Social Media Statement from Director of Communications Altun

It has been on Turkey’s agenda for the last few days Closing Instagram There was. Access to the platform within Meta was blocked by BTK’s decision on Friday, August 2. While it was stated that the decision was taken due to catalog crimes, today’s meetings did not yield any results. Unfortunately, the giant platform is still inaccessible in our country.

While discussions about the closure of Instagram continue, Director of Communications From Fahrettin Altun explanations came. Altun criticized social media platforms around the world.

“We need to produce local and national social media platforms”

While Altun used the expressions “digital fascism regime” in his statement, he stated that social media companies started to direct the global communication flow within an ideological framework, and that they spread falsified information, produce disinformation, and that these are violations of human rights.

Later in Turkey Establishing local and national social media platforms He stated that it was necessary. He added that the private sector has a lot of work to do in this regard. Altun’s statement is as follows:

“Just as our local and national media organizations emerged in this process, just as brands were produced, similar ones need to be produced in the digital field, in the digital media field. I would like to call out to the owners of conventional media companies, ‘Come, invest much more in new media, digital media.’ I’m not just talking about content production, I’m talking about the construction of local-national social media platforms. The social media platforms we face are private companies. After investing in this field, they have found a wide field for themselves and unfortunately, they have deepened the injustice and truth crisis in the global arena. We need to produce local and national social media platforms. At this point, our private sector has a very serious role. The success of our TV series industry in the world is obvious. As long as we believe in this, we should do everything we can. “We are ready to provide facilitation in this process.”

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