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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
World
Alice Peacock

Twitter blocked in Turkey amid fears of disinformation following deadly earthquakes

Twitter has been blocked on a number of networks across Turkey in the wake of the deadly earthquakes that have killed more than 9,500 people.

Twin earthquakes — the first a magnitude 7.8 and the second a 7.5 — hit Turkey and neighbouring Syria, on Monday. Tens of thousands of people are injured and missing and the there are still daily tremors causing thousands of families' homes to crumble.

Internet-monitoring group NetBlocks said on Wednesday that Twitter had been blocked on several networks across Turkey, with the filtering having been applied on major internet providers.

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