India Coronavirus: Centre Says Twitter Posts Deleted For Spreading Fake News, Not Criticism

Twitter said account holders had been notified via emails linked to their registered account.
New Delhi:
Twitter has deleted a number of tweets flagged by the centre as spreading "fake news" about the Covid pandemic, sources have said.
According to a report by technology policy news platform MediaNama, the censored messages include posts by Congress Lok Sabha MP Revanth Reddy, Bengal minister Moloy Ghatak, actor Vineet Kumar Singh and two filmmakers - Vinod Kapri and Avinash Das.
A Twitter spokesperson confirmed the deletion of tweets and said, "action has been taken in response to a legal request from the Government of India".

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