Delhi police said they visited a Twitter office to serve notice to its country managing director about an investigation into the social media giant s tagging of a post by a ruling party spokesman as "manipulated media."
Tensions between Twitter India s branch and Modi s administration have been brewing for months
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May 25, 2021
A limited number of users around the world who tweet in English can now add a Tip Jar feature to their profiles. PHOTO: AFP
Indian police said on Monday they visited a Twitter office to serve notice to its country managing director about an investigation into the social media giant s tagging of a post by a ruling party spokesman as manipulated media .
Leaders of Prime Minister Narendra Modi s Bharatiya Janata Party last week shared portions of a document on Twitter they said was created by the main opposition Congress and highlighted government failures in handling the Covid-19 pandemic.
Hindu American Foundation via Facebook
The Hindu American Foundation advocacy group said, earlier this month, that it was suing four activists, academic Audrey Truschke, and a journalist for two articles published in
Al Jazeera that it claims are defamatory.
The lawsuit has sparked a debate over free speech in the US, with hundreds of activists and scholars criticising the defamation case and standing in solidarity with those named in it.
The
Al Jazeeraarticles, published in April, said that federal Covid-19 relief funding amounting to $833,000 had been given to the Hindu American Foundation and four other US foundations which, the reports alleged, had “ ties to Hindu supremacist and religious groups”.
Indian police said on Monday they visited a Twitter office to serve notice to its country managing director about an investigation into the social media
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