Twitter Said to Have Complied With MeitY’s Final Notice

Social media platform Twitter has complied with the ultimate discover issued by the Ministry of Electronics and IT on June 27, an official supply mentioned on Monday.

The Ministry of Electronics and IT had set a deadline of July 4, failing which Twitter might have misplaced the middleman standing, which implies it is going to be answerable for all of the feedback posted on its platform.

“Twitter has complied with the notice,” an official supply advised PTI on the situation of anonymity.

According to a different official supply, the social media agency was requested to take motion on some tweets and Twitter accounts however the microblogging had not reported compliance on the identical earlier.

Twitter declined to touch upon the matter.

The authorities in May had requested Twitter to behave on content material associated to Khalistan and accounts eulogising terrorists in Kashmir. Later in June, the federal government requested Twitter to behave on round 60 accounts.

According to sources, Twitter has taken motion on the request and reported compliance.

On June 26, the microblogging website submitted a separate checklist of over 80 Twitter accounts and tweets that it has blocked primarily based on a request from the federal government in 2021.

The request from the federal government was to dam a number of accounts and a few tweets from the worldwide advocacy group Freedom House, journalists, politicians and supporters of the farmers’ protest.

As reported beforehand, Twitter was allegedly ordered by the Indian authorities in 2021 to dam 2020 tweets by Freedom House in India that reported the declining Internet freedom within the nation. The social media firm is alleged to have solely enforced the order on in June. It additionally blocked some tweets and/ or handles of varied different customers who’re mentioned to be important of the India authorities. Various customers have shared screenshots of emails they obtained from the microblogging platform explaining that the content material they shared has been blocked in India. Furthermore, some auxiliary accounts of customers have shared screenshots which learn that their accounts have been “withheld in India in response to a legal demand.” However, in some circumstances Twitter has not taken any motion after a elimination request from the Government of India.


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