The authorities has issued a discover to Twitter to adjust to all its previous orders by July 4, an official supply stated on Wednesday. The Ministry of Electronics and IT has set a deadline of July 4, failing which Twitter might lose middleman standing, which suggests it will likely be accountable for all of the feedback posted on its platform.

“A notice was issued on June 27 to Twitter to comply with all government orders issued till date. Twitter was issued notices earlier this month but it did not comply with it. This is the final notice,” a authorities supply informed PTI.

An e-mail question despatched to Twitter elicited no fast response.

Twitter has been at loggerheads with the federal government on a number of events.

On June 26, the microblogging website submitted an inventory 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.

The authorities supply, nonetheless, stated that there are a number of different orders, with which Twitter is but to conform and so they have been given a ultimate deadline of July 4 for compliance.

The requests from the federal government had been despatched between January 5, 2021, and December 29, 2021, based on the doc filed with the Lumen database.

Leading web corporations like Google, Facebook and Twitter file data with the Lumen database about weblinks or accounts that they’ve been requested to dam by any entity beneath relevant legal guidelines.

However, particulars about whether or not the request to dam a hyperlink or account was fulfilled should not out there on the database.

International group Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the federal government’s transfer to dam tweets of journalists — Rana Ayyub and CJ Werleman.