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New Delhi: The government rebuked Twitter on Wednesday for not complying with its orders to take down over 1,300 accounts and warned the social media giant that it needs to obey local laws. Several BJP leaders doubled down on the message as they urged their followers to switch to Twitter s home-grown rival Koo. The government has ordered Twitter to remove accounts and posts that it alleges are spreading misinformation about the farmers protests against new agricultural laws. Twitter said in a public blog post that it had not fully complied with the government s o
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Koo is an Indian version of the microblogging app Twitter | Image credit: Reuters
What is Koo and why is the Indian government joining it? And what does it have to do with Twitter?
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On Tuesday, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal shared an invite with his followers on Twitter to join a new microblogging social media site called Koo. Soon after that, several ministers and ministries, as well as the others, shared invites to join Koo.