Meta(Facebook) Turkey Executives Made a Statement in the Parliament

It recently went through a name change. explaining Turkey managers of Meta (formerly Facebook), Parliamentary Digital Media CommissionThey attended and made some statements. Meta’s Director in charge of Turkey Azzam Alameddin and Meta Turkey and Azerbaijan Public Policy Director Sezen GreenIn the meetings held with the participation of , remarkable issues were discussed.

Senior Meta executives, who held a question and answer event with the names of the Digital Media Commission, on whether to open a representative office They also answered the question. Also speaking about fake news, the authorities also touched upon Selcuk Bayraktar’s post, which was removed from Instagram. If you wish, you can immediately answer the questions asked at the Digital Media Commission and Meta’s questions. how you answer let’s see.

“We find the fight against disinformation very important”

The following statements were included in the statements made by Sezen Yeşil:

We find the fight against disinformation very important. We take a remove, reduce and inform approach. If there is unfounded news, if it is decided to disinformation, we do not remove this news, we reduce its visibility. people about it we inform…

Azzam Alameddin”Will a representative office be opened in Turkey?‘ in response to the question:

Our company thinks as follows for representation in Turkey; Turkey is very important for our company, opening an office here is not only because we have a lot of users here and We decided to be on the field. Now. The operations and projects in Turkey are looked at, the policy, management framework and infrastructure system are looked at, and then it is decided to open an office. There is no such thing as having a physical person on the field will solve the problems in Turkey. Our aim is If you have a need, we would like to meet it.We are always open to mutual dialogue. We also have collaborations with other public institutions, we tell them, mutual dialogue is very important to us. When we say representative office Madoka company already here. I have Sezen next to me, she will be your point of contact here. But our legal representative is Ozan, who is Madoka’s lawyer.

Azzam Alameddin’s answer to the question about Selçuk Bayraktar’s post, which was removed from Instagram, is as follows;

Palestine, that’s my territory. Since I started working with meta that area is my responsibility. We always know that this process may not be one hundred percent accurate. But we will try to do the right thing. We will always keep improving. There may have been mistakes. There were mistakes in the Palestinian case. There was an automation error, the hashtag was blocked. This automation it was a mistake. When the hashtag was blocked, all posts related to Al Aqsa Mosque were also blocked automatically. It was a mistake, as I said, an automation error. Now these errors have started to decrease. Later, with this block, the system got a little confused. I’m talking about Instagram, by the way. Now, let’s say you shared a content on Instagram, if it is not original, the way of communication of Instagram is as follows; want to focus more on original content. So you share, you share, and when that happens, it can sometimes lower the priority order. This problem has doubled in Al Aksa Mosque. The automation problem has doubled. After the Palestine incident, we took a series of actions. We have taken many steps to better develop our automation system…