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Not aligned with US view: WH on Indias Twitter order Not aligned with US view: WH on Indias Twitter order Last Updated: Tue, Apr 27th, 2021, 10:21:35hrs New Delhi: Days after Twitter and other social media platforms removed content related to the COVID-19 pandemic in India following a government order, the White House said the move was not aligned with Americas view of freedom of speech around the world. Twitter and other social media platforms have taken down around 100 posts and URLs after th...

It’s Not Just About 50 Tweets and One Platform This new normal involves hoping technology companies and digital platforms will be transparent, even as we criticize them for not confronting executive overreach. Photo: Reuters/Illustration by The Wire Tech1 hour ago As SOS calls and sobering visuals of the plight of COVID-19 patients and their caregivers inundate social media platforms and messaging apps, spending time on them is equivalent to flitting between heart-wrenching tales of hards...

Read more about Govts takedown request to Twitter remains a talk point through weekend on Business Standard. While Medianama reported that Twitter complied with govt requests and censored 52 tweets, the posts have been withheld in India only

India Asks Twitter to Block Posts Critical of Virus Handling Bloomberg 3 hrs ago Suvashree Ghosh © Bloomberg A healthcare worker pushes a trolley for transporting oxygen tanks outside a temporary hospital for Covid-19 patients at a stadium in New Delhi, India, on Friday, April 23, 2021. Bodies piling up at crematoriums and burial grounds across India are sparking concerns that the death toll from a ferocious new Covid-19 wave may be much higher than official records, underp...

Twitter censors tweets critical of Indias COVID response dw.com 2 hrs ago © Provided by dw.com A body of a COVID victim is prepared for cremation in Delhi Twitter on Saturday said it took down dozens of tweets in India that were critical of the Indian governments recent pandemic response, as a second wave of COVID infections continues to bring the countrys healthcare system to its knees. Over 20 tweets, some from local lawmakers, were reportedly withheld from public view in India in respo...

Twitter censors tweets critical of Indias COVID response The Indian government requested Twitter take down dozens of tweets critical of the countrys pandemic response, which has drawn global attention as case numbers and deaths continue surging to record levels. A body of a COVID victim is prepared for cremation in Delhi Twitter on Saturday said it took down dozens of tweets in India that were critical of the Indian governments recent pandemic response, as a second wave of COVID infections con...

India Asks Twitter to Block Posts Critical of Virus Handling Bloomberg 1 hour ago Suvashree Ghosh © Bloomberg A healthcare worker pushes a trolley for transporting oxygen tanks outside a temporary hospital for Covid-19 patients at a stadium in New Delhi, India, on Friday, April 23, 2021. Bodies piling up at crematoriums and burial grounds across India are sparking concerns that the death toll from a ferocious new Covid-19 wave may be much higher than official records, under...

New Delhi: Twitter Inc. has removed or restricted access to more than 50 posts in the past one month at the behest of the Indian government, including tweets that criticised its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the Indian Express newspaper reported. Other posts that were removed showed pictures and videos of a recent attack in Chhattisgarh carried out by Maoist guerrillas, the paper reported, citing disclosures made by the social media platform to the Lumen Database, which collects and ana...

‘We really need to do more’: US ships vaccine raw materials to India We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Paul Schemm and Claire Parker April 26, 2021 — 7.37am Save Normal text size Advertisement Dubai: The United States has pledged to send vaccine materials and other medical relief to India, which is enduring the largest coronavirus outbreak of the entire pandemic, and running out beds, oxygen and testing kits. The National ...

WHAT’S HIDING BEHIND THE FAKE DMCA COMPLAINTS? In the last months, one of Qurium’s research questions has been to understand how the domains registered by Eliminalia have been used to remove content from Google search results. Our first quick finding was to see that hundreds of their domains were copying articles from legitimate news media in an automatic fashion, skipping the content that their clients found uncomfortable. Two of Qurium’s hosted websites were used by the clones, that pul...