Congress toolkit tweets: Govt tells Twitter to remove ‘manipulated media’ tag

The government and microblogging site Twitter seem to be headed for a second confrontation, with the ministry of electronics and IT (MeitY) writing to the latter to remove the ‘manipulated media’ tag for tweets on an alleged Congress toolkit used to target the Centre over its Covid-19 handling.

According to sources, the government has asked Twitter to remove the tag as the matter is pending before a law enforcement agency, and so, it wasn’t proper for the social media platform to pass judgment when the issue was under investigation.