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Twitter stated on Thursday it was anxious about the safety of its staff in India, days after police visited its office as half of a probe associated to the social media agency’s tagging of some ruling occasion posts as manipulated.
Indian police on Monday visited a Twitter office to serve a discover to the micro-blogging agency’s nation head for a probe into its tagging of a tweet by a ruling occasion spokesman as “manipulated media.”
Without straight referring to the Delhi police motion, Twitter stated: “We, alongside many in civil society in India and round the world, have considerations with reference to the use of intimidation ways by the police in response to enforcement of our international Terms of Service.”
Leaders of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party lately shared parts of a doc on Twitter they stated was created by the predominant opposition Congress occasion and highlighted authorities failures in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.
Congress complained to Twitter saying the doc was pretend, after which Twitter marked some of the posts as “manipulated media.”
Delhi Police declined to remark.
Twitter has been battling with the Indian authorities since February after the know-how ministry requested it to dam content material alleging Modi’s administration was making an attempt to silence criticism associated to farmer protests in the nation.
Following that showdown, India introduced new IT guidelines that purpose to make social media corporations extra accountable to authorized requests for swift elimination of posts. On Thursday, Twitter urged the know-how ministry to offer it three extra months to adjust to the new content material regulation guidelines, which embrace the appointment of an Indian grievance officer to take care of complaints. Twitter stated it was very concerned the guidelines made the compliance officer criminally responsible for content material on the platform, including the transfer represented a harmful overreach.
India’s know-how ministry didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The new IT guidelines have spurred authorized battles, together with a lawsuit filed by Facebook-owned WhatsApp this week which calls out India’s authorities for exceeding its authorized powers by enacting guidelines that can power the messaging app to interrupt end-to-end message encryption.
