Narendra Modi’s government calls accusation by social media firm’s former CEO an ‘outright lie’
India threatened to shut Twitter down unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts critical of the government’s handling of farmer protests, the social media platform’s co-founder Jack Dorsey has said, an accusation Narendra Modi’s government denied.
India’s deputy minister for information technology, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, responded by calling Dorsey’s assertions an “outright lie”. Modi and his ministers are prolific users of Twitter, but free speech activists say his administration resorts to excessive censorship of any criticism. According totransparency reports, legal demands made by the Modi government to remove content from Twitter increased by 48,000% between 2014 and 2020.
There was outrage after hundreds of Twitter accounts that had mentioned the protests, including those of prominent journalists and news websites, were suspended at the request of the Modi government.after Twitter restored most of the accounts, citing “insufficient justification” and refused to take down a further 1,100 accounts allegedly spreading “misinformation”, at the government’s request.
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