India asks Twitter to take down some tweets critical of its COVID-19 handling
By Kanishka Singh
(Reuters) – The Indian authorities requested social media platform Twitter to take down dozens of tweets, along with some by native lawmakers, that had been critical of India’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, as situations of COVID-19 as soon as extra hit a world doc.
Twitter has withheld some of the tweets after the licensed request by the Indian authorities, a corporation spokeswoman suggested Reuters on Saturday.
The authorities made an emergency order to censor the tweets, Twitter disclosed on Lumen database, a Harvard University endeavor.
In the federal authorities’s licensed request, dated April 23 and disclosed on Lumen, 21 tweets had been talked about. Among them had been tweets from a lawmaker named Revnath Reddy, a minister throughout the state of West Bengal named Moloy Ghatak and a filmmaker named Avinash Das.
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