Turkey's parliament on Wednesday passed a controversial bill giving the government greater control of social media, a move criticized by human rights advocates as an attempt to increase online censorship.
Under the new law, social media giants such as Facebook and Twitter have to ensure that they have local representatives in Turkey and that they comply with court orders regarding the removal of certain content, or face heavy fines.
Human Rights Watch expressed concern that the law would enable the government to get content removed at will and to arbitrarily target individual users.
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