Turkey: police investigate false online rumours that Erdoğan has died

Twitter users investigated for sharing disinformation and manipulative content"

Thirty people are facing legal proceedings after Turkish police launched an investigation into the spread of rumours on social media that President Recep Tayyip Erdoan had died.

Twitter users who posted under the trending hashtag olmu" - roughly is said to be dead" - were being investigated for sharing disinformation and manipulative content", a police statement issued on Wednesday said.