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Certain “slander campaigns” on social media are equal to a “terrorist attack,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Wednesday, days after a law came into force that imposes jail time for spreading what the authorities consider false news. “Lie and slander campaigns which target our country’s interests, our nation’s values, our people’s confidentiality are a sort of terrorist attack,” Erdoğan told his ruling party members in Ankara. The new media law, passed in parliament last week, sets down up to three years in jail for the dissemination of “false information” about the country’s se…