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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's assertion that the Indian government had exerted pressure on the platform to remove the accounts of farmers, journalists and other critics from the platform during protests by farmers a couple of years ago has embarrassed the Centre and made it issue a furious denial.
In a rebuttal to former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey claim wherein he alleged that the Indian government threatened to shut the microblogging portal the Bharatiya
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey in sensational allegations claimed the Indian government threatened to shut down Twitter unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts during farmers' protests, a charge denied by the government on Tuesday as an "outright lie".
New Delhi, June 13: American political news and opinion series Breaking Points has made headlines in India for its controversial interview on former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who in an exploratory remark, claimed that India had put pressure on the micro-blogging platform.
"No one went to jail nor was Twitter 'shutdown'," Chandrasekhar said. "This is an outright lie by @jack - perhaps an attempt to brush out that very dubious period of Twitter's history."