“Eight arrested in Ankara for anti-refugee social media posts

Some frame these arrests in terms of freedom of expression, but I believe some accounts incited hatred. One of my former students was detained, but he was released. His Twitter account was on the verge of provoking but kept its newsworthiness instead of shifting to the dark side. We need to discuss the refugee crisis without falling into hate traps.

Twenty-seven people, social media account managers of the internet news portals Aykırı Haber, Muhbir, and Haber Report among them, were detained in 13 provinces on charges of “publicly inciting hatred and enmity” and “publicly disseminating misleading information.”

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has initiated the operation and said, in a statement released today, that “hate speech was used on the internet and social media “publicly inciting hatred and enmity” and “publicly disseminating misleading information,” as identified through open-source research.

Eight arrested in Ankara for anti-refugee social media posts


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