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Government says ordered takedown of fake Covid-19 posts only, not the ones criticising us
The Indian government has ordered Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube to remove over 100 posts and URLs in a fresh order.
Shubham Verma | April 26, 2021 | Updated 13:39 IST
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The previous Twitter takedown was not meant for posts critical of the government.
The government has ordered Twitter, Facebook, YouTube to take down over 100 posts and URLs.
Last week, the Indian government ordered Twitter to remove posts that were critical of its handling of the Covid-19 crisis. Twitter hid as many as 50 tweets from public viewing in India, informing users about the action that was taken to comply with India s IT Act, on the government s directive. A large chunk of these posts criticised how the Modi government is tackling the outbreak. The IT Ministry has now clarified that it ordered the takedown of only those posts that were found spreading misinformation around Covid-19.
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Outrage as Twitter deletes tweets critical of Indiaâs Covid approach
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Cape Town â 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 an emergency order to censor the tweets.
The tweets were blocked in India following a legal request from New Delhi, months after similar action was taken in response to criticism of the government s new agriculture rules, which triggered violent protests.
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“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.
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Twitter has complied with government requests to censor 52 tweets that mostly criticised India’s handling of the second surge of the COVID-19 pandemic. These tweets, which are now inaccessible to Indian users of the social media website, include posts by Revanth Reddy, a sitting Member of Parliament; Moloy Ghatak, a West Bengal state minister; actor Vineet Kumar Singh; and two filmmakers, Vinod Kapri and Avinash Das.
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