Turkish Beef With Social Media Gets Louder After Facebook Outage

Facebook Inc.’s massive outage on Monday spurred calls for a new digital “order” by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a man with little tolerance for political criticism on social media.

Erdogan’s communications director Fahrettin Altun said the hours-long shutdown showed how “fragile” social networks are, and urged a rapid development of “domestic and national” alternatives.

“The problem we have seen showed us how our data are in danger, how quickly and easily our social liberties can be limited,” Altun said Tuesday in a series of posts on Twitter.

Turkey’s political leaders have had strained relations with social media ...