk and the rest of the company'€™s engineers. More recently, he was seen internally as X'€™s defacto head of engineering and product, especially with Musk recently focusing more …

Elon Musk describes himself as an "absolutist of freedom of expression", but Twitter and X of all people support the Turkish administration in the systematic censorship of oppositionists. Massive protests are currently taking place against the government. (Read more)

By Cleber Lourenço Depending on the findings of inquiry 4957, which investigates the actions of digital militias and the non-compliance with judicial decisions by social media platforms, Supreme Federal Court (STF) ministers do not rule out the possibility of a new blockade of X (formerly Twitter) throughout the country. The information [...]