X Blocks Nearly 500 Accounts in Turkey Amid Posts on Fund Crisis

The social media platform X made nearly 500 accounts from journalists, economists, academics and other public figures inaccessible in Turkey in the past week, according to EngelliWeb, which monitors internet censorship in the country. While X didn’t specify why it had blocked the accounts, social media in Turkey has been flooded with posts on the fund crisis, including those criticizing the government’s handling.