AFP: Turkish internet bites back at state after deadly quake

AFP: Turkish internet bites back at state after deadly quake. “Nothing is ever deleted or forgotten on the internet. Turkish officials learned that the hard way when grieving users began sharing old tweets and videos embarrassing for the government after last week’s disastrous earthquake.” Do you remember that in 2016, the Turkish government seized the newspaper with the widest national circulation and deleted its archives? I wrote an article about it. But it’s a lot harder to delete social media.