Twitter can either follow local laws or risk being shut down: Elon Musk after meeting Modi

Twitter can just ensure as much freedom of speech on its platform as the local laws in any country permit, the owner of the social media platform Elon Musk said after a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New York on Wednesday.

Musk did not dismiss Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey’s recent allegation that the company had been asked during the 2020-2021 farmers agitation to take down from the micro-blogging platform content criticising the Government of India and had even been threatened with raids and shutdowns in case of non-compliance.