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Turkey has blocked Instagram amid a dispute over Hamas-related content

Instagram has been inaccessible in Tukrey since Friday morning. Meta hasn't publicly commented.

Turkish regulators didn’t specify why the block was in place but, as Bloomberg reports, the crackdown on Instagram appears to be related to its handling of Hamas-related posts on the platform. The biggest news stories this morning: Meta’s Threads has 200 million users, Don Lemon is suing Elon Musk and X, AI startup says scraping every song on the internet is ‘fair use’. Udio and Suno were sued in June, with major labels claiming they trained AI models by scraping copyrighted music from the Internet.

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