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Outrage as Twitter deletes tweets critical of India’s Covid approach By Chelsea Lotz Share Cape Town – Twitter has been slammed for withholding hundreds of tweets critical of the Covid-19 crisis. According to senators and human rights campaigners, the suspension of scores of tweets deemed critical of the Indian government's treatment of the coronavirus pandemic endangers people's health and stifles dissent, reported the Guardian. Lumen from Harvard University, a website that maintains track of global government orders around online content, says that the Indian government has sent a...

“Not a surprise. But terrifying nonetheless.” That’s how Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein responded Sunday to news that India had requested — and Twitter had agreed — to have numerous tweets critical of the Modi government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic blocked from the popular social media platform. The Indian news outlet Buzzfeed in U.S. press. According to Medianama’s reporting by Aroon Deep and Aditya Chunduru: Twitter has complied with government requests to censor 52 tweets that mostly criticised India’s handling of the second surge of the COVID-19 pandemi...

The Indian government asked social media platform Twitter to take down dozens of tweets, including some by local legislators, that were critical of India’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, as cases of COVID-19 again hit a world record. Twitter has withheld some of the tweets after the legal request by the Indian government, a company spokeswoman told the Reuters news agency on Saturday. The government made an emergency order to censor the tweets, Twitter disclosed on Lumen database, a Harvard University project. In the government’s legal request, dated April 23 and disclosed on Lumen...

Coronavirus-mired country makes emergency order to censor dissentious posts A woman takes care of her husband who has Covid-19 as they wait outside the casualty ward at Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, in New Delhi, India. Reuters  Family members mourn after a man is declared dead amid a surge in coronavirus cases in India. Reuters A patient with breathing problems is seen inside a car while waiting to enter a hospital for treatment, amid the spread of the coronavirus in Ahmedabad, India. Reuters India’s second Covid-19 wave is devastating, with more than new 200,000 coronavirus cases re...

India Cases of COVID-19 have again hit a world record in India, as the Government approached Twitter to take down critical tweets. Twitter has withheld some of the tweets after the legal request by the Indian government, a company spokeswoman told Reuters on Saturday. In the government's legal request, dated April 23 and disclosed on Lumen, 21 tweets were mentioned. Among them were tweets from a lawmaker named Revnath Reddy, a minister in the state of West Bengal named Moloy Ghatak and a filmmaker named Avinash Das. Hong Kong and Singapore Hong Kong and Singapore will announce a May 26 start ...