Erdogan continues to crackdown on free speech, targeting social media users.Social media is taking a double hit in Turkey, under Erdogan's rule.Facebook and Twitter are already censorsing of "fake news" (meaning any publication that is not establishment media or liberal left ideology).Erdogan is also cracking down on social media free speech, implementing his own "fake news" censoring policy.In the last six months Turkish authorities have arrested 1,656 people accused of supporting terrorist organizations or insulting government officials on social media. After a coup failed to unseat him in July, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared a state of emergency and began purging officials, soldiers, teachers, police and judges who were perceived as "anti-government". Image copyright EPA Image caption Internet use was disrupted in Turkey after this man killed Andrey Karlov, Russia's ambassador to Ankara

Image copyright AFP/Getty Images Image caption Turkey's Interior Minister, Suleyman Soylu, speaks to journalists after the ambassador's killing

Activists and foreign powers have raised repeated concerns about repression in Turkey since the summer. Reports suggest Twitter and YouTube have also slowed down since Thursday, when a video emerged allegedly showing two Turkish soldiers being burned alive by the so-called Islamic State.
Turkey probes around 10,000 social media users for allegedly insulting government officials or supporting "terror-related activity."