Instagram Banned
Turkey has banned Instagram. Meta’s photo and video sharing platform has been banned without giving any reason. Since then, millions of Instagram users have been upset. Many users are reporting about the ban of the app on social media platform X. If the reports are to be believed, this ban on Instagram has been imposed due to the death of Hamas’s big leader Ismail Haniyeh.
According to a Reuters report, the infotech regulator said that the social media platform Instagram has been banned without giving any reason. After the ban, Instagram’s mobile app is not working. Users are not able to log in to the app.
Because of this, the ban was imposed
Instagram blocked the condolence message on the death of Ismail Haniya, after which Turkiye’s communication officer Fahrettin Altun criticized the social media platform. Turkiye’s communication officer said that this is censorship. There has been no response from parent company Meta on the ban on Instagram in Turkiye.
Millions of users are upset
Due to this ban on Instagram in Turkey, millions of users are unable to log in to the app and website. At the same time, those who are already logged in to Instagram are unable to refresh their feed. Instagram has 50 million i.e. 5 crore active users in Turkey. More than 60 percent of the country’s total population of 85 million i.e. 8.5 crore people use this social media platform.
Many websites have been blocked before
Turkey has banned many websites before this. Earlier in April 2017 and January 2020, Turkey banned the popular website Wikipedia. Wikipedia was banned due to the information given on Wikipedia regarding the link between presidency and dictatorship.
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