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Twitter India is fishing in troubled waters since it marked tweets of BJP ministers as “manipulated media”. Responding to the recent Delhi Police raid to its IT office, the microblogging platform on Thursday (May 27) said that it is deeply committed to the people of India. 

Highlights It called Twitter’s conduct obfuscatory, diversionary Twitter had called Delhi Police visit a form of intimidation New Delhi: Hours after social media major Twitter released a statement citing a threat to freedom of expression and intimidation by the authorities, the Delhi Police on Thursday (May 27) rebutted the claims and made counter-allegations of their own. Calling the conduct of Twitter obfuscatory, diversionary and tendentious, the Delhi Police said that the statements relea...

Amid the ongoing "toolkit" row, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said the parliamentary panel on information and technology had written to the IT ministry over its communication with Twitter on the ''manipulated media" issue and received a reply on it.

BJP leaders, including Patra, have posted numerous tweets to attack Congress over the purported 'toolkit'. On May 19, the Congress lodged a police complaint seeking registration of cases against BJP chief JP Nadda, Union minister Smriti Irani, BJP general secretary B L Santosh and Patra over the alleged forgery of documents.

Duo told to join probe into party’s complaint

In escalating action in the "Congress toolkit" controversy, two Congress leaders who complained against BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra's "toolkit" tweet have been served notice by the Delhi Police.

URL copied Toolkit row: Two Congress leaders asked to join probe by Delhi Police The Delhi Police has served notices to two Congress leaders, asking them to join the probe in the partys toolkit that aimed to defame the Modi government over its alleged mismanagement during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic in the country. The two leaders are Rajiv Gowda and Rohan Gupta. Notably, Gowda and Gupta had earlier filed a complaint against BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra after he accused the grand o...

Source: Highlights Delhi Police has sent a notice to Twitter over manipulated media tag related to Congress toolkit It has asked Twitter to remove the tag as the matter is pending investigation before a law enforcement agency. New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Monday said that it has sent notice to Twitter in connection with a probe over "manipulated media" tag used with some of the posts on an alleged Congress "toolkit" against Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government. The Delhi Police Specia...

The Delhi Polices Special Cell teams raided the offices of Twitter India in Delhi and Gurgaon on Monday evening in connection with the probe into the alleged COVID toolkit matter, officials said. Two teams of Special Cell were at the Twitter India offices located in Delhis Lado Sarai and Gurgaon, on the outskirts of the national capital, a senior police officer said. The visits were in connection with the probe into the toolkit matter, he said. "The Delhi police team went to Twitter offices...