Govt asks Twitter to drop ‘manipulated media’ tag from toolkit tweets

The ministry of electronics and information technology has sent a strongly worded notice to microblogging platform Twitter, for affixing the manipulated media tag to “tweets made by Indian political leaders with reference to a toolkit created to undermine, derail and demean the efforts of the Government against the Covid-19 pandemic”.

An official familiar with the matter said that in its communication, the ministry has stated that a complaint has already been made by one of the concerned parties before local law enforcement and the veracity of the toolkit is under investigation.

The ministry has stated that Twitter’s decision to use the manipulated media tag appears “prejudged and prejudiced.” “While the local law enforcement agency is undertaking the investigation to determine the veracity of the ‘tookit’,