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Twitter cutoff in Turkey amid earthquake rescue operations: A social media expert explains the danger of losing the microblogging service in times of disaster

  • Written by Anjana Susarla, Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
imageRescuers work at a collapsed building in southeastern Turkey.AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili

Twitter was blocked in Turkey on Feb. 8, 2023, according to internet monitoring service NetBlocks. The outage came amid the massive rescue operation and humanitarian crisis in the aftermath of the earthquakes in southern Turkey and northern Syria two days earlier....

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