> Twitter was heavily used to seek help by people in turmoil, even hundreds of people were posting from under the rubbles. The officials were claiming that everything was under control and they are helping everyone but people were posting videos showing the situation on the ground and the situation didn't look even close to being under control.
Social media is the first target no matter the country
The US do the exact same [1], they control them with CIA agents [1*], so it is easier for them to do profiling rather than blocking it
In fact, it's the first thing the US want to do for foreign apps, to ban them, just like with TikTok [2], they are recent talks about a global ban too
So we can't just throw the stone at Turkey, you have to examinate the situation, they had a terrorist attack in Istanbul in november [3], mossad agents doing shady things [4], wich btw gives flashbacks of the failed coup by the mossad [5] (imagine if the coup succeeded knowing how the Ukraine-Russia conflict developped and the current issues in Azerbaijan-Armenia, they dodged something sinister)
Twitter is known to be a place with lot of political activity, it's easy for a foreign country to spread misinformation, there are lot of noise
And Twitter is not the most popular social media app in Turkey, plus the population in that region is not tech savvy either
[1] - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/federal-agents-mon...
[1#] - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11562433/Facebook-r...
[2] - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/30/us-tiktok...
[3] - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63615076
[4] - https://www.aljazeera.com/program/al-jazeera-world/2023/1/11...
[5] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...