Video Satirizing Turkish PM 'Erdowie, Erdowo, Erdogan' Goes Viral After Censorship Attempts

  • by: Maarten Schenk

Turkey contacted Germany's ambassador to demand something gets done about a video from NDR's satircal show 'extra 3' mocking Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his attitude towards press freedom. Mr. Erdoğan is about to find out the hard way about the well known Streisand Effect:

the phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the Internet.


  Maarten Schenk

Maarten Schenk is the co-founder and COO/CTO of Lead Stories and an expert on fake news and hoax websites. He likes to go beyond just debunking trending fake news stories and is endlessly fascinated by the dazzling variety of psychological and technical tricks used by the people and networks who intentionally spread made-up things on the internet.

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