View: When platforms like Twitter shift from ‘intermediary’ to behave like ‘editors' SECTIONS Last Updated: May 26, 2021, 11:51 PM IST Share Synopsis During the US presidential elections last year, Twitter had labelled many Donald Trump tweets ‘manipulated’, before taking down the former president’s account permanently. Such an action may have emboldened it to engage in such labelling in other geographies. There have been many occasions when platforms like Twitter have indeed crossed their role as an ‘intermediary’, to behave as an ‘editor’. AFP Commentator on digital policy issues Delhi Police landing up at Twitter’s Delhi and Gurgaon offices on Monday afternoon during a city-wide Covid lockdown when the social media company’s employees were working from home is, to put it mildly, strange. Whether it was to serve another notice — Delhi Police has reportedly already served two notices and stated that this latest action was ‘routine procedure’ — or to gather extra information on Twitter tagging a tweet by a BJP spokesperson on an alleged Congress ‘toolkit’ as ‘manipulated media’, the step was uncalled for.