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Turkey fines Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok under new social media law

Turkey has fined Facebook, Twitter, Periscope, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram with 10 million lira each (US$1.18 million) for failing to comply with its new social media law. The penalty was imposed for the companies failing the specific requirement of appointing a local representative that would be answerable to the government and courts. have also been fined 10 million lira each. The fines, reported by Al Jazeera, were announced by Omer Fatih Sayan, chairman of Turkey's Information and Communication Technologies Authority on Twitter. The penalties are not unexpected, since they are laid out in the law, and given that Facebook had refused to comply when the law came into effect on October 1. If companies comply, Sayan said a quarter of the imposed fine will be collected. The new law requires that platforms with over 1 million daily users in Turkey store user data locally, appoint a local representative to be answerable to the government, respond to content complaints within 48 hours, and implement court orders within 24 hours, among other things. The legislation was passed by Turkey's parliament in July by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's governing Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and its ally Nationalist Movement Party. According to the law, as well as Sayan's reminders on Twitter, if the companies do not comply within another 30 days, they would be fined another 30 million lira each, which would be the second in a five-stage penalty for non-compliance. In another 30 days, the companies would be banned from advertising.…

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