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Twitter Deletes Tweets Criticising Modi Government Over COVID Crisis Apr 25, 2021, 13:06 IST
The central government is facing a lot of slack for the way they handled this pandemic and the decisions taking during this time. Indians are angry and are expressing their disappointment through social media.
While most of the tweets made by the common man are present, Twitter deleted few posts that were by opposition parties. In these posts, the leaders were criticizing the BJP government for the way the situation panned out.
A total of 50 tweets were deleted including those by Congress MP Revanth Reddy, Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera and West Bengal Minister Moly Ghatak. These posts mainly spoke about the handling of Covid19 by the Modi government and the Kumbh Mela Failure.
Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera. | Pawan Khera/Twitter
Congress leader Pawan Khera on Sunday sent a legal notice to Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and social media platform Twitter for taking down his April 12 tweet on the surge of Covid-19 cases. The tweet had questioned the “complete silence” of the Union government in allowing the Kumbh Mela and election rallies to take place despite the worsening coronavirus situation in India.
Twitter has reportedly removed 52 posts from its platform after the Narendra Modi government claimed they were spreading “fake news” about its handling of the pandemic and sent legal request to the platform to withhold some of the tweets. The majority of these tweets were critical of the Centre’s handling of the crisis as the second wave in India has led to states grappling with shortages of hospital beds, oxygen, medicines and vaccine doses.
The logo of the social networking website Twitter, displayed on a smart-phone screen. | AFP
Complying with the Centre’s request, Twitter has taken down 52 tweets, most of which were critical of India’s handling of the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, technology policy portal
Medianama reported on Saturday.
The tweets, which are no longer accessible in India, include those posted by Congress MP Revanth Reddy, West Bengal minister Moloy Ghatak, actor Vineet Kumar Singh and filmmakers Vinod Kapri and Avinash Das. Kapri has confirmed to
Medianama about the action taken by Twitter, while another user Peter Friedrich, took to the micro-blogging platform to post the mail sent to him about the censorship.
As COVID-19 Crisis Deepens, Twitter Takes Down Some Pandemic Tweets on Govt s Request
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