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Published: 02 July 2021
With increased deliberations on the fate of the Brotherhood media platforms operating in Turkey, and the steps that Turkey may take to stop those platforms floating on the surface, a series of questions are asked about the internal implications of the Brotherhood media platforms,
If those guarantees are commensurate with the general charters and determinants of universal freedom of expression, which set forth a spectrum of limitations on not considering incitement to violence, sowing the seeds of hatred, spreading slurs and rumours as part of media freedom of expression, but as a criminal offense that could be held to account.
Here, the most effective characteristic of these contents is the deliberate conflation of words, words, examples of identity and religious character with the political content to be promoted through these platforms, in order to benefit from the religious feelings and imagination of the wider social base of followers.
Politically, the content of these platforms is not only to direct some criticism and analysis of that party's behaviour and policies, but also to reject the legitimacy and structure of the political system of the State being targeted.
Thus, this rejection is mechanically transformed into a mechanism for radical political and ideological incitement to the targets, and an insatiable call for violence. In the political dictionary used in fraternal platforms, there is a permanent division of States and political systems into two entirely opposite rugs, which you see as legitimate and right, surrounded by all manner of aura and reverence, and a counterpart that you regard as a loss of legitimacy.
But the most important advantage of news platforms is the intensification of the amount of news circulating, a mechanism aimed at flooding followers with a vast body of transmitted information, whose credibility is difficult to ascertain, and thus what they want to do is influence the recipient, albeit relatively at first, but which they can do in the end by accumulating those content.