ISTANBUL — Turkish internet rights activist Yaman Akdeniz got a call from Facebook’s London office Monday in which the company’s human rights team said it would not comply with a controversial social media law passed in Ankara this summer.
The bill requires social media companies with more than 1 million daily users in Turkey to appoint representatives in the country, store user data locally and comply with state content removal requests, among other measures, by Oct. 1 or face steep fines and domestic access blocks on their platforms.