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Meta to close Threads in Turkey to comply with injunction prohibiting data sharing with Instagram

Meta will "temporarily" shutter Threads in Turkey on April 29, in response to an injunction imposed by the country's competition authority.

More relevant to today’s news, however, was when Turkey hit Meta with a $18.6 million fine in 2022 for combining user data across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Meanwhile, Turkish regulators announced a renewed investigation in December over the way that Meta linked Threads with Instagram, concluding last month that there was a strong case to answer for. “We disagree with the interim order, we believe we are in compliance with all Turkish legal requirements, and we will appeal,” Meta wrote in a blog post today.

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