India orders Twitter to take down tweets critical of its coronavirus handling [View all]
Source: Yahoo Finance
Twitter has taken down dozens of tweets in India, some of which were critical of New Delhi's handling of the coronavirus, to comply with an emergency order from the Indian government.
New Delhi made an emergency order to Twitter to censor over 50 tweets in the country, Twitter disclosed on Lumen database. The social network has complied with the request, and withheld those tweets from users in India.
TechCrunch has learned that Twitter is not the only platform affected by the new order. Facebook didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
India, which has also previously ordered Twitter to take down some tweets and accounts critical of its policies and threatened jail time to employees in the event of non-compliance, comes as the country reports a record of over 330,000 new covid cases a day, the worst by any country. News reports suggest that even this number is underreported.
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