Govt asks Twitter to block some tweets critical of its Covid handling, Twitter complies partially
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Govt asks Twitter to block some tweets critical of its Covid handling, Twitter complies partially
After the central government sent a notice to Twitter asking that action be taken against tweets talking about the government’s handling of Covid, Twitter has blocked several of them.
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IT ministry asks social media cos to remove more posts, alleges content ‘spreading misinformation’ about Covid-19
The latest communication was sent by MeitY was based on recommendations of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), which flagged these URLs as “communally sensitive”.
Twitter has pulled down at least 50 tweets at the behest of the Indian government, criticising it for the poor handling of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
The data available on Lumen database shows that the micro-blogging platform has deleted more than 50 tweets that belonged to people like Revanth Reddy, an MP from Telangana; Moloy Ghatak, a West Bengal state minister; two filmmakers; an actor and others. The government had sent an emergency order to Twitter to remove these tweets.
So they have time for this. But no time for oxygen availability.