India asks Twitter to take down some tweets critical of its COVID-19 handling
By Kanishka Singh
Reuters
(Reuters) - The Indian government asked social media platform Twitter to take down dozens of tweets, including some by local lawmakers, that were critical of India s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, as cases of COVID-19 again hit a world record.
Twitter has withheld some of the tweets after the legal request by the Indian government, a company spokeswoman told Reuters on Saturday.
The government made an emergency order to censor the tweets, Twitter disclosed on Lumen database, a Harvard University project.
In the government s legal request, dated April 23 and disclosed on Lumen, 21 tweets were mentioned. Among them were tweets from a lawmaker named Revnath Reddy, a minister in the state of West Bengal named Moloy Ghatak and a filmmaker named Avinash Das.
India asks Twitter to take down some tweets critical of its COVID-19 handling
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