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Meta is temporarily shutting Threads down in Turkey on April 29th.
Because of a temporary injunction (PDF) from the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA), which ruled that linking Threads and Instagram data without user opt-in abuses Meta’s social media dominance. Turkish Threads users can either delete their profiles or deactivate them until / if the service gets turned back on.
TechCrunch notes the country had previously fined Meta $18.6 million in 2022 for data-sharing across its apps.
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