Twitter Further Explains Why It Restricted Content Leading up to Turkey’s Election

A picture representing a mugshot of the Twitter bird is seen on a smartphone with a Turkish flag on March 26, 2014. Ozan Kose/AFP via Getty Images

Twitter on Monday shared further details about why it restricted access to certain content in Turkey ahead of the country’s election, which took place on May 14.

The election is headed to a runoff scheduled for May 28 after neither of the two top contenders got more than 50 percent of the vote.