Turkey's independent media on alert over stance of tech giants

The impartiality of the tech companies has come under scrutiny after the opposition politician Ekrem Imamoglu was jailed and his social media account was cancelled. AP - Francisco Seco

As Turkey slipped further down in the latest Press Freedom Index, the country's besieged opposition and independent media are voicing concerns that some of the tech giants are increasingly complicit in government efforts to silence them.

While protests continue over the jailing of the Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, his account on social media platform X has been cancelled.