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News by Alexandra Steigrad, New York Post 25th Feb 2021 9:09 AM   Sheryl Sandberg and other top Facebook execs silenced a Kurdish group at the request of the Turkish government in a bid to protect its business in 2018, according to a new report. According to ProPublica, Turkey, which was launching a bloody military offensive against Kurdish minorities in neighbouring Syria, demanded that Facebook block posts from the People's Protection Units, a mostly Kurdish militia group that the Turkish government had targeted. If Face...

Unblocked after complying with the order but this wasn't the first time social media was blocked in turkey in recent years. it brings me to my question of the week. which of the following countries did not disrupt its citizens' use of twitter, facebook or youtube in 2014? according to those company's transparency reports. china, iran egypt or pakistan? stay tuned. we'll tell you the correct answer. this week's book of the week is a short history of nearly everything by bill bryson. i finally got around to reading this. it is the great travel writer's effort to educate himself and all of us on ...

Terrorist. fredricka, what we are really seeing here is just how invaluable the digital footprint has come when it comes to these kind of investigations. they are the first company to come out with these reports. they have previously published government requests and transparency reports. they haven't contained information related to these type of requests. transparency is the word we keep hearing. we are hearing from silicon valley companies that are coming out and requesting a conversation surrounding government requests for this type of information. >> i spoke to a big silicon valley founde...

A grand jury subpoena or search warrant in a criminal matter or national security letter, this is the kind of stuff we're going to see in these reports. you know, also, the publication, they say will show that a small number of accounts are subject to legal process, so i think what they want us to realize and what some of the transparency is going to do is show us that the government isn't just getting access to all facebook accounts. it is a very small number of accounts that's being affected. >> what about other tech giants like microsoft or google? >> we're hearing more and more. so microso...

Information. they are handing over everything i put online to the government right now. >> what is the point of having a password to anything. very fascinating. even after that where they had twitter coming out and facebook said a lot of times they put out transparency reports and this is what the government asks us for and this is what they ask us for and facebook says we don't bother. if we had this gag order on all of this, anything we give you is basically lying. we don't want to lie to people, you shouldn't be lying either. most of this stuff came through the lawyers and google their chie...